Word: niebuhrs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Manhattan. Sockman was minister of Manhattan's Christ Church, Methodist, and the author of numerous inspirational books (The Higher Happiness, How to Believe). But his largest audience was on the air waves, where, as he once put it, "I pitched my sermons on a level somewhere between Reinhold Niebuhr and Norman Vincent Peale...
...millions of sensitive Christians are more moral and Christian than the governments under which they live. Governments act on the basis of expedience and are therefore amoral, while the true Christian's view of responsibility is vastly superior in a humanitarian sense to that of his government. Reinhold Niebuhr's phrase, "Moral Man in an Immoral Society," suggests a vital distinction between a Christian and the society in which he lives. To make such a sweeping generalization as Mr. Yellin appears to make without taking the broader view reminds us of Gilbert Chesterton's statement: "All generalizations...