Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Niebuhr was one liberal Protestant who had indeed heard the Voice out of the whirlwind. It spoke the thought of three God-tormented men: Russian Novelist Fyodor Dostoevsky, Danish Theologian Soren Kierkegaard and Swiss Theologian Karl Earth...
...Theologian. The intricate architecture of his thought explains why even Roman Catholic theologians respect Dr. Niebuhr. Both Catholics and Protestants may disagree with this or that aspect of his doctrine, or bypass or reject it as a whole. Few care to challenge...
...lives strenuously at the seminary with his British-born wife, the former Ursula Keppel-Compton, and their two children, Christopher, 13, and Elizabeth, 9. Mrs. Niebuhr, a theologian in her own right, was the first woman to win a First in theology at Oxford. She has lectured on religion at Barnard College for six years. In summer, the Niebuhrs rusticate at Heath, Mass., near the Vermont line. There Niebuhr writes and rests, after his fashion, from the nervous pace at which he drives himself...
Died. The Rev. Dr. Clifton Daggett Gray, 73, Baptist theologian and third president (1920-44) of Bates College (which sanctioned undergraduate smoking and dancing, doubled in size and endowment under his administration); of a heart ailment; in Kennebunk, Me. In 1927 he emerged undefeated from a debate with Clarence Darrow on the subject: "What...
Theology & Liturgy. For a revitalization of Protestantism, the first thing needed, says Theologian Niebuhr, is a return to theology: "Theology is one of the conduits of faith without which the water which rises in the springs of Evangelicalism runs into the sand." Also needed is "an adequate liturgy. . . . American Protestantism cannot regain its spiritual vitality without seeking for a better synthesis between religious spontaneity and religious tradition and discipline...