Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971)
Autor(a) de Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics
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
Image credit: (Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division LC-USZ62-127158)
Séries
Obras por Reinhold Niebuhr
The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness: A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of Its Traditional… (1944) 360 exemplares
Love and Justice: Selections from the Shorter Writings of Reinhold Niebuhr (LTE) (Library of Theological Ethics) (1957) 107 exemplares
Man's nature and his communities; essays on the dynamics and enigmas of man's personal and social existence (1965) 67 exemplares
The Structure of Nations and Empires: A Study of the Recurring Patterns and Problems of the Political Order in Relation… (1959) 28 exemplares
Reinhold Niebuhr on politics;: His political philosophy and its application to our age as expressed in his writings (1960) 27 exemplares
Remembering Reinhold Niebuhr: Letters of Reinhold and Ursula M. Niebuhr (2001) — Autor — 22 exemplares
Faith and politics; a commentary on religious, social, and political thought in a technological age (1968) 19 exemplares
A World Without War - An Inquiry into the Basic Factors Which Underlie Possible Roads to Peace (1961) 17 exemplares
A Nation so conceived; reflections on the history of America from its early visions to its present power (1963) 8 exemplares
The godly and the ungodly : essays on the religious and secular dimensions of modern life (1958) 3 exemplares
An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story 3 exemplares
Rare Reinhold Niebuhr / CHILDREN OF LIGHT AND THE CHILDREN OF DARKNESS 1st ed 1960 [Paperback] Niebuhr, Reinhold 2 exemplares
Reinhold Niebuhr: His Religious, Social, and Political Thought (The Library of Living Theology, Volume II) (1956) 2 exemplares
Nature and Destiny of Man Volume 1 1 exemplar
Prophet from America 1 exemplar
The Nature & Destiny of Man 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
Associated Works
The Lincoln Anthology: Great Writers on His Life and Legacy from 1860 to Now (2008) — Contribuidor — 153 exemplares
Leading From Within: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead (2007) — Contribuidor — 100 exemplares
War No More: Three Centuries of American Antiwar and Peace Writing (2016) — Contribuidor — 86 exemplares
A Book that Shook the World: Anniversary Essays on Charles Darwin's Origin of Species (1958) — Contribuidor — 13 exemplares
War As Crucifixion Essays on Peace, Violence and 'Just War' from "The Christian Century". (2002) — Contribuidor — 3 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)
Fatal error: Call to undefined function isLitsy() in /var/www/html/inc_magicDB.php on line 425- Richard Wightman Fox mentioned in his biography that Reinhold Niebuhr was seen, in the late forties, as "(...) the establishment's theologian (...)"
Membros
Críticas
Listas
Prémios
You May Also Like
Associated Authors
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