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Each drew on individual expertise to address a broad range of the contemporary problems of what Hollis Professor of Divinity Richard R. Niebuhr, a participant, called "an age of impoverished abundance...
...admiration. A Mississippi black woman tells her daughter that people of every hue are a mixture of good and bad, and the good fights the bad in politics all the time. Coles is again deeply impressed: "Such a moral and theological analysis of political life is worthy of Reinhold Niebuhr...
Reagan is a man of certitudes. Not since Harry Truman, very possibly, has a President been so confident he was right. There are plentiful hazards in that, but also many assets for a democratic leader. Reagan would not have chosen as one of his favorite messages the Reinhold Niebuhr line that Carter used to quote: "The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world." Reagan is not a big ambiguity...
White did not take all of this lying down. He objected strongly to those writers who sought to control opinion. Working on a World War Two government pamphlet with Reinhold Niebuhr, Max Lerner, and Malcolm Cowley, White wrote...
...Catholic bishops "go too far when they get into specific judgments about military strategy and weapons systems such as the MX"; they are addressing matters outside their expertise. The same complaint was made when C & C condemned the use of obliteration bombing in World War II. Responding to critics, Niebuhr wrote in 1944: "Laymen are not capable of judging detailed problems of strategy, but general principles of strategy ought to remain under democratic scrutiny. The military mind is inclined to disregard moral and political factors in strategy. It is the business of sensitive citizens to bring pressure upon the civilian...