Word: reinhold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...only if the cops and courts get tougher. Admittedly, fear of dire punishment is often an effective deterrent. So, for that matter, is torture. But the reformers argue that the hope of an orderly society lies in making "equal and exact justice" more equal and more exact. As Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr has observed, "Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary...
...airplane factory outside Cairo to decide to drive 300 miles across the Libyan Desert to the remote Siwa Oasis, site of Roman temple ruins and the classical oracle of Jupiter Ammon, consulted by Alexander the Great. It was to be a week-long vacation. The group included Gunther Wanderscheck, Reinhold Rimm, and Hans Hauser, together with Cairo Salesman Klaus Böhm, and his wife Gudrun. They took two Volkswagens, a sedan and a Micro Bus, and Gudrun, who took along her camera, snapped the others clowning about before they all left...
Bennett, the first holder of the Reinhold Niebuhr Professorship of Social Ethics at Union, is co-chairman of the editorial board of Christianity and Crisis. In 1960, he defended John Kennedy against the charges of his fellow Protestants who felt that Kennedy's Catholicism would hamper his conduct in office...
Heimert is the author, with Reinhold Niebuhr, of A Nation So Conceived-- Reflections on the History of America from Its Early Visions Its Present Power...
...Among the other signers: Paul Tillich, Reinhold Niebuhr, United Presbyterian Church Leader Eugene Carson Blake, Methodist Bishop John Wesley Lord, American Hebrew Congregations President Maurice Eisendrauth, Washington National Cathedral Dean Francis B. Sayre...