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...TIME'S cover this week is Reinhold Niebuhr (see RELIGION). Many editors would not consider him news. In the headline sense, he says nothing "sensational." Yet Niebuhr is conducting an inquiry that may turn out to be more important to the 20th Century than the United Nations Assembly or any investigation by the Senate. For decades large segments of the Christian churches shied away from theology; God was "a lurking luminosity, a cozy thought." Against the current of his day, Niebuhr pursues a quest into the nature of God, of man, of sin. What Niebuhr thinks has a profound...
Just 25 years ago, TIME'S first cover subject was "Uncle Joe" Cannon, Speaker of the House of Representatives, symbol of a kind of bossism that was dying. Uncle Joe's retirement was a good if obvious choice of a cover subject. By TIME'S standards, Niebuhr is just as truly news as Uncle Joe. That Niebuhr's significance is less obvious does not make him less important...
...newly-elected 40-odd-man national board encompasses all of labor minus the Harry Bridges-led splinter of the CIO as well as the young men in the Democratic Party and the now minority-representation of independent liberal citizens. Here enter Reinhold Niebuhr, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., ex-housing expediter Wilson Wyatt, and movie star Ronald Reagan. Eleanor Roosevelt looms a power behind the scenes. This total coalition's impressiveness stems from the fact that it is influence mobilized with the sole immediate political end of isolating Henry Wallace. To do this job and to elect congressmen who meet "progressive...
...other great failure of Protestantism, says Niebuhr, lies in its "inability to preserve the allegiance of the industrial workers of modern civilization. . . . Protestantism was the religion of the common man in the days of the American frontier. But as frontiersmen graduated into the middle class, the Protestant Church tended to move up one rung in the social ladder and to step down one rung from prophetic vitality to the complacency of the established order. Catholicism, on the other hand, has never lost sight of the social character of man's existence...
Theology & Liturgy. For a revitalization of Protestantism, the first thing needed, says Theologian Niebuhr, is a return to theology: "Theology is one of the conduits of faith without which the water which rises in the springs of Evangelicalism runs into the sand." Also needed is "an adequate liturgy. . . . American Protestantism cannot regain its spiritual vitality without seeking for a better synthesis between religious spontaneity and religious tradition and discipline...