Word: niebuhrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cover a story as old as Easter, TIME'S Religion Editor John T. Elson flew to Basel, Switzerland, to talk to the man on this week's cover. Theologian Karl Earth. They talked, among other things, of Calvin, Mozart and Reinhold Niebuhr ("a great man. but if only he had an inner ear, through which he could hear what Mozart is saying, he wouldn't be so serious all the time"). Barth cheerfully remarked that a Barthian usually smokes a pipe; an orthodox theologian, cigars; and liberals, cigarettes. He offered Religion Editor Elson-a cigar...
...contrast, Reinhold Niebuhr regards Barth as a "man of infinite imagination and irresponsibility" writing "irrelevant theology to America. I don't read Barth any more," he says. And Dr. Cornelius Van Til of Westminster Theological Seminary speaks for a host of U.S. fundamentalists in charging that "Barthianism is even more hostile to the theology of Luther and Calvin than Romanism...
...Baptists, Lutherans and Episcopalians as well as his own Reformed Church. Preachers read him, and his thought probably affects a good share of the sermons spoken in U.S. churches any given Sunday, but laymen hardly know his name. He has far fewer disciples in the U.S. than either Niebuhr or Tillich; and even in Germany, young theologians find more impact in the Christian existentialism of Rudolf Bultmann (TIME, April 14, 1961). All this is fine with Barth himself, who dis owns the idea of a school - "except for my two sons" - meaning Markus, 46, a New Testament scholar...
...Christian faith in this century." Other theologians complain that if anyone tried to read all that Barth says about the Word of God he would have no time to read the Word of God itself. Barth's interpretation of that Word has plenty of critics. Both Niebuhr and Tillich think that he is too critical of the cultural disciplines, such as philosophy and anthropology, which attempt to give man an insight into life's meaning. Princeton's best-known systematic theologian, Presbyterian George Stuart Hendry, says Barth's Christocentric approach forces many church doctrines into...
...religious climate of the U.S. has changed sufficiently so that we get fewer letters accusing us of being too pro-or too anti-Catholic, or for or against Protestants. It seems now to be generally recognized that we can put on the cover Protestant or Catholic theologians (Reinhold Niebuhr or Father John Courtney Murray), or leaders of the church (Eugene Carson Blake or Pope John), without trying to proselytize. We do stories about Jews, about Buddhists, about Moslems, and occasionally about atheists. We try not to be sensational, but do not mind being controversial...