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...that the doctrine of individuality, has been dulled into the concept of individualism, we may expect the Christian doctrine of equality to orient the churches with a new economic society. So much had been pointed out by Leo XIII, but institutions are more sluggish than doctrines; Dr. Niebuhr has attempted to show the probable behavior of ecclesiastical institutions under the impact of an economic and political crisis...
...sharp analysis of complexity, neither losing himself in details nor grasping at easy generalizations, Dr. Niebuhr approaches that liber mirabilis, Cardinal Newman's "Arians of the Fourth Century." One of the easy generalisations which he has avoided is that of Christianity as a withdrawal from the politics of the actual world, a starry pre-occupation with the absolute which can find no channel into the particular. This is just the Platonic Christianity against which Aquinas waged so masterful a struggle; it is the Christianity which, in the phrase of Mr. G. K. Chesterton, regards the body as a kind...
January 7 Professor R. Niebuhr, Union Theological Seminary...
...Reverend Reinhold Niebuhr, M.A., D. D., professor of Applied Christianity. Union Theological Seminary, New York City, will conduct the Sunday services in the Memorial Church, at 11 o'clock...
January 15, Reinhold Niebuhr, Professor, Union Theological Seminary, New York...