Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...found him on the U.S. university lecture circuit (Chicago, Harvard, Columbia, Princeton). He settled down to a Greenwich Village exile, walked daily to mass at old St. Joseph's, consumed quantities of peanuts and ginger ale, and held a Sunday salon frequented by savants and celebrities. Said Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr: "Maritain [belongs] to that small company of great spirits in any age from whom one may learn...
Communism, Theologian Bennett concludes, which began as a moral protest against social injustice, has turned into a tyranny because it has no transcendent faith to preserve it from idolatry, and no real understanding of the meaning of personal freedom. And all this was largely "because Christians did not see until too late the revolutionary demands in their own faith...
...picture of Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr on the cover, and the article with it are among the best summaries on both a man and a philosophy of religion, as well as a philosophy of an Age, that I have ever read. A really superb...
...first glance, the health of Western civilization looks pretty good (e.g., people live longer than they used to). But Scottish Psychiatrist James L. Halliday, who took a long look, disagrees. A psychosomatic (mindbody) medicine man, he has come forth with a diagnosis that might not surprise Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr or Historian Arnold J. Toynbee: modern society is a very sick patient. The disease: an ailing mind. Dr. Halliday's findings are published this week in Psychosocial Medicine: A Study of the Sick Society (Norton...
...Cambridge for a weekend 'rest", theologian Reinhold Niebuhr yesterday conducted Sunday morning services at the College and later told a packed audience in the First Congregational Church that "Christianity extends beyond both law and relativism...