Word: protestantism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the bland influence of the idea of progress, man, supposing himself more & more to be the measure of all things, achieved a singularly easy conscience and an almost hermetically smug optimism. The idea that man is sinful and needs redemption was subtly changed into the idea that man is...
Dr. Niebuhr was one liberal Protestant who had indeed heard the Voice out of the whirlwind. It spoke the thought of three God-tormented men: Russian Novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky, Danish Theologian Soren Kierkegaard and Swiss Theologian Karl Earth.
The Man. The elaborator of somber paradoxes is something of a paradox himself. Hawk-nosed and saturnine, Reinhold Niebuhr is, nevertheless, a cheerful and gracious (though conversationally explosive) man. An intellectual's intellectual, he nevertheless lectures and preaches with the angular arm-swinging of a revivalist. An orthodox Protestant...
In Greenwich, Conn., the National Council of the Protestant Episcopal Church, dissatisfied with existing literature on marriage, decided to prepare its own. Items needed: a basic book of instruction on marriage; an extensive bibliography on sex, marriage and family life for the clergy.
The Rt. Rev. Henry Knox Sherrill (Sun. 11:30 a.m., Mutual). The Presiding Protestant Episcopal Bishop in America, in an appeal for European relief.