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...will without revelation. Many Protestants distrust the whole Scholastic tradition, which they feel keeps man from direct contact with God by interposing an artificial structure of reason. But some Protestant theologians, while far from accepting the classical Catholic version, are ready to underwrite natural law in some form. Reinhold Niebuhr denies the existence of natural law but concedes "certain laws, certain norms and degrees of universality'' (incest, for instance, is almost universally taboo...
...results. Insecure and anxious like most men, theologians (there has never been a woman theologian of note) tend to equate the restless self-concern that results from this state with sin, and to extol the opposite (feminine) qualities of quiet, self-surrendering passivity. Such theologians as Paul Tillich, Reinhold Niebuhr, Sweden's Anders Nygren and Israel's Martin Buber see man as estranged from himself and from God and filled with anxiety because of his estrangement; that anxiety, in their view, results in sins of "pride, will-to-power, exploitation, self-assertiveness, and the treatment of others...
...looked around as pious Jews were "beating their breasts with intensity of feeling and anguishing sincerity," and he decided that his presence among them was "a kind of desecration" since their creed no longer had any meaning for him. Years later he listened to a sermon by Reinhold Niebuhr and said to him after ward: "Reinie, may a believing unbeliever thank you for your sermon?" Replied Niebuhr: "May an unbelieving believer thank you for appreciating...
...onetime chairman of Americans for Democratic Action. In Manhattan, a regiment of eggheads closed the gap in their ranks with a Draft Stevenson Committee, signed a loyalty pledge supporting their favorite candidate. Among the signers: Poets Carl Sandburg and Archibald MacLeish. Authors John Steinbeck and John Hersey, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, Critic John Mason Brown, Playwright-Producer George Abbott, Composer-Conductor Leonard Bernstein...
Second Thoughts. While his views on Earth are unchanged. Niebuhr has revised his opinions on two major 20th century intellectual forces: ¶ SECULARISM. Niebuhr regrets some of his earlier polemics against it. now feels that Christianity "must make common ground with the different kinds of secular humanism to protect the dignity of the person against the perils of dehumanization in an increasingly technical age.'' And Christians must be humbly aware that in many cases, out-and-out secularists are morally better than they are. ¶LOGICAL POSITIVISM. Niebuhr now defends the modern philosophical school which concentrates on language...