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...Idea of Responsibility in Ethics and Faith" is the subject of four William Beldon Noble Lectures, to be delivered by Helmut R. Niebuhr, professor at the Yale Divinity School. Niebuhr opens his series at 8 o'clock tonight in Appleton Chapel, speaking on "The Moral Dialogue...
...these trying times a mountain residence is considered more comfortable) -and there are some commuters. But few have dared attempt to bring the mountain and the plain together in a single theological system. Of these, the man who has made the most systematic effort-and, along with Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, the most brilliant-is a 66-year-old professor at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, Dr. Paul Tillich. In The Theology of Paul Tillich (Macmillan; $5.50), edited by Professors Charles W. Kegley and Robert W. Bretall, a group of well-known philosophers and theologians*has given detailed and awed...
...Homeless. In 1933, when the Nazis deprived Tillich of his job at the University of Frankfurt, Reinhold Niebuhr asked him to join the faculty of Union Seminary. He has taught and preached there ever since. Both men deal in questions of philosophy and theology, but where Niebuhr is Protestantism's No. 1 theologian in the U.S., Tillich can be called its No. 1 philosopher...
...Including Niebuhr, Philosophers John Herman Randall Jr. and Theodore M. Greene, Theologians James L. Adams, Nels F. S. Ferre. *This is really a restatement of Luther's "justification by faith alone," a doctrine Tillich feels most Protestants no longer understand...
Cashmere's nomination immediately ran into trouble, i.e., that peculiar New York political institution, the Liberal Party. Core of the Liberal Party is Dave Dubinsky's International Ladies' Garment Workers Union; around it cluster intellectuals like Adolf Berle and Reinhold Niebuhr. The Liberal Party fights Tammany, but on national and statewide issues usually lines up with the Democrats. When it seemed clear that Cashmore would be nominated, the Liberals balked. They nominated a stopgap candidate, Columbia University's Dr. George S. Counts. Party leaders admitted that they might shift to another candidate before election. What made...