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...bigotry that cropped up around election day. Ever since, he has tried to interpret Catholic problems to his fellow Protestants, as well as Protestant problems to Catholics. A talented writer (he has published some first-rate reminiscences in The New Yorker}, Brown shares with his old teacher Reinhold Niebuhr an interest in trying to make theology relevant to the solution of contemporary social problems. One motive in moving to a secular campus is to help bring theological excitement to the parish and nonseminary world; yet Brown believes that theologians should not take themselves too seriously: "There is something demonic...
Although he said "the decision is a responsible one," Reinhold Niebuhr, sitting professor of Theology, expressed regret over the imminent nuclear tests...
...Niebuhr disagreed with Elliott over the timing of the blasts. "I regret that the tests should be announced before the Geneva conference is over," he said. Despite the conference's lack of "obvious success," the negotiations, he believes, have not yet "obviously failed...
...resumption of tests "is an indication of the edge of the abyss on which we are living," concluded Niebuhr...
...doubt seems to be man's real condition? Because of its roots in an unchallengeable faith and its reliance upon the truth of a book that many men now regard as a volume of interesting poetry rather than a divine revelation, his theology has been described-by Reinhold Niebuhr-as "designed for the church of the catacombs." Barth himself believes his work contains "a missionary call." It provides no easy, immediate, specific answers to man's daily worries-but summons him to learn that all questions are ultimately theological, and that the ultimate theological answer has been given...