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Helmut Richard Niebuhr (September 3, 1894-July 5, 1962) was one of the most important Christian theological-ethicists in 20th century America, most known for his 1951 book Christ and Culture and his posthumously published book The Responsible Self.
Niebuhr was born in Wright City, Missouri, the son of Gustav Niebuhr, a minister in the Evangelical Synod of North America.
Niebuhr was concerned throughout his life with the absolute sovereignty of God and the issue of historical relativism.
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  H. Richard Niebuhr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Helmut Richard Niebuhr (1894-1962) was an American Christian ethicist best known for his 1951 book Christ and Culture and his 1960 book Radical Monotheism and Western Culture.
Niebuhr was raised in Missouri, the son of Gustav Niebuhr, a minister in the Evangelical Synod of North America.
Niebuhr was concerned throughout his life with the absolute sovereignty of God and the issue of historical relativism.
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 Reinhold Niebuhr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Niebuhr was born in Wright City, Missouri, USA, the son of a liberally minded German Evangelical pastor, Gustav, and the brother of Helmut Richard Niebuhr.
During the 1930s Niebuhr was a prominent leader of the militant faction of the Socialist Party of America, promoting assent to the United front agenda of the Communist Party USA, a position in sharp contrast to that which would distinguish him later in his career.
Niebuhr soon left the Fellowship of Reconciliation, a peace oriented group of theologians and ministers, and became one of their harshest critics.
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Niebuhr was born in Wright City, Missouri, USA, the son of a liberal-minded German Evangelical pastor, Gustav, and the brother of Helmut Richard Niebuhr.
During the 1930s Niebuhr was a prominent leader of the militant faction of the Socialist Party of America, promoting assent to the United front agenda of the Communist Party USA, a position in sharp contrast to that which would distinguish him later in his career.
Niebuhr was the author of the Serenity Prayer used by Alcoholics Anonymous (in a slightly different form from the version he wrote).
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 Boston Collaborative Encyclopedia of Western Theology: Reinhold Niebuhr
Niebuhr major contribution can be seen in the effort by the church to re-establish the place of religion in general, and Christianity in particular as a key player in the array of cultural forces that influence and form civilization.
Niebuhr in his retirement expressed doubts on his earlier analysis suggesting that perhaps in his effort to diminish the group's moral capacity by contrasting it with the individual's, he may have inevitably overrated the capacity of the individual.
Niebuhr re-conceptualize agape love into a paradoxical formulation of the "impossible possibility." It as an impossibility because, "the Christian ethic cannot be simply love, for men live in history, and "perfect love" in history has not fared well" (Niebuhr, 1932, 22).
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 Helmut Richard Niebuhr - Encyclopedia.com
He was the younger brother of Reinhold Niebuhr.
Niebuhr then taught (1919-22 and 1927-31) at Eden Theological Seminary and served (1924-27) as president of Elmhurst College.
Thierry, and 'the modern historians of Rome', Barthold Georg Niebuhr and Thomas Arnold.
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 H. Richard Niebuhr Summary
On Sept. 3, 1894, H. Richard Niebuhr was born in Wright City, Mo., the youngest of five children of a German immigrant Protestant minister, Gustav Niebuhr, and his American-born wife, Lydia.
In 1916 Niebuhr was ordained to the ministry of the Evangelical and Reformed Church and served as pastor of a church in St. Louis until 1918.
Niebuhr was raised in Missouri, the son of Gustav Niebuhr, a minister in the Evangelical Synod of North America.
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 Reinhold Niebuhr Biography (Theologian) — FactMonster.com
Niebuhr neither created nor defended a particular belief system as much as he worked to apply Christian morals to contemporary political and social problems.
Niebuhr is credited with authoring what has been called the Serenity Prayer, a form of which is used by Alcoholics Anonymous.
In his early years Reinhold Niebuhr was an active socialist, but he advocated early intervention against Adolf Hitler in World War II, and by the end of the war had moved away from socialism to condemn totalitarian communism.
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 Helmut Richard Niebuhr - Search Results - MSN Encarta   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Niebuhr, H(elmut) Richard (1894-1962), American Protestant theologian, born in Wright City, Missouri, and educated at Elmhurst College, Elmhurst,...
