Word: theologian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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What is the basic issue between Christianity and Communism? A correspondent asked Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr: "Is it not quite simply that the Christian faith values the individual and respects his dignity, while Communism values the state and subordinates the individual to the collective...
...fellow travelers? Such charges have recently been made, notably by Roosevelt-hating pamphleteer John T. Flynn, whose book, The Road Ahead, brought the Federal Council of Churches out fighting with a special pamphlet to refute its numerous misstatements. Last week, in his biweekly journal, Christianity and Crisis, anti-Communist Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr swun, some haymakers at right-wing critics on Protestant social thinking...
...faculty members' meeting at which the theologian spoke was arranged by the United Ministry to Students in Cambridge. Also during the weekend the Rev. Mr. Niebuhr spoke at Memorial Church services and at the annual dinner at Kirkland House...
Genial Swiss Theologian Karl Earth added a cubit or two to his international stature by denouncing Hitler in 1933, when most good Christians were waiting to see how events would turn out. But Earth's postwar casualness about Communism's threat to Christianity has puzzled many a Protestant. In this week's Christian Century, the Rev. Hendrik Hauge, chaplain to Norway's famed Bishop Berggrav, attacks Earth's present political position...