Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971)
Autor von Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics
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Walter Lippmann once called Reinhold Niebuhr the greatest mind America had produced since Jonathan Edwards. It was fitting, then, that Niebuhr died at home in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in the town where Edwards had preached. He was born in Wright City, Missouri, and his father was a German mehr anzeigen immigrant who served those German-speaking churches that preserved both the Lutheran and Reformed (Calvinist) traditions and piety. After seminary in St. Louis, he studied for two years at Yale University, and the M.A. he received there was the highest degree he earned. Rather than work for a doctorate, he became a pastor in Detroit, where in his 13 years of service a tiny congregation grew to one of 800 members. Part of his diary from those years was published in 1929 as Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic. During that time he began to attract attention through articles on social issues; as he said, he "cut [his] eyeteeth fighting [Henry] Ford." But the socialism to which he was attracted soon seemed naive to him: human problems could not be solved just by appealing to the good in people or by promulgating programs for change. Power, economic clout, was needed to change the systems set up by sinful groups, a position expressed in his 1932 book, Moral Man and Immoral Society. By this time Niebuhr was teaching at Union Theological Seminary in New York, where he spent the rest of his career. Niebuhr's theology always took second place to ethics. He ran for office as a socialist, rescued Paul Tillich from Germany, became a strong supporter of Israel, gave up pacifism, and was often too orthodox for the liberals, too liberal for the orthodox. His The Nature and Destiny of Man is one of the few seminal theological books written by an American. In it he reiterates a theme that led some to place him in the Barthian camp of Neo-orthodoxy: the radical sinfulness of the human creature. The human condition as illumined by the Christian tradition was always the arena in which he worked. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness: A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of Its Traditional… (1944) 361 Exemplare
Love and Justice: Selections from the Shorter Writings of Reinhold Niebuhr (LTE) (Library of Theological Ethics) (1957) 107 Exemplare
Man's nature and his communities; essays on the dynamics and enigmas of man's personal and social existence (1965) 68 Exemplare
The Structure of Nations and Empires: A Study of the Recurring Patterns and Problems of the Political Order in Relation… (1959) 28 Exemplare
Reinhold Niebuhr on politics;: His political philosophy and its application to our age as expressed in his writings (1960) 27 Exemplare
Remembering Reinhold Niebuhr: Letters of Reinhold and Ursula M. Niebuhr (2001) — Autor — 22 Exemplare
Faith and politics; a commentary on religious, social, and political thought in a technological age (1968) 19 Exemplare
A World Without War - An Inquiry into the Basic Factors Which Underlie Possible Roads to Peace (1961) 17 Exemplare
A Nation so conceived; reflections on the history of America from its early visions to its present power (1963) 8 Exemplare
The godly and the ungodly : essays on the religious and secular dimensions of modern life (1958) 3 Exemplare
Reinhold Niebuhr: His Religious, Social, and Political Thought (The Library of Living Theology, Volume II) (1956) 2 Exemplare
The Restoration of Meaning to Contemporary Life 2 Exemplare
The Nature & Destiny of Man 1 Exemplar
Nature and Destiny of Man Volume 1 1 Exemplar
Prophet from America 1 Exemplar
Talk to students on theological education 1 Exemplar
What the christian hopes for in society 1 Exemplar
Freiheit und Gleichheit 1 Exemplar
Why the christian church is not pacifist 1 Exemplar
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War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (2016) — Mitwirkender — 86 Exemplare
A Book that Shook the World: Anniversary Essays on Charles Darwin's Origin of Species (1958) — Mitwirkender — 13 Exemplare
War As Crucifixion Essays on Peace, Violence and 'Just War' from "The Christian Century". (2002) — Mitwirkender — 3 Exemplare
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- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Niebuhr, Reinhold
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Niebuhr, Karl Paul Reinhold
- Andere Namen
- NIEBUHR, Karl Paul Reinhold
NIEBUHR Reinhold - Geburtstag
- 1892-06-21
- Todestag
- 1971-06-01
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- USA
- Geburtsort
- Wright City, Missouri, USA
- Sterbeort
- Stockbridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Wohnorte
- New York, New York, USA
- Ausbildung
- Elmhurst College (BA|1910)
Eden Theological Seminary
Yale Divinity School (B.Div.|1914|MA|1915) - Berufe
- Professor of theology, Union Theological Seminary, New York
- Beziehungen
- Keppel-Compton, Ursula (echtgenote)
Niebuhr, Helmut Richard (broer) - Organisationen
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1953)
Union Theological Seminary - Preise und Auszeichnungen
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (1964)
- Kurzbiographie
- Richard Wightman Fox mentioned in his biography that Reinhold Niebuhr was seen, in the late forties, as "(...) the establishment's theologian (...)"
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Man's Nature and His Communities; Essays on the… von Reinhold Niebuhr
This book concerns the nature of humanity and political and social life. It reevaluates idealistic and realistic social philosophies and analyzes tribalism as a pervasive quality of humankind's societies.
Deals with the uniqueness of the self and the religious implication and function of the self.
A collection of essays selected and introduced by Dr. D.B. Robertson of Berea College and approved by Professor Niebuhr, is the first collection of Niebuhr's occasional articles on issues affecting the conditions of American Protestantism; the relation of Christianity, morality, and society; the politics of Karl Barth and Barthianism; the power and insufficiency of "the Catholic heresy"; and the dilemma affecting the ecumenical movement and the World Council of Churches
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