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Into the crossfire of controversy over Communism among the U.S. clergy jumped Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr this week. "It must be affirmed that there have never been many explicit Stalinists in the churches," Niebuhr writes in the Christian Century, "and today their number is ... insignificant . . . Nevertheless, there are a few and we ought to admit...
...Reinhold Niebuhr...
Richard Goldsmith '55 was named vice-president, Joseph Cooper '55 secretary, and Humphrey Fisher '55 treasurer. Other officers chosen include: Phillipe Villers '55, Political Action Chairman; Christopher Niebuhr '56, Harvard Affairs Chairman; Charles Edson '56, Membership Chairman; Anthony Beilenson '54, Public Relations Director; Lew Smith '54, Michael Jorrin '54, Gordon Graham '55, Peter Waldstein '55, members at large...
...philosophy of liberalism is not yet dead, much as you might wish it. The scientific disciplines including the social sciences are reinforcing historical liberalism . . . rather than Neo-orthodoxy ... I wish TIME and Niebuhr would catch up to the 20th century in their philosophy...
Indoctrination? Surely. But there are some things that should be indoctrinated, and one of them is that man's nature can be permanently improved, not through an economic leveling, but through an moral uplifting. And Viereck, like Niebuhr, stresses the recognition of evil as a positive force...