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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Heimert co-edited with Miller The Great Awakening (1967), an anthology, He wrote Religion and the American Mind: from the Great Awakening to the Revolution (1966) and, with Reinhold Niebuhr, he co-authored A Nation So Conceived...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Heimert Will Be Cabot Professor | 5/28/1969 | See Source »

...imprisonment, she spent roughly $1,000,000 on legal maneuvers, including seven fruitless pleas to the U.S. Supreme Court. Money came from those who believed that Sobell had not received a fair trial. Among the doubters were Nobel Prizewinning chemists Harold C. Urey and Linus Pauling, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and Britain's nonagenarian nonbeliever, Bertrand Russell. Sobell, however, betrays scant enthusiasm today for continued legal battling to clear his name. In any case, after the verdict of his 1951 trial and more than a dozen later appeals, it would doubtless prove a fruitless enterprise...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Historical Notes: Return from Oblivion | 1/24/1969 | See Source »

...Although he was one of the founders of the World Council of Church es, and his writings in the 1930s had helped create the climate for ecumenism, he later came to criticize the organization as "too institutionalist." Such aloofness from trends others thought relevant inevitably won him criticism. Reinhold Niebuhr, once something of a follower, dismissed Barth's politics as naive and his theology as suitable only for catacomb Christianity. Other contemporary theologians charged that Barth paid too little attention to the role of history and sociology in the development of Christianity and that he spoke a Biblicist language...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: The Death of Two Extraordinary Christians | 12/20/1968 | See Source »

...being anti-ideological and a romantic, and I suppose they're right. My heroes are not the New Left heroes, and this is the problem, I guess. My heroes are Bernanos and Agee and Orwell and Simone Weil and Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy--and Reinhold Niebuhr. And I would add within my own profession Erik Erikson and Anna Freud...

Author: By Marion E. Bodian, | Title: Robert Coles on Activism | 5/29/1968 | See Source »

Heimert is the author of Religion and the American Mind and with Reinhold Niebuhr of A Nation So Conceived. He joined the Faculty in 1959. He and Mrs. Heimert, who now live in Winchester, will move into the Master's Residence this summer...

Author: By Joel R. Kramer, | Title: Von Stade, Heimert New Mather and Eliot Masters | 3/12/1968 | See Source »

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