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Today, midway in a bloodier, more dangerous century, there is widespread skepticism about "the steady gain of man." Most notable spokesman for this view among U.S. Protestants is Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. In his newest book, Faith and History (Scribner: $3.50), Professor Niebuhr struggles with his own tortuous prose to present his pertinent views on what kind of progress, if any, man can hope...
...Unanticipated Disaster." The Classical Greek and Oriental idea of the progress of man, says Author Niebuhr, was that there was no such thing. Like the endless cycles of nature, the projects and enterprises of men and nations were thought to flourish and die again & again in an eternal circle of recurrences. Man's only hope, Plato taught, was to free his spirit from imprisonment in the living death of the bodily world. When the Biblical-Christian conception of history replaced this classical view, says Niebuhr, "the dynamism of Western culture was made possible." Christian teaching viewed and still views...
...remedy, according to Niebuhr: let mankind return to the Christian concept that history is a drama "of God's contest with all men, who are all inclined to defy God because they all tend to make their own life into the center of history's meaning...
Zechariah Chafee, Jr., Langdell Professor of Law; William E. Hocking, Alford Professor of Philosophy, emeritus; Archibald MacLeish, Law School graduate; Reinhold Niebuhr, University preacher; and Arthur M. Schlesinger, professor of History are five members of the twelve-man commission. They all figure prominently in the Tribune article, as did other faculty members and alumni of the University...
...Niebuhr has preached socialism and denounced capitalism for many years," Hughes charged. "Niebuhr attacks what he calls the Marxist illusion in many of his works," Mayer replied...