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An Interview With Spencer Klaw, Mary Beth Hinton
An Interview With Spencer Klaw, Mary Beth Hinton
The Courier
Mr. Klaw's recently published book, Without Sin: The Life and Death of the Oneida Community,1 has provoked varying, but generally enthusiastic, responses jrom coast to coast. A few reviewers took him to task for failing to see Oneida leader,]ohn Humphrey Noyes, as the wicked tyrant that he was. Conversely, one reviewer chided him for judging Mr. Noyes too harshly. Since graduating from Harvard University in 1941, Mr. Klaw has been a writer and editor. His other books include The Great American Medicine Show (1975) and The New Brahmins: Scientific Life in America (1968). Between 1947 and 1952 he was a …
The Forgotten Brother: Francis William Newman, Victorian Modernist, Kathleen Manwaring
The Forgotten Brother: Francis William Newman, Victorian Modernist, Kathleen Manwaring
The Courier
This article details the life and contributions to literature of the Victorian Era writer Francis William Newman. The article provides insight into his liberal views regarding abolition, women's rights, diet, and nationalization, as well as the tensions and creative differences with his famous brother and Cardinal, John Henry Newman.
Theology For Freedom And Responsibility: Rudolf Bultmann's Views On Church And State, Antje B. Lemke
Theology For Freedom And Responsibility: Rudolf Bultmann's Views On Church And State, Antje B. Lemke
The Courier
This article is adapted from an address that Antje Lemke gave on the life and contributions of her father, Rudolph Bultmann. He was a prominent Protestant theologian, having grown up before Hitler's rise to power, and Bultmann witnessed how the Nazis manipulated the Church to try to gain support for their devious political goals. He joined the voices that spoke out against this fusion of national corruption with the Church. After World War II, he became involved in debates concerning political and liberation theology.
Rudolph Bultmann At Syracuse, Gabriel Vahanian
Rudolph Bultmann At Syracuse, Gabriel Vahanian
The Courier
The most distinguished Visiting Professor Syracuse University has had through its Department of Religion (1958-59), Rudolf Bultmann, born in 1884, still dominates the field of New Testament Studies. The University can take exceptional pride in having conferred upon him an honorary doctorate. In addition, the University Library is now the richer for being the recipient of a vast collection of materials originating from Professor Bultmann's eminent public career as well as from his personal life. The correspondence henceforth treasured by the Manuscripts Department of Syracuse University Library contains letters to and from the young promising theologians of the sixties as …