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...Religion An admirable biography of Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, the apostle of Christian Realism. Mormon problems in Israel...
...uncouth country bumpkin with decidedly dubious scholarly credentials," as Historian Richard Fox characterizes him, was the young Reinhold Niebuhr. Over the next four decades he was to become the nation's best-known theologian and political preacher, his Teutonic scowl etched on the face of 20th century American Protestantism...
Niebuhr, who considered himself a "teacher of social ethics" rather than a theologian, became more interested in spiritual themes as his thought matured. His major statement of theology appeared in The Nature and Destiny of Man (two volumes, 1941 and 1943). Fox shows how profoundly Reinhold's evolution was influenced by the counsel of his younger brother H. Richard, a brilliant Yale theology professor who was painfully aware that he always stood in Reinhold's shadow...
...slow and secretive response to priest sexual-abuse scandals in San Francisco, where at least 68 lawsuits over alleged abuse are still pending. Father Patrick Brennan, vicar at the Archdiocese of Portland, admits that Levada "had his detractors" but praises his warmth and intelligence. "He's not an academic theologian," Brennan says. "He's a practical theologian...
...American prelate, whom he has known since Levada served under him in Rome at the Congregation in the early 1980s. "For this job," says a well-placed Vatican official, "he wanted to have someone he can rely on." With Benedict expected to remain the church's theologian in chief, Levada may be the key to putting the Pope's ideas into practice. --By Jeff Israely. With reporting by Laura A. Locke