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...whom are ordained ministers, represent eight faiths. Students learn about preaching and praying from Presbyterian Coffin, Presbyterian Hugh Black, Baptist Fosdick. Specialty of Congregationalist Erdman Harris is expounding the technique by which he has worked successfully among students and young people. Methodist Harry Ward and Reformed Churchman Reinhold Niebuhr devote themselves to the church's social gospel. The United Free Church of Scotland's James Moffatt, famed for his translation of the Bible into modern English, specializes in church history. Congregationalist Robert Ernest Hume teaches comparative religions which he keeps up to date by such studies...
...Reinhold Niebuhr, a professor at Union Theological Seminary, Mrs. Gifford Pinchot, wife of the former governor of Pennsylvania, and possibly Heywood Broun are to be future Liberal Club speakers, in addition to others to be announced later...
...dined on ten head of cattle. Unitarians of the American Unitarian Association and allied societies met in the centre of their stronghold-Boston. From Rev. Maxwell Savage of Worcester, Mass. they heard that their sect, "made up of separatist ministers and isolationist churches," is too individualistic. From Professor Reinhold Niebuhr they heard praise of sane optimism which comes after despair and suffering. From Rev. John Haynes Holmes they heard that contemporary civilization is collapsing, although it has produced four great men: Einstein, Freud, Lenin, Gandhi. Northern Baptists numbering 3,500 met in Rochester, N. Y. As their new president they...
...path of Christian pessimism is steered with just as sure a success. Dr. Niebuhr maintains that its pessimism is one pregnant with political change, as the pessimism of Buddha is not, and he does not neglect to show the role which this pessimism should play in radical political theory. The old argument against collectivism, that it is a system which ignores human imperfection, is turned into the argument that collectivism is a system based on human imperfection. It is, says Dr. Niebuhr, the unreasoning impulse and brutality of human beings which makes collectivism the only safe economic solution...
...Niebuhr's survey of the breakdown of capitalism is able, and sometimes brilliant. But it does not contain the real body of his contribution to our political understanding. It is in his keen criticism of Marxism as a religion (for it is a religion, whatever its pretensions to pure science may be), and in his treatment of its relation, doctrinal and actual, to other and older religions that Dr. Niebuhr is on the most fruitful ground...