Word: niebuhrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this strange age it has been left to the American Unitarian Association to descend to a level of theological discussion never reached in our knowledge by the most obscurantist fundamentalist sect. . . ." Reinhold Niebuhr was counterattacking in force...
...this week's issue of his intellectual quarterly Christianity & Society, neo-orthodoxy's Reinhold Niebuhr uncorked a reply that minced no words. "The animus of the [Unitarian] attack," he charged, "is primarily directed against the classical tradition of Christianity in any of its forms." Then he went on to a flat refutation of the Unitarian authors' two main theses-which, he said, revealed "the stupidity and the malice of the pamphlet...
...your issue of May 6 ... the Unitarians attribute to Professor Reinhold Niebuhr, among others, a conviction of "no hope for mankind on earth, but in heaven if you believe...
...This is] an interesting paradox: those who stand against a conviction of human sinfulness are here testifying through their own actions to the truth of the position they oppose. Professor Niebuhr, a strong "social gospel-ite," continually stresses man's "indeterminate possibilities" of goodness on earth, although . . . there is always the added warning that . . . the Kingdom of God ... is forever "beyond" the world...
...Futilitarian Christian gadflies like Professor Reinhold Niebuhr among the Protestants and Dr. Fulton J. Sheen among the Catholics are filling the air with their veiled terrestrial defeatism. No hope for mankind on earth but in heaven if you believe. . . . No, the leap into supernaturalism, which hungry hearts took two thousand years ago to compensate for their frustrations, is hardly proof to intelligent minds today of the existence of such a world...