Word: theologians
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...numbers or enthusiasm. In parts of the movement, of course, the churches are not losing them; indeed, they are gaining zealots. Catholic Pentecostals and straight evangelicals are already having an effect; if organized religion embraced the Jesus People as well, the greening effect on the churches could be considerable. Theologian Martin Marty of the University of Chicago Divinity School feels that the Jesus People, frustrated by a complex society that will not yield to their single-minded devotion, may well disband in disarray. But even Marty says: "Five years from now you may have some better Presbyterians because of their...
...orthodoxy, but Niebuhr was very much an American original. He himself criticized Barth for being too controlled by the Bible and so far above the social tumult that he fostered "eschatological irresponsibility." For the past four decades, Niebuhr has been preeminent in his field, the greatest Protestant theologian born in America since Jonathan Edwards. Last week Niebuhr died at 78 in Stockbridge, Mass., the same town where Edwards once lived in exile-banished for his too-demanding theology. The funeral was held in the church where Edwards had preached...
...Ursula Niebuhr later became head of Barnard College's religion department. The Niebuhr teaching dynasty also included his late brother, eminent Yale Ethicist H. Richard; his late sister, Hulda, who taught education at McCormick Seminary; and his nephew, Harvard Theologian Richard Reinhold Niebuhr...
Died. Reinhold Niebuhr, 78, Protestant theologian and political thinker (see RELIGION...
...quite amusing to watch Hans Kung, as a theologian, sawing away at the branch he is sitting on. For if the propositions of faith are as inadequate as he claims them to be, he is surely not entitled to assert that God is infallible, or that faith is not the acceptance of infallible propositions but a commitment to Christ and his message. And why bother with Christ's message if he could have been mistaken...