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	Reinhold Niebuhr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Reinhold Niebuhr (June 21, 1892 – June 1, 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, the son of a liberally minded German-American pastor, Gustav, and the brother of Helmut Richard Niebuhr.
		Niebuhr soon left the Fellowship of Reconciliation, a peace oriented group of theologians and ministers, and became one of their harshest critics.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Reinhold_Niebuhr (744 words)

	Boston Collaborative Encyclopedia of Western Theology: Reinhold Niebuhr
		Reinhold Niebuhr was born in Wright City, Missouri, on June 21, 1892 as the son of Gustav and Lydia 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.
	people.bu.edu /wwildman/WeirdWildWeb/courses/mwt/dictionary/mwt_themes_770_niebuhrreinhold.htm (5024 words)

	Reinhold Niebuhr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Reinhold Niebuhr (June 21, 1892- June 1, 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 optimistic of America, though, in the sense that he saw a move in the right direction despite the failure of racial concerns in American to build up justice or the failure of America’s foreign policy in Vietnam.
		Or as Niebuhr himself puts it reflecting on the work of America to attain this goal, “We have attained a certain equilibrium in economic society by setting organized power against organized power.” In as much, Niebuhr’s work was a great voice within the rising tide of welfare capitalism.
	www.bucyrus.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Reinhold_Niebuhr (798 words)

	Speaking of Faith \| Moral Man and Immoral Society: The Public Theology of Reinhold Niebuhr >> Transcript
		Reinhold Niebuhr wrote the famous "Serenity Prayer" that is recited today by millions, but in his time he was one of America's most influential thinkers and activists.
		Niebuhr felt that that kind of wooden, bristling morality coming from the pulpit was just spiritually deficient itself, and therefore in addition to just being a gradualist on social change, he felt that there were actual spiritual dangers in that kind of moral clear sightedness.
		Reinhold Niebuhr: (archival audio) Because when we say that we believe in God, we're inclined to mean by that that we have found a way to the ultimate source and end of life that gives us, against all the chances and changes of life, some special security and some special favor.
	speakingoffaith.publicradio.org /programs/2005/02/10_niebuhr/transcript.shtml (6061 words)

	FT March 2000: Reinhold Niebuhr: Moral Man and Immoral Society (1932) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		The son of a German immigrant pastor, Niebuhr (1892—1971) was not a popular evangelist but rather a philosopher of public life, bringing the insights of biblical truth to bear on the great issues of politics and social ethics.
		Niebuhr’s pessimistic account was based not merely on observation of the world as it is, but also on a theology which emphasized that sin is endemic to the human condition in history.
		Niebuhr stressed the relevance of agape, or Christian love, not as a directly practicable political principle, but as the ideal toward which justice strives and the standard of judgment on all political achievements in history.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft0003/articles/niebuhr.html (986 words)

	Karl Paul Reinhold Neibuhr Biography
		Niebuhr, Karl Paul Reinhold ("Reinie"), (June 21, 1892 - June 1, 1971), theologian and philosopher, was born in Wright City, Mo., to Gustav Niebuhr, a minister in the Evangelical Synod, a Lutheran offshoot of the Prussian Church Union, and Lydia Hosto.
		Niebuhr wrote that his journal was devoted "to an exposition of our Christian faith in its relation to world events." For more than twenty-five years this journal brought a religious viewpoint to bear on such issues as civil rights, the labor movement, women's equality, government, and war and peace.
		Niebuhr thus seeks to set all moral and social problems under the tension of a religious ideal, avoiding the moral complacency and the social utopianism of secular idealism and the sentimentality of liberal, as well as the enervating pessimism of orthodox, Christianity.
	www.aabibliography.com /neibuhr.html (1987 words)

	Reinhold Niebuhr (1892 - 1971) - By Miles Hodges (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Reinhold Niebuhr was the son of a German-American pastor of an Evangelical and Reformed church in Wright City, Missouri, where Reinhold grew up.
		For Niebuhr, while human nature was capable of depravity it was also able to respond to Divine grace and move forward under the hope of a higher vision.
		Thus Niebuhr's view of human nature remained basically optimistic: that is, as long as people sought the good and remained aware of how easy their motives could turn evil.
	www.newgenevacenter.org /biography/niebuhr2.htm (603 words)

	Boston.com / News / Boston Globe / Ideas / Beyond serenity
		REINHOLD Niebuhr was the most important religious thinker about politics that the United States produced in the 20th century, or possibly ever.
		One might also have guessed that many of Niebuhr's fellow left-liberals would forget him or dismiss him as a rigid Cold Warrior and total wet blanket to their hopes and dreams, or that many of those keeping alive the work of this Protestant preacher would be folk who otherwise had no truck with preachers.
		Niebuhr had come to his core perception, variously elaborated over the years, of the many-sided egotism of human beings -- which is only compounded in groups.
	www.boston.com /news/globe/ideas/articles/2003/12/14/beyond_serenity (1950 words)

