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...theological superstars like Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich hammered out modern definitions of God and the Christian life in Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. But Union has fallen on troubled days lately, caught up in inflation, problems of faculty and student recruitment and divergent opinions on the direction the school should be taking [TIME, Oct. 9, 1972]. One more sign of that uncertainty appeared this month, when Episcopal Bishop J. Brooke Mosley, 58, after 3½ years as Union's president, announced his decision to resign...
...Auden soon found the crisis theology of Reinhold Niebuhr. It was a grim neo-Calvinism in which God is Wholly Other and man's individual guilt and anxiety can be submerged (if not assuaged) by a crushing awareness of general human depravity and the resultant difficulty in finding grace. In his most famous single work, The Age of Anxiety (for which, in 1948, he became the first foreign-born poet ever to win the Pulitzer Prize), he offered a repetitive, four-character charade running through all the ages and spiritual stages of modern man. Few are charming, none...
...culmination in the secular theology of Harvey Cox and the pragmatic style of John F. Kennedy is right on the mark even as it is somewhat more caustic than either deserves. In The Secular City, Cox carried the theology of Reinhold Niehbur one step too far. Like Niebuhr, Cox recognized the need for "toughness" in the face of the 20th Century challenges. But unlike Niehbuhr who endorsed pragmatism with fear and trembling. Cox embraced it with enormous enthusiasm...
Several secondary factors have also contributed to the decline of the liberal schools. They have come to the end of the era of such theological stars as Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich. They are no longer deluged with draft dodgers and dissidents-or even the great numbers of social activists-who swelled their enrollments in the late '60s, while the evangelical schools have begun to reap a rich harvest from the Jesus movement. Union and Chicago are also losing out on new students because of their crime-ridden urban locations...
...list I submitted consisted of persons of acknowledged fairness and distinction, men and women such as William Alfred, Kenneth Arrow, Stanley Cavell, John Edsall, Roy Glauber, Albert Hirschmann, Doris Kearns, Edward Keenan, Martin Kilson, Harry Levin, Stephen Marglin, Juan Marichal, John Mansfield, Jean Mayer, Frank Michelman, Richard Niebuhr, Richard Pipes, Charles Price, Edward Purcell, Lee Rainwater, John Rawls, Benjamin Schwartz, Laurence Wylie, George Wald, George Williams, John Womack, Lloyd Weigreb and Adam Ulam. To claim that the known results of the previous election in no way influenced the fact that none of the above persons received more votes than...