Word: niebuhrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that ecumenical Americans tend to leave to the fundamentalists and Adventist sects. Against this view many U.S. theologians will probably maintain that the Hope is in the gradual and practical Christian betterment of the world. In the current issue of the interdenominational quarterly, Religion in Life, pessimistic Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr asserts that the choice of theme was a bad idea in the first place...
Unity Plea. Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr ends a discussion of Protestant-Catholic differences on the subject of natural law with a moving plea that Christians remember that they have more to unite them than separate them...
Thanks to such men of the mind as Reinhold Niebuhr, Paul Tillich and dozens more, theology has become an exciting topic again, whether in the pulpit, the meeting hall or at the luncheon table. Even among the skeptical, the Western world considers the question: Is it possible that Christianity is really true, after...
...keen about the liturgical emphasis in the Episcopal Church," he says. "I also thought it contained more charming nominal Christians than any other. I missed its lack of moral drive. My religious motivation is primarily moral, and always will be. I didn't have to read Reinhold Niebuhr to know about original sin. The forces of evil are always gaining ground, and must be stopped again and again. This is a continuous battle...
...seminary during the past two decades. These have been the "neo-orthodox" years of theological through-the-looking-glass, when the wildest radicals were the most Biblically conservative, and the mark of old fuddy-duddyism was a relaxed attitude toward dogma. Students jampack the classes of Reinhold Niebuhr to hear that man is not good and never will be, and that humans must be content to strive for conditional and imperfect ends...