Word: niebuhr
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...medieval university, theology was queen of the curriculum, a position it lost-except at church-run schools-during the time of the Enlightenment. The new interest in religion on campus stems mostly from the 20th century Christian intellectual revolution that produced Karl Barth, Paul Tillich and the Niebuhr brothers, who proved that theology was relevant in the modern world...
...leading Evangelical theologians include Dr. Carl Henry, editor of Christianity Today, Cornelius Van Til of Westminster Theological Seminary, and Dean Kenneth S. Kantzer of the Trinity Evangelical School at Deerfield, Ill. They use the tools of modern Biblical scholarship, and read such progressive theologians as Rudolf Bultmann and Reinhold Niebuhr. But the Evangelicals insist that nothing is outdated about the traditional theological language of the church, or about belief in the Bible as the inspired word of God. "Once a person begins to doubt the accuracy of the Bible," says Kantzer, "he is on his way toward becoming a liberal...
...students at Union Theological Seminary who listened in "respectful mystification" to Paul Tillich, I offer a footnote to your excellent article [Oct. 29]. While Niebuhr may well have been the sparkplug in the action leading to Tillich's coming to Union, it could have been only the president of the seminary, the late Henry Sloane Coffin, who offered him the post. Much more interesting is how it was financed. The seminary's income in those days was low, and "Uncle Henry," as we called Dr. Coffin, could not suddenly provide a new faculty salary. The first-year salary...
...view was ministering to a parish in Detroit from 1915 to 1928. He saw the Ford Motor Co. as a devouring god Baal that dehumanized and depersonalized man, and Henry Ford I as a false prophet who "promised to solve all social problems but aggravated most of them." As Niebuhr saw it, Ford's boast of a $5-a-day wage was nothing but a sham, since most of his workers were employed only sporadically and had no insurance against unemployment, illness and old age. In the same pragmatic way, the slaughter of World War I made him turn...
From his qualms about society, which were strengthened by the "world depression and the rise of Nazi terror," Niebuhr derived his basic theological belief in the sinfulness of man, developed in his magnum opus The Nature and Destiny of Man. But Niebuhr did not construct an either-or theology, one that views man as living either in sin or in grace. His is a both-and theology, one that closely adheres to the Biblical conception of the paradoxical coexistence of sin and grace, good and evil. This strong reassertion of the central paradox of the Gospels, wrote...