Niebuhr, Barthold Georg (1776-1831), German historian and statesman, born in Copenhagen, and educated at the University of Kiel in Germany.
Niebuhr, Reinhold (1892-1971), American Protestant theologian, whose social doctrines profoundly influenced American theological and political...
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 Reinhold Niebuhr
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) was a Protestant theologian best known for his study of the task of relating the Christian faith to the reality of modern politics and diplomacy.
Niebuhr was born in Wright City, Missouri, USA, and was the brother of Helmut Richard Niebuhr[?].
He was educated at Yale University's school of divinity, and went to do evangelical work in Detroit.
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 Content Pages of the Encyclopedia of Religion and Social Science
Richard Niebuhr graduated from Elmhurst College (1912) and Eden Theological Seminary (1915), Washington University (M.A., 1917), and Yale University Divinity School (B.D., 1923; Ph.D., 1924).
Richard Niebuhr was a complex theologian whom his brother described as the more philosophical of the two famous siblings.
Although often considered Niebuhr's most sociological essay because he used, while modifying, the notions of "church" and "sect" derived from Troeltsch, the theoretical infrastructure of his argument was more readily influenced by the American progressive historians, especially Beard and Turner, rather than Troeltsch.
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 Niebuhr, H. Richard. Papers, 1919-1962.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
Helmut Richard Niebuhr (1894-1962), a leading twentieth-century American Protestant theologian and churchman, is known for his contributions to Christian ethics, for his social analysis of American denominationalism, his interpretation of American religious history, study of American theological education, and authorship of books and essays advancing "theocentric" theology.
The younger brother of theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, Helmut was born in Missouri, and was educated at Elmhurst College, Eden Theological Seminary, Washington University, Yale Divinity School, and Yale University, where he received a PhD in religion in 1924.
The lectures include both single lectures and lectures given in series, such as the Cole Lectures at Vanderbilt University, the Earl Lectures at the Pacific School of Religion, the Stone Lectures at Princeton Theological Seminary, and the Swander Lectures at the Theological Seminary of the Evangelical and Reformed Church.
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Niebuhr was read widely by Christian leaders in the postwar years, most famously by Martin Luther King, Jr., influencing the evolving American postwar national identity.
Niebuhr thought it possible for a historical person symbolically to point beyond himself to an unconditioned eternity, but considered it impossible for any person to be historical and unconditioned at the same time.
Niebuhr, more than any other, was able to see the good and bad of the fundamentalist-liberal controversy.
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 Neo-Orthodoxy
Karl Barth (1886-1968), Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971), Helmut Richard Niebuhr (1894-1962), and Emil Brunner (1889-1965), while differing from one another in some important respects, are influential voices in this stream.
While Barth is the most prominent of the theologians referred to as neo-orthodox, Reinhold Niebuhr and H. Richard Niebuhr have also had import for Mennonites.
Less exegetically oriented than Barth and somewhat more appreciative of human religious experience, the Niebuhr brothers' writings in theological ethics stimulated a flurry of responses by Mennonites on issues of pacifism, distinctions between church and world, and Christian social responsibility.
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 H. R. Niebuhr Online Collections
H.R.N.'s theology (together with that of his colleague at Yale, Hans Frie) has been one of the main sources of post-liberal theology, sometimes called the "Yale School."
Helmut Richard Niebuhr was born in Wright City, Missouri and brought up in a German American Family.
Richard Neibuhr was educated at Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, Illinois; Eden Theological Seminary, Webster Groves, Missouri; and Yale Divinity School.
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Helmut Richard Niebuhr - Niebuhr, Helmut Richard, 1894–1962, American theologian, b.
Reinhold Niebuhr and the Christian century: World War II and the eclipse of the social gospel.
Ecclesiologies in creative tension: the church as ethical and missional reality in H. Richard Niebuhr and John H. Yoder.
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 Reinhold Niebuhr information - Search.com
In 1928, Niebuhr became Professor of Practical Theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York.
His views were formalized in the Gifford lectures published as The Nature and Destiny of Man, which is considered his magnum opus and comes as close as he ever did to a systematic presentation of his practical theology.
Niebuhr has been credited with authorship of the Serenity Prayer used by Alcoholics Anonymous.
