Word: niebuhrs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Protestant Theologian REINHOLD NIEBUHR in the NEW LEADER...
...words are yours.'"* Writing in the Guardian, Middleton's Bishop Wickham concluded that "the old er text now encourages laziness of belief. The new one compels reaction just because the meanings stand proud." In the U.S., the Yale Divinity School's Dr. H. Richard Niebuhr, professor of Christian Ethics and Theology, greeted the new Bible with enthusiasm. "It is written in a beautiful, contemporary style; it has a dignity of its own." Added Princeton's Dr. Franklin W. Young: "The new translation brings us close to the colloquial style which predominates in the original Greek text...
Speaking before an audience of 400 at the Loeb Drama Center, Nadine Gordimer claimed that "South Africa lacks the culture from which literature draws its real substance." She quoted Reinhold Niebuhr's criteria for a national super-entity, noting that her country has no common language, philosophy, or historical experience, no ethnic kinship, and common...
Neither Father Murray's nor Reinhold Niebuhr's way of distinguishing between public and private morality really meets the dilemma of the Christian, who has a responsibility for moral action even in the service of the state, and presumably might find in the Sermon on the Mount a greater authority than Father Murray's very flexible natural law. I do not write as one who can resolve the dilemma, but as one persuaded that neither Niebuhr nor Murray has explained it away...
Murray's good friend (and hot disputant), Protestant Reinhold Niebuhr, says warmly of him: "What makes Murray significant is that he thinks in terms of Catholic theology and the American tradition at the same time. He rejoices in being in the American tradition...