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...against Hitler's puppet church. That same year he was fired from his professorship at the University of Bonn for refusing to take the ritual faculty pledge of allegiance to Hitler. Returning to his native Switzerland, the archfoe of Nazism often perplexed Westerners-including America's Reinhold Niebuhr-with his live-and-let-live attitude toward Communism...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Thunder and Lightning in a Pen | 8/3/1981 | See Source »

Richard R. Niebuhr, previously Florence Corliss Lamont Professor of Divinity, is the new Hollis Professor of Divinity. The Hollis professorship, the oldest endowed chair at Harvard, was vacated when professor George H. Williams retired last semester...

Author: By Anthony J. Blinken, | Title: Div School Appoints Five to Fill Chairs | 4/14/1981 | See Source »

John Strugnell, Professor of Christian Origins, will fill Niebuhr's vacated chair...

Author: By Anthony J. Blinken, | Title: Div School Appoints Five to Fill Chairs | 4/14/1981 | See Source »

...future. He notes: " 'What are you doing next year?' can be, and often is, regarded as a hostile question." Gomes makes cheerful academic jokes (on Ascension Day: "It is the Lord who graduates") and will quote Ogden Nash or Woody Allen as freely as Crisis Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. But he offers no easy optimism or simple uplift to his young charges. "Human progress is a foolish myth of epic proportions," Gomes insists. "It is the fantasy of our age and time. Human perseverance in the face of human folly, it is that of which the kingdom of heaven...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: American Preaching: A Dying Art? | 12/31/1979 | See Source »

ARTHUR SCHLESINGER JR., historian (City University of New York): I don't see around the kind of people who constituted leadership when I was younger. Everything looked better when people like Franklin Roosevelt, Reinhold Niebuhr and the like were alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Who Are the Nation's Leaders Today? | 8/6/1979 | See Source »

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