Word: niebuhrs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Protestantism is still around too, though it's power is steadily weakening ... Of course there are still some people around who can't face the facts of life, and so they turn anxiously to Gloomy Gusses like Karl Earth and Reinhold Niebuhr as an escape. But their brand of revived Fundamentalism obviously will not survive the present wave of postwar hysteria. In general, it seems to me that modern man is slowly but surely waking up to the realization that in order to move forward towards a scientific and democratic civilization he must rely on intelligent faith...
...look at the total human drama," said Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, "we can find no conclusion within it but only the perplexing development of both good and evil possibilities. History most surely points beyond itself for the completion of its meanings and these completions can only be apprehended by faith rather than by reason. This is why the Biblical-Hebraic faith must remain the bearer of the religious content of our culture. The faith of the Bible seeks to penetrate the mysteries and meanings of life above and beyond the rational intelligibilities. It is not for this reason 'otherworldly...
...newsy approach ("Old North Church Will Wheeze No More," "Vicar's Worry: They Love 'Lucy' More Than Evensong"). But the magazine never really managed to make church trade news sound lively, and beefing up the contents with big-name articles by Historian Arnold Toynbee, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and Sportscaster Red Barber was not enough. Anonymous backers spent an estimated $650,000 trying to get Churchnews off the ground. But the publishers (the Southern Churchman Co.) could never hold more than 20,000 circulation (at $4.50 a year), which was not attractive enough to advertisers. Still...
...Berle Jr., Editor Henry R. Luce, Philosopher Scott Buchanan, University of California's Political Scientist Eugene Burdick, Princeton Historian Eric Goldman, Chancellor Clark Kerr of the University of California, Jesuit Theologian John Courtney Murray, Nobel Physicist Isidor I. Rabi, University of Chicago Anthropologist Robert Redfield, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr...
...discussing the first question, Murray and Niebuhr are particularly relevant. Murray suggests the example of Origen, who was the first man to devise a truly Christian education, that is, an education which tried to subsume all knowledge into the Christian Revelation. Origen felt that only the man who had mastered all the intricacies of Hellenic thought could hope to convert Alexandria. And so he set to work to incorporate the rationalism, pluralism, secularism, the skeptical positivistic tradition which emphasized what men knew over what he did not know, the world of Alexandria's Academy and Library, the anomic world...