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Like Calvin Coolidge's legendary preacher, Reinhold Niebuhr is against sin. But Dr. Niebuhr is no simple evangelist urging good works and blind faith; his battle with sin cuts thick theological ice. He has sawed away to such effect in his 53 years that he is generally known as the No. 1 theologian of U.S. Protestantism...
Intellectual Theologian Niebuhr (pronounced Neeber) is no man for the masses: he often has Union Theological Seminary's best students gasping In the high altitudes of his apologetics. On the other hand, he is no mere dialectician of theology: his plain & fancy thinking is as closely welded to the problems of this world's politics as Walter Lippmann's. Last week he once again showed his hand, calluses and all, in his eleventh book, Discerning the Signs of the Times (Scribner...
...Most Ingenious Paradox."Niebuhr is at his characteristic best when he wields the flashing, two-edged sword of paradox: his book's most brilliant chapters are titled "The Power and Weakness of God" and "Mystery and Meaning." In the first, he cites the symbol of Christ crucified as the great reconciliation of two apparent irreconcilables-God's all-powerful goodness, and the power of evil in the world. In God's own willingness to submit to His creature man's free will, says Niebuhr, His final majesty-mercy-is revealed. In "Mystery and Meaning...
Intense, eager Theologian Niebuhr seems as paradoxical as his analysis of Christian doctrine. Noted as he is among churchmen for his neo-orthodox theology, he is almost as well known among intellectual liberals for his unorthodox politics. His writing is knotty, intellectual and forbidding; in speaking he has such a hard time keeping up with his racing mind that his words are accompanied by furious arm-flailings and face-twistings that sometimes make him look-though never sound -like an oldtime, fire-and-brimstone revivalist...
...Niebuhr's preoccupation with sin moved the late William Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury, to give him a gentle theological ribbing after a student conference at Swanwick where Niebuhr spoke...