Word: niebuhrs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while back New York Congressman Jonathan Bingham slipped Jimmy Carter a 414-page book, saying that he wanted Carter to have it even though he knew he was too busy to read it right away. The book, Courage to Change: An Introduction to the Life and Thought of Reinhold Niebuhr, was by Bingham's wife June. Carter fixed his determined gaze on Bingham and replied, "I shall read it within the month...
...Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream by Doris Kearns and eagerly welcomed the author a few weeks later when she came to interview him. Recently Carter polished off General Maxwell Taylor's new book on national defense, Precarious Security. He is savoring Justice and Mercy, a collection of Niebuhr's sermons, addresses and prayers that was sent to him by the theologian's widow...
...most important book in his life is, of course, the Bible. Another that had profound impact was James Agee's Let Us Now Praise Famous Men. The book Reinhold Niebuhr on Politics was important in developing his attitude toward public life...
Roger Shinn, Reinhold Niebuhr professor of social ethics at New York City's Union Theological Seminary, believes that "religious wars tend to be extra furious. When people fight over territory for economic advantage, they reach the point where the battle isn't worth the cost and so compromise. When the cause is religious, compromise and conciliation seem to be evil." Possibly the transcendent nature of both religion and war encourages an especially lethal kind of fanaticism. As Shinn says, "War is one of the few occasions when people are asked to give of themselves in a cause that...
Died. Martin Heidegger, 86, seminal German philosopher whose explorations of the nature of being influenced modern theologians like Reinhold Niebuhr as well as existentialists like Jean-Paul Sartre; of circulatory disease; in Messkirch, West Germany (see EDUCATION...