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...rhetorical. On March 25, 1919, depressed by a crisis in his own work and by the trauma of the lost war, Lehmbruck killed himself. He was 38. Ever since, the German art world has tended to the view that Lehmbruck's was an exemplary suicide-that, as Critic Reinhold Heller puts it, "his death became a supplication for peace and a sacrificial self-immolation in a world which had declared...
...Catholic themes exemplified by the ministry of Jesus Christ and--in Latin America--practiced even by a significant portion of the established Church. Friere has read widely among theologians, and his combination of two of the most important theological influences on his thinking and action--Teilhard de Chardin and Reinhold Niebur--reflect his fundamental Christian outlook and his emphasis on praxis...
...based on a vision of the cosmic evolution of man proceeding from the alpha point--base matter--to the omega point--the union of man and God in God's perfectness. Freire borrows this cosmic optimism for the future of man but tempers it with the political realism of Reinhold Niebur, an American Protestant theologian. Friere and Neibur feel that the cosmic evolution of man can become pathologically fixated at a certain point, and that to resume the hominization of man requires concrete political thinking and action. For Freire, this require a pedagogy of the oppressed...
...Ursula Niebuhr later became head of Barnard College's religion department. The Niebuhr teaching dynasty also included his late brother, eminent Yale Ethicist H. Richard; his late sister, Hulda, who taught education at McCormick Seminary; and his nephew, Harvard Theologian Richard Reinhold Niebuhr...
...Died. Reinhold Niebuhr, 78, Protestant theologian and political thinker (see RELIGION...