Word: niebuhrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Atomic Penitence. Not adopted by the Council was a much harder-hitting report on atomic warfare by 21 leading theologians, including the Union Theological Seminary's Reinhold Niebuhr and Episcopal Bishop Angus Dun of Washington. "Deeply penitent for the irresponsible use already made of the atomic bomb [and] agreed that the surprise bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are morally indefensible," the 21 churchmen argued that the U.S. should...
...Reinhold Niebuhr, of Union Theological Seminary, standard bearer of U.S. Protestantism's intellectuals, militant interventionist before Pearl Harbor...
Speaking Sunday night in Emerson D, Reinhold Niebuhr, of the Union Theological Seminary, identified the "cultural abyss of the age" as man's failure to recognize his basic weakness, insecurity...
...editorial board of Christianity and Crisis, a bi-weekly journal which Reinhold Niebuhr started in 1941 to fight pacifist religious views, came to much the same conclusions: the war might be shortened "if we were to state the conditions of peace, however harsh, in clear terms and thus . . . prevent the militarists from using the fear of annihilation as their final resource of power over the nation...
...Reinhold Niebuhr, professor, Union Theological Seminary...