Word: niebuhrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Have statistics got anything to do with religion? Not much, concludes Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, writing in the current issue of the Atlantic Monthly. U.S. Protestantism may not be losing ground numerically, but its religious vitality is slipping...
After nearly two hours, Reinhold Niebuhr, of the Union Theological Seminary, and The Reverend John A. O'Brien, S. J., head of the Boston College Department of Philosophy, had not locked horns on any significant issue, although the two of them had approached the problem from nearly every angle...
Avoiding a direct controversy, Niebuhr implied that numerous ambiguous areas in both Christianity and Communism were not mutually exclusive. He consistently took the historical slant on Communism, declaring that essentialy it was a protest against a Christian ethic which had made property the instrument of virtue...
...opposite viewpoint will have Niebuhr as a defender. Law Forum officials postulate that he will either claim that all Communism must not be equated with the Russian model and that forms of Communism not based on a police state are theoretically compatible with Christian theology, or else espouse the view that no political system should be required to lean on a theological system...
...Niebuhr is a leading exponent of liberal Protestantism and has authored many philosophical and religious works, including "An Interpretation of Christian Ethics" and "The Nature and Destiny of Man." He is a member of the national board of Americans for Democratic Action, a "liberal" but explicitly non-Communist group...