Word: niebuhrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...president, Bishop Sherrill. When the delegates to the National Council's constituting convention elected Bishop Sherrill its first president, they did not pick a veteran wheelhorse of the ecumenical movement. Nor were they singling out one of the sparkplugs of U.S. Protestantism-a barrier-breaking theologian like Reinhold Niebuhr or a hard-hitting polemicist like Methodist Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam. They were simply picking the best...
...settling of America, this interplay between the institutional churches and the radical, otherworldly sects took on new dimensions. In the aphorism of Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, the sects in America tended to become churches and churches to become sects. The Lutherans, Calvinists and Anglicans took root mainly in the settled areas, ministering to limited communities of their own faithful. The sectarians-e.g., the Baptists and Methodists and Disciples of Christ-were pushing out into the frontier where America was in the making...
...College moves to bring religion more heavily into the life of the undergraduate. For two successive years there have been week-long series of lectures on the Christian religion with supporting meetings in the Houses. This month Nels F. S. Ferre of Vanderbilt University conducted the program, and Reinhold Niebuhr may give the talks next year...
...Reinhold Niebuhr's "The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness" ("Most thought-provoking analysis of will take for democracy and searching idea of what it will take for democracy to survive"), three votes...
...place of such simple happiness, Niebuhr described a state of joy that he said is more consistent with the dual motivation of human nature. "Such is the pleasure that springs from personal sacrifice . . . an example is the joy a mother gets through sitting up all night with her child...