	Book Review: Professor Reinhold Niebuhr and Niebuhr and His Age
		Granted, Niebuhr, were he alive today, would probably tolerate a more active federal government than do some neoconservatives who now claim his legacy; but the implication made here, that he would favor greater funding to low-rent public housing-one of the most egregious failures of the liberal welfare state-flies in the face of historical experience.
		Some of Niebuhr's former colleagues and students, having traded in their Christian realism for trendier nouveau theologies, try to present their old friend in a way that will be palatable to the leftist sensibilities of today; but their efforts are inevitably overwhelmed by anti-Niebuhrian liberationists.
		Niebuhr, after all, was always attentive to Nietzsche's critique of the "slave morality," that corrupting ethos by which the powerless manipulate the bad conscience of their erstwhile oppressors, not merely in order to attain justice but also to enact their own will-to-power.
	www.leaderu.com /ftissues/ft9302/reviews/berke.html (1751 words)

	FT October 2002: Was Reinhold Niebuhr a Christian? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971), dubbed “America’s theologian” by the mid-twentieth-century media, had a host of critics during his lifetime.
		Niebuhr has often been taken to task for saying that he understands such terms “seriously, but not literally.” But he intended such comments as expressions of modesty, since we are incapable in our finitude of describing the “furniture of heaven and the temperature of hell.” Yet Niebuhr wrote that while “it is.
		Niebuhr’s minimalist description of our final destiny might not be sufficient for the concluding chapter of a textbook in systematic theology, but it is outrageous to deny that this ethicist and unsystematic theologian did not hold to core biblical testimony about the world to come.
	www.firstthings.com /ftissues/ft0210/opinion/fackre.html (1342 words)

	The Theology of Reinhold Niebuhr (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr was born in Wright City, Missouri, on June 21, 1892.
		Niebuhr thought that doctrines affirming the divinity and humanity of Jesus verge on contradiction in that they ascribe both conditioned and unconditioned qualities to him.
		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.
	www.leaderu.com /isot/docs/niehbr3.html (2358 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: The Essential Reinhold Niebuhr : Selected Essays and Addresses (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Niebuhr was the towering giant of Protestant theology in his time, and also an incisive political thinker during the tumultuous years from the Great Depression to Vietnam.
		Reinhold Niebuhr was one of the giants of twentieth century theology.
		Niebuhr was not only one of the great Protestant theologians of the last century: he was one of very few thinkers ever to have derived a sophisticated and illuminating approach to the worldly order from theological premises.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0300040016?v=glance (1438 words)

	1994 PCTS Niebuhr Paper
		Niebuhr is more emphatic and more explicit than most of the recent theological tradition, even if he presents only the parts of this tripartite schema, without my emphasis on their relationship as a whole.
		Richard Niebuhr was certainly conscious of the pivotal role of history in the structure of monotheistic faith, but he did not inquire into it as a mark differentiating that faith from other options.
		Niebuhr would have agreed: the fourth chapter of Radical Monotheism is devoted to the incomplete process of conversion of life to radical monotheism; it is a conversion from what are functionally mimetic and exilic stances toward life.
	www.jedp.com /hrn-pcts.html (8577 words)

	OpinionJournal - Taste
		Niebuhr was one of them: a socialist, a public intellectual, a darling of the political left.
		Niebuhr owed his own clarity of vision to a deep belief in the existence of evil.
		Niebuhr was horrified at the idea of meeting fascism with pacifist hand-wringing.
	www.opinionjournal.com /taste?id=110001782 (758 words)

	Niebuhr, Reinhold on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Reinhold Niebuhr and the Christian century: World War II and the eclipse of the social gospel.
		Father of neoconservatives: nowadays, the truest disciples of the liberal theologian Reinhold Niebuhr are conservatives.
		Reinhold Niebuhr Moral Man and Immoral Society (1932).
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/N/NiebuhrR1.asp (543 words)

	Reinhold Niebuhr Papers (Library of Congress)
		Copyright in the unpublished writings of Reinhold Niebuhr in these papers and in other collections of papers in the custody of the Library of Congress has been dedicated to the public.
		There are numerous outlines of sermons delivered by Niebuhr and typescripts of articles ranging in subject matter from national and international political affairs to labor and race relations, theology, and economics.
		Niebuhr, H. Richard, 1962 Niebuhr, Ursula, 1969, 1972, 1978 Niebuhr, Walter, n.d.
	www.loc.gov /rr/mss/text/niebuhr.html (3105 words)

	Faith: Theology Page: Just and Unjust Wars (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Reinhold Niebuhr, pictured above, and his brother H. Richard trained two generations of UCC pastors.
		The theologians were H. Richard Niebuhr of Yale University and his brother, Reinhold Niebuhr of Union Theological Seminary in New York.
		In a fallen world, Reinhold Niebuhr replies, Christians cannot act as if the reign of God has already been established, and must sometimes use force to protect the innocent.
	www.ucc.org /theology/brothers.htm (518 words)

