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Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971)

Autor(a) de Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics

54+ Works 5,316 Membros 37 Críticas 9 Favorited

About the Author

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 mostrar mais 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) mostrar menos
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Séries

Obras por Reinhold Niebuhr

The Irony of American History (1952) 572 exemplares
An Interpretation of Christian Ethics (1935) — Autor — 357 exemplares
Justice and mercy (1974) 81 exemplares
Essays in applied Christianity (1959) 70 exemplares
Pious and secular America (1958) 57 exemplares
Discerning the signs of the times (1946) 33 exemplares
Christianity and power politics (1948) 24 exemplares
Does Civilization Need Religion? (1927) 24 exemplares
Mississippi Black Paper (1965) 11 exemplares
Reflections on the end of an era (1934) 11 exemplares
Jews after the war (essay) (1942) 1 exemplar

Associated Works

The Cost of Discipleship (1937) — Prefácio, algumas edições8,587 exemplares
The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) — Introdução, algumas edições5,167 exemplares
On Religion (1957) — Introdução, algumas edições257 exemplares
The Philosophy of History in Our Time (1959) — Contribuidor — 217 exemplares
Leading From Within: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead (2007) — Contribuidor — 100 exemplares
War in the Twentieth Century (Library of Theological Ethics) (1992) — Contribuidor — 54 exemplares

Etiquetado

Conhecimento Comum

Nome canónico
Niebuhr, Reinhold
Nome legal
Niebuhr, Karl Paul Reinhold
Outros nomes
NIEBUHR, Karl Paul Reinhold
NIEBUHR Reinhold
Data de nascimento
1892-06-21
Data de falecimento
1971-06-01
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
USA
Local de nascimento
Wright City, Missouri, USA
Local de falecimento
Stockbridge, Massachusetts, USA
Locais de residência
New York, New York, USA
Educação
Elmhurst College (BA|1910)
Eden Theological Seminary
Yale Divinity School (B.Div.|1914|MA|1915)
Ocupações
Professor of theology, Union Theological Seminary, New York
Relações
Keppel-Compton, Ursula (echtgenote)
Niebuhr, Helmut Richard (broer)
Organizações
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1953)
Union Theological Seminary
Prémios e menções honrosas
Presidential Medal of Freedom (1964)

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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.
 
Assinalado
PendleHillLibrary | Mar 8, 2024 |
Deals with the uniqueness of the self and the religious implication and function of the self.
 
Assinalado
PendleHillLibrary | 2 outras críticas | Nov 3, 2023 |
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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PendleHillLibrary | Oct 13, 2023 |
sermons on social thought
 
Assinalado
SrMaryLea | Aug 22, 2023 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
54
Also by
10
Membros
5,316
Popularidade
#4,684
Avaliação
4.1
Críticas
37
ISBN
116
Línguas
4
Marcado como favorito
9

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