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After nearly two hours, Reinhold Niebuhr, of the Union Theological Seminary, and The Reverend John A. O'Brien, S. J., head of the Boston College Department of Philosophy, had not locked horns on any significant issue, although the two of them had approached the problem from nearly every angle...
...Niebuhr is professor of Applied Christianity at New York's Union Theological Seminary, while Father O'Brien heads Boston College's Department of Philosophy and is president of the Jesuit Philosophical Society...
...Niebuhr Backs Compatibility...
...opposite viewpoint will have Niebuhr as a defender. Law Forum officials postulate that he will either claim that all Communism must not be equated with the Russian model and that forms of Communism not based on a police state are theoretically compatible with Christian theology, or else espouse the view that no political system should be required to lean on a theological system...
...Niebuhr is a leading exponent of liberal Protestantism and has authored many philosophical and religious works, including "An Interpretation of Christian Ethics" and "The Nature and Destiny of Man." He is a member of the national board of Americans for Democratic Action, a "liberal" but explicitly non-Communist group...