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...time; as a professor at Bonn University, he defied Hitler early in the Nazi regime, but since World War II Barth has angered many by his live-and-let-live attitude toward Communism, his sharply anti-U.S. attitude. His antagonist last week was U.S. Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, himself a sometime left-of-center critic of U.S. policy. The issue for which Niebuhr takes Barth to task in the pages of the Christian Century: Barth's failure to raise his voice against Russia's bloody suppression of the Hungarian people...
...Fresh Look. Niebuhr holds that the theology underlying Barth's political judgment is defective on two counts. First, it is too eschatological, too concerned with the second coming of Christ at the world's end to be able to see the relevancies and relativities of politics here and now. Second, says Niebuhr, it is devoid of principle. Barth once answered his colleague Emil Brunner, who had asked him why he did not oppose Communist totalitarianism as he had the Nazi variety, by saying: "The church must concern itself with political systems not in terms of principles...
...relation to Hungary, Barth has been what Niebuhr calls "a kind of unofficial Pope of the Hungarian Reformed Church." Called upon in 1948 by that church for advice in its relations with the Communist regime, Barth encouraged collaboration with the Reds, and urged the church not to let opposition to the Communists guide its affairs. Niebuhr concedes that Barth is no Marxist and grants that in East Germany Barth's "eschatological emphasis has inspired a kind of religious resistance which has permitted the East German Christians to bear witness to their faith." But why has Barth not confessed that...
Professor Reinhold Niebuhr of New York's Union Theological Seminary will speak on "Meaning and Mystery" at services in Memorial Church tomorrow at 11 a.m. Amplifying equipment has been installed so that the noted theologian may be clearly heard thoughout the Church...
...Hofmann's study will try to provide a theological understanding of the human personality with special attention to the insights, problems, and methods of depth psychology. He has studied psychology under Karl Jung, Jean Piaget, and Ludwig Binswanger, and is the author of The Theology of Reinhold Niebuhr, published last year...