Word: niebuhrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks in Great Britain had given Union Theological Seminary's Reinhold Niebuhr that high-low opinion of the British and U.S. Army education systems. In last week's Nation he cited chapter and verse, was at his caustic best on the subject of the U.S. Army daily paper Stars & Stripes: It "not only carries baseball box scores but has a daily photo of some glamor queen, usually a Hollywood star . . . presumably for the purpose of providing 'pin-ups.' ... In short, nothing is lacking . . . except serious discussion about the meaning of the war and the best means...
...Warned Niebuhr: "The American soldier . . . lacks help in finding the spiritual and moral significance of the titanic struggle in which he is engaged. We may one day rue this neglect...
News from Oxford, reported by the Anglican Church Times: "Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, who last Thursday received the degree of D.D. from Oxford University, is recognized as an outstanding religious teacher. So great, indeed, is the influence which, along with Professor C. H. Dodd of Cambridge, he exercises over the younger generation of theologians, that a current Oxford witticism enjoins: 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy Dodd with all thy heart, and thy Niebuhr as thyself...
...dangers of this belief, says Dr. Niebuhr, are threefold: 1) to believe that nothing is perfect tempts man to become defeatist toward culture and politics; 2) the frivolous are tempted to "sin that grace may abound," and 3) the rich and powerful are tempted to believe that God has ordained social inequalities...
From the 18th Century until very recently, says Dr. Niebuhr, the strongest influence has been that of the Renaissance. But today, he believes, its failure has provoked a reaction which may destroy not only its errors but the very tolerance and faith in justice and reason which have been its great achievements. In this new reaction two men have been prime movers -Marx and Hitler...