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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reporter from the Yale Daily News was sent to report the visiting speaker. This time it was no routine chapel assignment. The News reporter wrote: "An electrically tense audience packed itself into Battell Chapel last night to hear Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr." The reporter did not exaggerate. For three successive nights Niebuhr, a lightning-fast speaker, held Yale undergraduates spellbound, and left behind a ferment of discussion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Niebuhr at Yale | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

...audience in Battell Chapel, Nietuhr was no unheralded lecturer: Yale's undergraduates knew him as one of Protestantism's top thinkers, a scholar whose writing often taxes the understanding. But there was no trouble understanding his preaching, for Dr. Niebuhr preached the oldtime religion, without concession to the easy secularism of his time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Niebuhr at Yale | 2/19/1951 | See Source »

Reverend Reinhold Niebuhr, professor at the Union Theological Seminary, will preach at 11 a.m. tomorrow in Memorial Church. Reverend Nebuhr is a member of the Board of Preachers, which arranges and conducts the University religions services...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Niebuhr Will Speak | 12/2/1950 | See Source »

Under the title Is There a Revival of Religion? Union Theological Seminary's Reinhold Niebuhr, in the New York Times Magazine, says that "there are certain marked tendencies in both the cultural and the popular interests of our day which would seem to prove the reality of such a revival...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Trend | 11/27/1950 | See Source »

...Reinhold Niebuhr's theology ... is a bit abstruse to the obtuse (most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jul. 17, 1950 | 7/17/1950 | See Source »

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