Word: reinhold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last month Paul Tillich, 72, received a special kind of present-a book entitled Religion and Culture: Essays in Honor of Paul Tillich (Harper; $7.50), whose 25 contributors include such groundbreakers as Psychoanalyst Erich Fromm, Philosopher Karl Jaspers. Theologians Karl Earth, Emil Brunner, Rudolf Bultmann, Reinhold Niebuhr. Even Roman Catholic theologians are recognizing Tillich as the most challenging Protestant mind of his time. "The sustained brilliance of Tillich is amazing," writes U.S. Theologian Gustave Weigel, a Jesuit, "and his incredibly wide knowledge matches his brilliance. Any witness of the Protestant reality looks for someone to give a unified meaning...
This precarious perch for man's soul is a long way from traditional Christian belief. Paul Tillich. Reinhold Niebuhr said once, "is trying to walk a fence between man's doubts and the traditions of man's faith. He walks the fence with great virtuosity, and if he slips a bit to one side or the other, it is hardly noticed by us humble pedestrians." There are many humble and not-so-humble pedestrians who think that no man who calls himself a Christian has any business on the fence in the first place. A fence...
Impressed by some of Tillich's writings on Religious Socialism, socialistic-minded Reinhold Niebuhr of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary had offered him a post at Union, but Tillich hesitated. He called on the Minister of Education in Berlin. "For a full hour," remembers Tillich, "we discussed the Old Testament and the importance to Christianity of the Jewish tradition. At the end of that hour I knew it was over...
Marriage Revealed. Donald Marr Nelson, 70, World War II boss of the War Production Board; and Lena Peters Schunzel. fortyish, widow of Actor-Director Reinhold Schunzel; he for the fifth time, she for the third; in Durham...
From his aerie in Switzerland, hawk-eyed Karl Barth, 72, Europe's most prestigious Protestant theologian, peers coolly at the Christian West. Last week U.S. Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, 66, glared right back. In the Christian Century, Niebuhr sharply answered Barth's latest anti-West pronouncement-a 45-page pamphlet addressed to an anonymous pastor in East Germany who had asked for spiritual guidance...