Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Make Our Cause So Just." From Socialist testimony and Communist ranting it was clear that the initiative lay with the U.S. How should the U.S. use its opportunity? Theologian Dr. Reinhold Niebuhr had the best answer. In a Manhattan speech he said...
...acrimonious relations between Catholics and Protestants in this country are scandalous." So writes Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, one of Protestantism's top intellectual spokesmen, in the current issue of his fortnightly journal, Christianity and Crisis. Many a Christian will agree that: "If two forms of the Christian faith, though they recognize a common Lord, cannot achieve a little more charity in their relations to each other, they have no right to speak to the world or claim to have any balm for the world's hatreds and mistrusts." Even partisans of each faith will admit some justice...
...idolatry in the U.S. may be a blind, uncritical worship of democracy. So says hawk-nosed Reinhold Niebuhr, a topflight theologian who also takes a vigorous interest in politics. In the current issue of his fortnightly Christianity and Crisis, Editor Niebuhr writes...
...Avenue Presbyterian Church from 1905 to 1926. Under his liberal leadership (1926-45), Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary moved up to top rank among U.S. divinity schools. When the Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions began looking for a speaker for the first postwar Joseph Cook Lectures,* Preacher-Educator-Theologian Coffin was the obvious choice...
Here Gilson waved his pudgy, deprecating hands. "I'm no theologian, but I dare to put this proposition before you theologians. ... I propose to you that we return to the idea of Saint Thomas, whereby all essence is merged in 'the Supreme Being,' God, who is God primarily because He exists and draws all essence from the fact that He exists...