Word: niebuhrs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr last week took cognizance of the Kinsey Report. Like many another churchman, he found Scientist Kinsey's point of view toward sex "distressing"-even more so than the sad state of U.S. morals it indicated...
Writing in the fortnightly Christianity & Crisis, Theologian Niebuhr attacked Kinsey on two main counts. First is the Report's assumption that the prevailing sexual license reflects the inadequacy of sex standards set up by the churches. Niebuhr admits that neither Catholic nor Protestant attitudes toward sex are all they might be. But with all its faults, maintains Niebuhr, Christian teaching comes much nearer than Dr. Kinsey to a true understanding of the place of sex in human relations. The Kinsey Report, he writes, "proposes to solve the problem, simply by ignoring all deeper aspects of human existence. Sexual drives...
...university lecture circuit (Chicago, Harvard, Columbia, Princeton). He settled down to a Greenwich Village exile, walked daily to mass at old St. Joseph's, consumed quantities of peanuts and ginger ale, and held a Sunday salon frequented by savants and celebrities. Said Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr: "Maritain [belongs] to that small company of great spirits in any age from whom one may learn...
...picture of Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr on the cover, and the article with it are among the best summaries on both a man and a philosophy of religion, as well as a philosophy of an Age, that I have ever read. A really superb...
...first glance, the health of Western civilization looks pretty good (e.g., people live longer than they used to). But Scottish Psychiatrist James L. Halliday, who took a long look, disagrees. A psychosomatic (mindbody) medicine man, he has come forth with a diagnosis that might not surprise Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr or Historian Arnold J. Toynbee: modern society is a very sick patient. The disease: an ailing mind. Dr. Halliday's findings are published this week in Psychosocial Medicine: A Study of the Sick Society (Norton...