Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Into Battle. Theologian Brunner lost no time in challenging this position. In an open letter to Earth in the same publication he said that he was unable to understand why Earth, one of the first and most uncompromising opponents of Naziism, has not taken a similar stand against Communism-and long since. Is not Communism totalitarianism? Brunner asked. And is not totalitarianism "in principle" unrighteous and inhuman? Must not Christians join in this battle? To remain silent is to deny a fundamental Christian principle, which Christians must never...
...Father White wonders whether God may not sometimes use the couch as well as the confessional to save a soul: "While man is limited to the appointed channels of grace and forgiveness, God is not so limited; and there seems to be no foregone reason why the theologian can deny to dream-symbolism the . . . efficacy he must allow to the sacraments . . . or - it may be added - the dream symbols of the Scriptures. Though little can be affirmed or denied with certainty, the resemblances are sometimes too impressive to be totally ignored...
Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr last week took cognizance of the Kinsey Report. Like many another churchman, he found Scientist Kinsey's point of view toward sex "distressing"-even more so than the sad state of U.S. morals it indicated...
...ends with five minutes of silent thought. Says Hahn: No intellectual life [can develop] if :here is no opportunity and no desire to be alone." After lunch, youngsters lie flat on the floor while a master reads. In the afternoon comes the active life. Says Hahn, quoting Swiss Theologian Karl Barth: "The world needs men, and it would be sad if it were just the Christians who did not wish...
Writing in the fortnightly Christianity & Crisis, Theologian Niebuhr attacked Kinsey on two main counts. First is the Report's assumption that the prevailing sexual license reflects the inadequacy of sex standards set up by the churches. Niebuhr admits that neither Catholic nor Protestant attitudes toward sex are all they might be. But with all its faults, maintains Niebuhr, Christian teaching comes much nearer than Dr. Kinsey to a true understanding of the place of sex in human relations. The Kinsey Report, he writes, "proposes to solve the problem, simply by ignoring all deeper aspects of human existence. Sexual drives...