Word: niebuhrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Albert A. Berman '49, secretary and sole officer of the society, revealed last night that the organization will try to get H.A. Musty, "the country's leading pacifist," and Reinhold Niebuhr, "leading religious apologist for war," to stage a debate here during reading period...
Last week, in the pages of the Christian Century, U.S. Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr attacked "continental" theology for having its head in the clouds. His target was the continental theologians' chief spokesman, Karl Barth...
Says Theologian Niebuhr: Barth is preaching a dangerous doctrine. The care of the Church is most certainly our care, and to prove it, he cites Saint Paul (I Corinthians 12). Earth's emphasis on "what we cannot do" is really a temptation to Christians "to share the victory and the glory of the risen Lord" without undergoing the trials, perplexities and decisions -the "crucifixion of the self which is the scriptural presupposition of a new life...
Through, Not Around. Earth's theology, writes Niebuhr, delineates "the final pinnacle of the Christian faith and hope with fidelity to the Scriptures. Yet it requires correction, because it has obscured the foothills where human life must be lived. It started its theological assault decades ago with the reminder that we are men and not God, that God is in the heavens and that we are on the earth. The wheel is come full circle. It is now in danger of offering a crown without a cross, a triumph without a battle, a scheme of justice without the necessity...
...last week, the controversy over the Nation had boiled up into a first-rate argument over freedom of the press. In the current issue of the Nation, 107 educators, lawyers, clergymen and writers, such as Reinhold Niebuhr, Sumner Welles, Publishers Palmer Hoyt, Mark Ethridge and Ralph McGill, signed "An Appeal to Reason and Conscience" demanding that the New York City board change its mind. New York City's School Superintendent William Jansen had defended the ban as "based on the long-established American tradition that religious discussions and criticism of religion have no place in the classroom...