Word: sinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...that human evil is due merely to human ignorance is being conducted by Protestant Reinhold Niebuhr of New York City's Union Theological Seminary. In Vol. I (Human Nature, TIME, March 24, 1941) of his work The Nature and Destiny of Man, Dr. Niebuhr found the roots of sin in pride and self-righteousness. In his second volume, Human Destiny (Scribner; $2.75), Dr. Niebuhr examines past and present interpretations of history...
Church and Rebels. In the Middle Ages, says Dr. Niebuhr, the Church decided that the holiness of the clergy placed them above historical error, and by putting the Church Militant in the same place as the City of God they fell into the sin of pride, which expressed itself in the violent exercise of power politics. The result was revolt against Catholicism. The revolt took two forms-the Reformation and the Renaissance...
...Reformers, the very idea of anyone being free from sin was objectionable. Sin, they believed, might be overcome in principle, but not in fact. The just could be saved by faith alone...
...Buchmanites were seeking draft deferment on the grounds that their Moral Re-Armament organization (successor to Buchman's sin-&-tell Oxford Group) was necessary to the nation's wartime morale. Prompt to disagree were New York Local Board No. 17 and the district Appeals Board. Yet somehow the Buchman men had managed to find friendlier ears on more exalted heads...
Agitators for a return to prohibition got a douse of cold water this week when the Office of War Information released the findings of a survey on drinking in the U.S. armed forces. After gathering information from almost all U.S. camps and ports, from the adjacent "hot spots" and "sin zones," after interviewing commanding officers, provost marshals and chaplains, OWI concluded: 1) there is no excessive drinking among troops; 2) drinking is not a serious problem; 3) no American Army in history has been so well behaved. Some OWI findings...