	Category List --- Religion-Online.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Dr. Niebuhr thus seeks to set all moral and social problems under the tension of a religious ideal, avoiding the moral complacency and the social utopianism of secular idealism and the sentimentality of liberal, as well as the enervating pessimism of orthodox, Christianity.
		Niebuhr reminds us of the necessity of living in this world, in the tension between it and the "other world," inescapably related to the ethical and social problems of the time.
		Niebuhr analyses the nature of the Christian witness to justice and peace, in the context of post-WW II colonialism.
	www.religion-online.org /listbycategory.asp?Cat=37 (756 words)

	Reader's Companion to American History - -NIEBUHR, REINHOLD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Niebuhr's roots were in the Evangelical Synod, a small German-speaking denomination in which his father was a minister.
		His mother, who would assist Reinhold in his parish work, was the daughter of an Evangelical Synod pastor.
		Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., once said that "Reinhold Niebuhr was the greatest man I knew," and Hubert H. Humphrey as vice president spoke for many: "No preacher or teacher, at least in my time, has had a greater impact on the secular world.
	college.hmco.com /history/readerscomp/rcah/html/ah_065000_niebuhrreinh.htm (636 words)

	Theoblogy Seminar Roots Page
		Yet when Niebuhr criticizes the optimism of liberalism or when Hauerwas criticizes the nationalism of conservatives, each thinker ends up being much more implicated in the assumptions of their opponents than they would like to admit.
		Niebuhr himself was a kind of optimist, who though Christianity could be cleaned up and made acceptable to modern liberals.
		Niebuhr never sheds his optimism or his belief that the American democracy is the best, even though limited, vehicle for the achievement of the Kingdom of God.
	www.seabury.edu /faculty/akma/seminarch/reinstan.html (1523 words)

	Reinhold Niebuhr -- journalist
		Niebuhr certainly rates as one of the most renowned American theologians of the 20th century.
		One of the most appreciative studies of Niebuhr was written by the late conservative evangelical philosopher Edward J. Carnell.
		In this book, Niebuhr addressed the church, but as I reread it last year it struck me he could just as easily have been talking to journalism.
	www.toad.net /~andrews/niebuhr.html (988 words)

	Free Essays on Reinhold Niebuhr
		Niebuhr, Reinhold (1892-1971), American Protestant theologian, whose social doctrines profoundly influenced American theological and political thought.
		An outstanding, although not a systematic, theologian, Niebuhr was notable primarily for his examination of the interrelationships between religion, individuals, and modern society.
		Niebuhr indicated his overriding interest in what has been called theological anthropology, a concern with the nature of man as a contact point for religion and society, in such major works as Moral Man and Immoral Society (1932), Interpretation of Christian Ethics (1935), and The Nature and Destiny of Man (2 volumes, 1941, 1943).
	www.123student.com /4717.htm (419 words)

	Secular Illusions - The right way to rescue America from religious correctness. By Richard Wightman Fox (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Niebuhr welcomed religion into politics but cautioned that politics had to be protected against the fanaticism that religion always tended to spark.
		Niebuhr thought that sustained moral energy in politics depended on religion's power to mobilize reason along with self-transcending love.
		And Niebuhr came close to Jacoby's position when he reflected that secular saints sometimes put religious ones to shame by slogging for justice without any thought of what was in it for them.
	slate.msn.com /id/2101002 (1344 words)

	AllRefer.com - Reinhold Niebuhr (Protestant Christianity, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Reinhold Niebuhr[rIn´hOld nE´boor] Pronunciation Key, 1892–1971, American religious and social thinker, b.
		In the early 1930s he shed his liberal Protestant hopes for the church's moral rule of society and became a political activist and a Socialist.
		After World War II, he dropped much of his social radicalism and preached "conservative realism." In his later works, such as Faith and History (1949), Niebuhr argued for balances of interests and defended Christianity as the world view that best explains the heights and barbarisms of human behavior.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/N/NiebuhrR.html (315 words)

	Niebuhr, Reinhold -- Encyclopædia Britannica (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
		Niebuhr was the son of Gustav and Lydia Niebuhr, who had emigrated to the United States at an early age from Germany.
		Gustav Niebuhr was a minister of the Evangelical Synod of North America, a denomination with a Lutheran and Reformed German background that merged into the Evangelical and Reformed Church in 1934 and is now a part of the United Church of Christ.
		(1894–1962), U.S. theologian and educator, born in Wright City, Mo.; brother of Reinhold Niebuhr; Protestant advocate of theological existentialism; authority on theological ethics and American church history; professor Eden Theological Seminary 1919–22, 1927–31; president Elmhurst College 1924–27; professor of theology and Christian ethics Yale Divinity School from...
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9055774?tocId=9055774 (619 words)

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