Word: niebuhrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Significantly, the editorial chairman who penned these words was himself listed as an ardent pacifist in the '20s. He is Union Seminary's famed theologian, highbrowed, sharp-eyed Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr, and behind him are a group of potent church sponsors disturbed by a belief that every existing interdenominational paper is strongly pacifist in tone and no longer reflects the sentiment of most ministers...
Pioneer interventionists among churchmen have been the group led by Union Theological Seminary's Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr and Dr. Henry Pitney Van Dusen. Last week Dr. Niebuhr & friends renewed their pleas, this time for immediate ("not a day can be spared") moral and material aid for the Allies. Publication of their statement, with 27 signatures of bishops, preachers, educators, garnered 63 more signers, among them six bishops...
...patrioteers stiffened their sinews. The Reds were 500 delegates to an "emergency conference" of the United Christian Council for Democracy.* Among them were such innocuous clergymen as Episcopal Bishop Beverley D. Tucker of Ohio, such unsubversive characters as Methodist Bishop Francis John McConnell of New York, Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr of Union Theological Seminary (chairman of the Council)-and a couple of sure-enough fellow travelers, Methodist Rev. Dr. Harry Frederick Ward and Episcopalian Rev. William Benjamin ("Bill") Spofford. One William Ball, leader of Cleveland's Young Americanist League, fee-fi-fo-fummed for the G-Men to investigate this...
...Temple, a prelate who is much more highly esteemed by world churchmen than his superior, the Archbishop of Canterbury (see p. 25), is a sober theologian, a leader in the ecumenical (interchurch) movement, with many friends in the U. S. One friend, Reinhold Niebuhr of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, lately returned from a long stay in England. Dr. Niebuhr drafted, and some of his colleagues rewrote, a statement in which, this week, the Archbishop of York's position was strongly echoed, over the signatures of 33 of the nation's most influential Protestants...
...Massachusetts; Methodist Bishops Ivan Lee Holt of Dallas, Francis John McConnell of New York; Presidents Charles Seymour of Yale University, Mildred Helen McAfee of Wellesley College, Elizabeth Cutter Morrow (acting) of Smith College, John Alexander Mackay of Princeton Theological Seminary, Henry Sloane Coffin of Union Theological Seminary; Theologians Niebuhr, William Adams Brown, Howard Chandler Robbins, Henry Pitney Van Dusen; Church Laymen John Raleigh Mott, Robert Elliott Speer, Charles Phelps Taft...