Word: niebuhrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Western world's "hazardous affirmations" that history has meaning and that individual men lead meaningful existences both result from the influence of Christianity, Reinhold Niebuhr, visiting professor of Theology, said yesterday at the Divinity School's Convocation Service...
...Niebuhr also argued that the Christian Religion has colored Western man's entire view of nature and the temporal world. Because of the Christian influence, he said, men in Western cultures refrain from viewing nature as either divine or illusory, and instead approach a rationally...
These effects he listed as the chief contributions to the West from the "long encounter" with Christianity. Speaking before about 900 people in Memorial Church, Niebuhr considered at length these effects and the "present heritage" resulting from them...
...heritage has been beneficial, Niebuhr pointed out. The same affirmation--that history has meaning--which gave rise to the West's "historical dynamism" also brought on, for example, the corrupted scheme of values in which every event is related to divine will...
Puritanism degenerated into "Yankeeism because of this corruption, Niebuhr asserted. The Puritans were so extreme that they "regarded every storm as a revelation of God's wrath." If events went well, the Puritans slipped into "the complacent identification of virtue with success...