Word: niebuhrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Theologian REINHOLD NIEBUHR, in the left-liberal NEW LEADER...
...record crowd of over 1300 jammed Memorial Church yesterday morning to hear a sermon by Reinhold Niebuhr, vice-president of the Union Theological Seminary. The ushers lost count after 1200 worshippers had filled Appleton Chapel as well as the nave and balcony of the Church, where they sat on the stop until a policeman required them to stand so as not to block the aisles...
...Niebuhr's sermon, the text of which was the parable of the Pharisees and publicans, urged that goodness and self-realization cannot be truly attained if they are too actively sought after, and suggested that too sharp a distinction between good and evil was unwise, because "the taint of evil against which we contend is in us also...
...Reinhold Niebuhr, eminent Protestant theologian and vice-president of the Union Theological Seminary in New York, will preach before a congregation in Memorial Chapel at 11 a.m. this Sunday. Niebuhr, a leader of the Neo-Orthodox movement in Protestantism, is a member of the University Board of Preachers...
...resulting pool of teaching talent made up one of the largest single Protestant faculties in the U.S. Its tradition, exemplified by Bible Translator Edgar Johnson Goodspeed and liberal Theologian Shailer Mathews, was solidly liberal. But in 1943 theological liberalism looked like an outworn creed beside the fashionable stringencies of Niebuhr's neo-orthodoxy...