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...Niebuhr as Mentor
...explaining why he will help launch a new magazine called Catholicism in Crisis, Michael Novak [Nov. 8] makes dubious use of the precedent set by Reinhold Niebuhr in establishing Christianity and Crisis. True, Niebuhr founded C & C in 1941 to overcome the appeal of pacifism then pervasive in the Protestant churches. But 25 years later, writing on the Viet Nam War, Niebuhr addressed a new set of realities: "The problem of indiscriminate pacifism ... has given way to the problem of curbing pure force in the international realm...
...This is not the first time a well-intentioned cry for peace has made war more likely," Novak says, referring to the religious pacifist movement in the 1930s. In response to that earlier crisis, the Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, one of Novak's mentors, started the magazine Christianity and Crisis, which, beginning in 1941, argued that American Christians must fight to resist totalitarianism. Novak and other lay intellectuals plan to launch this month a similar magazine, Catholicism in Crisis. Sums up Novak: "The laity is supposed to lead in Christian reflection on this-worldly matters...
...visitor ambles to the ice cream pavilion in the town's square. Near by a sizable bookstore offers the works of Reinhold Niebuhr in paper and hardback, but no Playboys. A red-brick walkway shaded by great maples leads to the Hall of Philosophy, a determinedly Greek structure with large white columns. It would be impossible to utter a facetious word in this edifice, and Gene Outka, a professor of religious studies at Yale, is seriously posing conundrums, one of which concerns a military chieftain in some benighted land who has condemned ten political prisoners to death...
...Hromádka, saying: "My hair stands on end" at the concept of "freedom and peace" through "Nikita, Mao and even Fidel." Hromádka's association of the Christian Gospel with the political cause of Communism, he said, was a mirror image of the sin committed by Niebuhr and other anti-Communist "Western fathers...