Word: niebuhrs
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...donors included Arnold Toynbee and David Dubinsky. Charles Malik and Jacques Maritain, T. S. Eliot and Eleanor Roosevelt. They and 66 other sponsors had joined to raise $250,000 for a going-away present to Reinhold Niebuhr. the U.S.'s best-known theologian, retiring this month at 68 as vice president and senior faculty member of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. The gift: a Reinhold Niebuhr professorship of social ethics. Its first incumbent: Congregationalist John Coleman Bennett. 57, dean of the faculty and professor of applied Christianity at Union, who, like his friend Niebuhr. is deeply concerned with...
...Niebuhr, who in 1953 suffered a stroke that partially paralyzed his left arm. has no intention of quitting work after his retirement. He will be busy on a project for the Fund for the Republic this summer, will conduct a seminar at Union next fall, and work for Columbia University's Institute for War and Peace Studies. Looking back last week over his 32 years at Union. Niebuhr noted in an article in the Union Seminary Tower how much the theological climate had changed during that third of a century. Few men have had so strong a hand...
...Reasserted. Fresh fiom 13 years as pastor among the auto workers of Detroit, 36-year-old Niebuhr came to Union in 1928 to teach applied Christianity. He had hardly settled in when the Depression struck, putting the U.S. in a new mood to listen to his impassioned preaching, and severely testing the era's "Social Gospel.'' which identified "the Christian faith with a mild socialism and a less mild pacificism, all encased in an overall utopian-ism.'' Against this. Niebuhr reasserted that man is born to sin and striving and cannot dodge either. He attacked...
...recent Christian Century article. Niebuhr indicates what he means by ''eschatological irresponsibility"-an end-of-the-world insistence on Christian detachment from society, as preached by Swiss Theologian Karl Earth. Although Earth "is generally acknowledged to be something of a genius" and "certainly has more imagination than any other living theologian." he has made of his theology a neutralist citadel "from which one could hurl anathemas against both the communists and Western democracies...
...himself simply a "Wesleyan," after Methodism's spellbinding, peripatetic founder, John Wesley. But, recalls Kennedy, there are some zigzags in his spiritual development. In the 19305 he went through a strong neo-orthodox phase: "I took to neo-orthodoxy the way Methodists take to organization." The theology of Niebuhr and Barth "rescued me from the tranquilizing theory of inevitable evolutionary progress and restored the sense of God's majesty. But as the years went by, my ardor was cooled by the tendency of so many of the brethren to state extreme positions in order to be noticed...