Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Special Conditions. The dilemma that must be resolved before any genuine progress towards Christian unity can occur was pinpointed best by Theologian Lewis Seymour Mudge, a Presbyterian, writing in the Christian Century: "Our problem no longer centers on the 'divinity of Christ' [but on] the humanity of Christ. Christ became man and died for all men. We know that this is so, but our theologies and our church structures make it appear that he died for only some men or for a curiously fragmented sort of man . . . We are able to say no more than that God became...
...look at the total human drama," said Protestant Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, "we can find no conclusion within it but only the perplexing development of both good and evil possibilities. History most surely points beyond itself for the completion of its meanings and these completions can only be apprehended by faith rather than by reason. This is why the Biblical-Hebraic faith must remain the bearer of the religious content of our culture. The faith of the Bible seeks to penetrate the mysteries and meanings of life above and beyond the rational intelligibilities. It is not for this reason 'otherworldly...
...snappy, newsy approach ("Old North Church Will Wheeze No More," "Vicar's Worry: They Love 'Lucy' More Than Evensong"). But the magazine never really managed to make church trade news sound lively, and beefing up the contents with big-name articles by Historian Arnold Toynbee, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and Sportscaster Red Barber was not enough. Anonymous backers spent an estimated $650,000 trying to get Churchnews off the ground. But the publishers (the Southern Churchman Co.) could never hold more than 20,000 circulation (at $4.50 a year), which was not attractive enough to advertisers. Still...
...even imagine." The ten who will examine those consequences: Columbia University's Law Professor Adolph A. Berle Jr., Editor Henry R. Luce, Philosopher Scott Buchanan, University of California's Political Scientist Eugene Burdick, Princeton Historian Eric Goldman, Chancellor Clark Kerr of the University of California, Jesuit Theologian John Courtney Murray, Nobel Physicist Isidor I. Rabi, University of Chicago Anthropologist Robert Redfield, Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr...
Paul Tillich, 70, University Professor at Harvard,* and now the most discussed Protestant theologian in the U.S., is saying something similar, with an even stronger psychological and existentialist accent. Tillich's word for Original Sin is estrangement-man's estrangement "from the ground of his being, from other beings, and from himself...