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Sep 18, 2005 · Forgetting Reinhold Niebuhr. THE recent outburst of popular religiosity in the United States is a most dramatic and unforeseen development in American life. As Europe grows more secular, America ...
Reinhold Niebuhr; His Religious, Social, and Political Thought. : This collection of essays, by world scholars of different faiths and fields of study, eloquently documents the importance and continuing influence of Niebuhr's extensive body of work. Following an "intellectual autobiography" by Niebuhr are twenty essays forming a candid and ...
Reinhold Niebuhr, often considered America's greatest Protestant theologian and one of its most influential social critics, had a major impact on twentieth-century political life. Niebuhr helped shape the field of Christian social ethics; promote movements for Christian socialism and political realism; create organizations such as the ...
Jul 25, 2023 · Reinhold Niebuhr has developed the thesis that man is a creature of two dimensions: "He stands at the juncture of nature and spirit." As finite, man is a part of nature, subject to its laws and its vicissitudes; but as self-conscious, man transcends himself, being capable of viewing himself as object, and thus is a creature of spirit.
5 days ago · In discussing Niebuhr's distinction between public and private morality, Ruether comments: “Reinhold Niebuhr became the chief formulator of this essential dichotomy in bourgeois culture between the home and public life.” Ruether, Rosemary, New Woman, New Earth (New York: Seabury, 1983), p. 199.
May 4, 2009 · He did note that Barack Obama called Reinhold Niebuhr a philosopher rather than a theologian, and I can’t help but point out that President Bush referred to Jesus as his favorite philosopher. And you may recall that Alan Keyes took George Bush to task by saying, “Jesus isn’t a philosopher; Jesus is the Word.”.
Niebuhr resorts to the formula of “original sin” to explain why evil in history belongs to man. “Man being both free and bound, both limited and limitless is anxious. Anxiety is the inevitable concomitant of the paradox of freedom and finiteness in which man is involved. Anxiety is the internal precondition of sin.
