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...Bernard Iddings Bell in a recent Atlantic Monthly: the chief obstacle to Christian unity is not mere divergence of structure and administration among the churches, but the cleavage between those who believe in Christ's divinity and those who don't. Says neo-orthodox Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr in the current Presbyterian quarterly, Theology Today: "The problem of ecumenical Christianity in America is the problem of resolving what is true and false in both the Church and the sect idea of Christianity...
...Niebuhr on sectarianism...
...Niebuhr sees hope of attaining church unity: "In a sense this problem is being solved by progressive stages on the American scene. The fractional character of the various denominations prompts them to a certain degree of humility in assessing their own virtues and in appreciating the excellencies in the traditions of others...
Atomic Penitence. Not adopted by the Council was a much harder-hitting report on atomic warfare by 21 leading theologians, including the Union Theological Seminary's Reinhold Niebuhr and Episcopal Bishop Angus Dun of Washington. "Deeply penitent for the irresponsible use already made of the atomic bomb [and] agreed that the surprise bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki are morally indefensible," the 21 churchmen argued that the U.S. should...
...Reinhold Niebuhr, of Union Theological Seminary, standard bearer of U.S. Protestantism's intellectuals, militant interventionist before Pearl Harbor...