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...argument favoring the retention of the rationing measures was its success during the last three and a half weeks of the spring term, when a 5,000-pound wheat con- servation and a $2,400 cash saving were credited to the program. Contributions have been sent through Boston's Unitarian Service Committee to students at the University of Paris and the University of Vienna, and $300 was allocated to tubercular students at the University of Grenoble last week...
...pamphlet, What Is This Neo-Orthodoxy? (TIME, May 6), eleven Unitarian disbelievers (in the deity of Christ and the sinfulness of man) had lambasted Protestantism's growing neo-orthodox movement with everything in the book. The Unitarian polemicists concentrated their attack on neo-orthodoxy's belief in the Doctrine of Original Sin, indulging themselves in such five-fingered epithets as "totalitarian religion," " 'Mother fixation' upon an idealized past...
...this strange age it has been left to the American Unitarian Association to descend to a level of theological discussion never reached in our knowledge by the most obscurantist fundamentalist sect. . . ." Reinhold Niebuhr was counterattacking in force...
...this week's issue of his intellectual quarterly Christianity & Society, neo-orthodoxy's Reinhold Niebuhr uncorked a reply that minced no words. "The animus of the [Unitarian] attack," he charged, "is primarily directed against the classical tradition of Christianity in any of its forms." Then he went on to a flat refutation of the Unitarian authors' two main theses-which, he said, revealed "the stupidity and the malice of the pamphlet...
...Unitarian writers] thinks that a realistic view of human nature easily 'excuses personal and individual inaction as well as acquiescence in the idea of dictatorship.' . . . Most of the continental resistance churches were informed by a dialectical theology. . . . It is stupid and malicious to deny the moral and religious heroism of continental Christianity in fighting the evils of Nazism...