Word: reinhold
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Meanwhile, other men of ideas found other banners to rally around. Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr condemned the liberal reformers for having ignored the fact of original sin, and declared that man's destiny is to "seek after an impossible victory and to adjust himself to an inevitable defeat." In his The Public Philosophy, Journalist Walter Lippmann denounced the "Jacobin heresy" of the modern democracies, which insists that the New Man will be born out of his emancipation from authority. What is needed, said Lippmann, is a return to the idea of natural law, for with the disappearance of this public...
...your March 12 issue attributes to the editors of Christianity and Crisis quotations on Billy Graham's projected meetings in New York City. But the notes in Christianity and Crisis represent the views only of the editor whose initials are appended, in this instance "R. N." I Reinhold Niebuhr]. As a fellow editor, I would take a rather different position...
...Niebuhr, presently lecturer on religion at Vassar College, will assume his new post this summer. He is the son of H. Richard Niebuhr, professor at the Yale Divinity School, and nephew of Reinhold Niebuhr, professor at the Union Theological Seminary, two leading religious philosophers...
...dread the prospect," says the current issue of the Protestant fortnightly Christianity and Crisis. The prospect: Evangelist Billy Graham's next crusade in Manhattan, scheduled for some time in 1957. Christianity and Crisis, edited by Theologians Reinhold Niebuhr and John C. Bennett, gives its reasons...
...government, and the splinter group of which he is a leader (Ihud, meaning Union) is almost the only voice in Israel advocating cooperation with the Arabs. But Buber's main achievement lies in his tense, paradoxical, spiritual philosophy that has perhaps been as influential among Christian theologians, e.g., Reinhold Niebuhr, Paul Tillich, Karl Barth, as among Jews. A new book...