Word: reinhold
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...donors included Arnold Toynbee and David Dubinsky. Charles Malik and Jacques Maritain, T. S. Eliot and Eleanor Roosevelt. They and 66 other sponsors had joined to raise $250,000 for a going-away present to Reinhold Niebuhr. the U.S.'s best-known theologian, retiring this month at 68 as vice president and senior faculty member of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. The gift: a Reinhold Niebuhr professorship of social ethics. Its first incumbent: Congregationalist John Coleman Bennett. 57, dean of the faculty and professor of applied Christianity at Union, who, like his friend Niebuhr. is deeply concerned with...
...Peace Studies. Looking back last week over his 32 years at Union. Niebuhr noted in an article in the Union Seminary Tower how much the theological climate had changed during that third of a century. Few men have had so strong a hand in bringing about the change as Reinhold Niebuhr himself...
...Niebuhrs are the Trapp family of theology. Reinhold is professor of ethics and theology at Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary; his younger brother, H. (for Helmut) Richard, is professor of theology and Christian ethics at Yale University Divinity School; and H. Richard's son, Richard R. (for Reinhold), is associate professor of theology at Harvard Divinity School. In last week's Christian Century, Niebuhr No. 2, H. Richard, analyzes the nature of his own faith and how it has changed...
...year-old Theologian Niebuhr reacted against the liberalism which ignored church tradition and turned back instead to giants of the past-Jonathan Edwards. Pascal, Luther, Calvin, Thomas Aquinas and Augustine. And while he considered the reform of culture one of Christianity's great responsibilities (to which Brother Reinhold was especially called), the reform of the church itself was his own special vocation. "As a convinced Protestant (not an anti-Catholic) who saw the sovereignty of God usurped by the spirit of capitalism and of nationalism, I felt strongly that the times called for . . . the return of the church...