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...CHRISTIAN IDEA OF EDUCATION, a seminar at Kent School, including papers and discussions by Stephen F. Bayne, Jr., Georges Florovsky, E. Harris Harbison, Jacques Maritain, John Courtney Murray, Reinhold Niebuhr, Alan Paton, William G. Pollard, and Massey H. Shepherd, Jr.; edited by Edmund Fuller, Yale University Press, 265 pages...
Most of the thinkers represented in the Kent School symposium believe that while revivalism is seldom Christian in any important sense, it can be the beginning of a real cultural baptism. Their arguments, best presented in the papers by Florovsky, Murray, Pollard, and Niebuhr, are fascinating, if unconvincing...
...longer sufficient -at least not to the liberals. The adherents of the social gospel were concerned with sin as a social fact, manifested in hunger, .disease, crime. The cure, in substantial part, was progress through social reform. With the momentous entrance in the '30s of Reinhold Niebuhr and neo-orthodoxy sin once again became real and personal for U.S. intellectuals-but in a new way. The moral or social emphasis was replaced by a psychological emphasis. Niebuhr saw the tension between man's fallen, finite nature and his transcendent nature producing anxiety. In other words, because of Original...
Sargant's Battle for the Mind has been extravagantly praised, not by fellow psychiatrists but by big-name laymen and critics, e.g., Philosopher Bertrand Russell, Los Angeles Methodist Bishop Gerald Kennedy, Critic V. S. Pritchett, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr ("fascinating and profound"). Actually, plausible though it sounds, Sargant's thesis is based on shaky premises. He accepts uncritically the Pavlovian view that the brain and nervous system are something "which man shares with the dog and other animals." In effect, the human brain, probably because of its greatly enlarged cerebrum and vastly multiplied nerve junctions, is different in quality...
Other approving views were voiced by Richard R. Niebuhr, assistant professor of Theology, who is "looking forward to an arrangement with Arts and Sciences to offer more courses with them." John Dillenberger, associate professor of Theology, hoped that the Faculty would offer more courses...