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 Marburg Journal of Religion (September 2003) Review: Andrew P. Porter
Although the perspective is obviously wider, Porter’s reasoning is focussed on the western, occidental traditions and their different roots in and influences from other cultures, religions and patterns of thought.
Porter reduces a wide range of monotheistic concepts to a set of ideas or notions such as “Exposure, Limitation and Need”, which could be described as secularized Christianity or a form of Philosophy of Religions based on theological patterns, which are supposed to be fundamental to every human monotheistic worldview.
According to H. Richard Niebuhr, Porter generates two further starting points: the first “is the affirmative stance that biblical religion takes toward life in this world”, the second “is that biblical religion is radically historical” (I, p.
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 NIEBUHR, Helmut Richard
1894 in Wright City, Missouri, U.S.A. Sohn des Pastors Gustav Niebuhr; jüngerer Bruder Reinhold Niebuhrs und Vater von Richard Reinhold Niebuhr.
Ethik des Antwortens und der Verantwortung verspricht, in den gegenwärtigen Debatten eine Quelle zu bleiben; z.B. in der Ökologiefrage oder durch seiner Kritik der westlichen Werte in »Radical Monotheism«.
Niebuhr; Faith on Earth: An Inquiry into the Structure of Human Faith, New Haven, 1989.
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 Niebuhr Family Crest
In continental Europe, the most ancient recorded family crest was discovered upon the monumental effigy of a Count of Wasserburg in the church of St. Emeran, at Ratisobon, Germany...
In the Niebuhr coat of arms as in all coat of arms the crest is only one element of the full armorial achievement.
Heraldry is defined as the hereditary art or science of blazoning, the description is appropriate technical terms of Coats-of-Arms and other heraldic and armorial insignia, and is of very ancient origin...
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Faith on earth : an inquiry into the structure of human faith / by H. Richard Niebuhr ; edited by Richard R. Niebuhr.
Niebuhr, Richard R. Experiential religion [by] Richard R. Niebuhr.
Niebuhr, Richard R. Schleiermacher on Christ and religion.
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 AllRefer.com - Helmut Richard Niebuhr (Protestant Christianity, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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Niebuhr then taught (1919–22 and 1927–31) at Eden Theological Seminary and served (1924–27) as president of Elmhurst College.
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 Niebuhr Coat of Arms
The old German family name Niebuhr is derived from several possible sources, and no doubt different families of this name emerged independently during the era in which surnames first began to be used.
First found in Prussia, where the name emerged in medieval times as one of the notable families of the region.
Some of the first settlers of this name or some of its variants were: Josef Naber, who came to America in 1798; Alexander Neibaur, who came to Utah in 1848; Johann Niebuhr, who arrived in New York, NY in 1851; John P. Niebuhr, who was Naturalized in Charleston, SC in 1849.
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 Reinhold Niebuhr Biography (1892–1971) Online Encyclopedia Article About Reinhold Niebuhr Biography (1892–1971)
Reinhold Niebuhr Biography (1892–1971) Online Encyclopedia Article About Reinhold Niebuhr Biography (1892–1971)
The son of a clergyman and brother of theologian Helmut Richard Niebuhr, he was educated at Elmhurst College (Illinois), Eden Theological Seminary (Missouri), and the Yale Divinity School.
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 Helmut Richard Niebuhr Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
Helmut Richard Niebuhr Books - Signed, used, new, out-of-print
This reissue of a 20th century classic emphasizes an understanding of God's revelation that takes seriously both the Bible itself and modern ideas about the nature of history.
Includes a new Foreword by Ottati, which sets Niebuhr's work in the context of his other writings and explores the significance of this book.
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 Meaning of Revelation by Richard Niebuhr, New, Used Books, Cheap Prices, ISBN 0844660337
This reissue of a twentieth-century classic by H. Richard Niebuhr emphasizes an understanding of God's revelation that takes seriously both the Bible itself and modern ideas about the nature of history.
By his focus on revelation as personal experience, Niebuhr served as the igniting force for views of future theological movements that are still prevalent more than forty years after his death.
First published in 1941, this masterful work is now enhanced with a new introduction by Douglas F. Ottati, which sets Niebuhr's work in the context of his other writings and explores the significance of this book.
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