Word: socialize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Does the Christian Gospel of Redemption apply to nations as well as individuals? Here Niebuhr wades into a cut & thrust theological controversy, armed with a two-edged blade of paradox. Human society, he concedes, is maintained by push-and-shove competition and balance of power; the very instruments of social justice tend automatically to become unjust. But, he says, such teachers as Martin Luther are in error, when they "exclude the possibility of redemption and a new life in man's social existence, and confine redemption to individual life." The structures of society cannot be perfected, but they...
Niebuhr finds still further possibility of Christian redemption on an international level. The most powerful groups within nations and the most powerful nations in the world can, he thinks, behave enough like individuals to earn themselves rebirth. This can happen when their power and pride are challenged by new social forces. Then they "face the alternative of dying because they try too desperately to live, or of achieving new life by dying to self." When the latter occurs, he claims, it establishes "the validity of the Christian doctrine of life through death for the collective, as well...
Over 400 new workers may be added to the local social service field as the result of Saturday's intercollegiate conference on volunteer social service at Phillips Brooks House, Johm C. Pttenger '51 of PBH estimated yesterday...
Seventeen New England colleges sent delegates to PBH's all-day session to help build up the volume of college volunteer work. After the sessions the majority of these schools signified their intent to expand their number of social service workers...
Dean Sperry of the Divinity School closed the conference with an appeal to the delegates to "recapture the true spirit of self sacrifice" that once pervaded social service work. He also urged Harvard volunteers to make true the desires of some of the thousand underprivileged Boston boys who want to come to Harvard...