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...Individuals must be committed to something greater than themselves," Reinhold Niebuhr said in Memorial Church yesterday. Speaking to an overflow crowd, Niebuhr mentioned the German universities of the 30's where students warmly accepted the Nazi philosophy. He warned of the danger today from minds that are barren of values...
These minds, Niebuhr continued, are likely to accept some "devil theory"; under Communism all the problems come from abuses by property-owners, and those without possessions are men of virtue...
...ordained a deacon in 1944; two years later he became a priest. For the last two years, he has been Episcopal chaplain at Columbia University. Pike's main job there: building up the almost nonexistent religion department. In two years, he and Religion Professor Ursula (Mrs. Reinhold) Niebuhr of Barnard College have established a joint Columbia-Barnard religion curriculum of 38 courses and 500 students...
...faculty are equally observant of Jewish law and tradition. But Orthodox Jews are scandalized that some of the seminary's 23-man board of directors are members of Reform synagogues.* And even some Conservative Jews are shocked at Finkelstein's habit of inviting Christian theologians (e.g., Reinhold Niebuhr, of Union Theological Seminary, just across the street) to talk to his students. President Finkelstein has an answer to such objectors: "The job of special service to God is not exclusive to the Jews...
...Reinhold Niebuhr, professor of applied Christianity at the Union Theological Seminary...