Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971)
Auteur van 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 toon meer 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) toon minder
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The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation: Human Nature & Human Destiny 2 Volume set (1943) 490 exemplaren
De kinderen des lichts en de kinderen der duisternis. Een pleidooi voor de democratie en een critiek op haar… (1944) 360 exemplaren
Love and Justice: Selections from the Shorter Writings of Reinhold Niebuhr (LTE) (Library of Theological Ethics) (1957) 107 exemplaren
Man's nature and his communities; essays on the dynamics and enigmas of man's personal and social existence (1965) 67 exemplaren
The Structure of Nations and Empires: A Study of the Recurring Patterns and Problems of the Political Order in Relation… (1959) 28 exemplaren
Reinhold Niebuhr on politics;: His political philosophy and its application to our age as expressed in his writings (1960) 27 exemplaren
Remembering Reinhold Niebuhr: Letters of Reinhold and Ursula M. Niebuhr (2001) — Auteur — 22 exemplaren
A World Without War - An Inquiry into the Basic Factors Which Underlie Possible Roads to Peace (1961) 17 exemplaren
A Nation so conceived; reflections on the history of America from its early visions to its present power (1963) 8 exemplaren
The godly and the ungodly : essays on the religious and secular dimensions of modern life (1958) 3 exemplaren
An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story 3 exemplaren
Rare Reinhold Niebuhr / CHILDREN OF LIGHT AND THE CHILDREN OF DARKNESS 1st ed 1960 [Paperback] Niebuhr, Reinhold 2 exemplaren
Reinhold Niebuhr: His Religious, Social, and Political Thought (The Library of Living Theology, Volume II) (1956) 2 exemplaren
Nature and Destiny of Man Volume 1 1 exemplaar
Prophet from America 1 exemplaar
Do the state and nation belong to God or the devil?: Being the Burge memorial lecture for the year 1937, 1 exemplaar
The Nature & Destiny of Man 1 exemplaar
Talk to students on theological education 1 exemplaar
Consensus in Einer Demokratischen Gesellschaft 1 exemplaar
What the christian hopes for in society 1 exemplaar
Freiheit und Gleichheit 1 exemplaar
Why the christian church is not pacifist 1 exemplaar
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- Gangbare naam
- Niebuhr, Reinhold
- Officiële naam
- Niebuhr, Karl Paul Reinhold
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- NIEBUHR, Karl Paul Reinhold
NIEBUHR Reinhold - Geboortedatum
- 1892-06-21
- Overlijdensdatum
- 1971-06-01
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Wright City, Missouri, USA
- Plaats van overlijden
- Stockbridge, Massachusetts, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- New York, New York, USA
- Opleiding
- Elmhurst College (BA|1910)
Eden Theological Seminary
Yale Divinity School (B.Div.|1914|MA|1915) - Beroepen
- Professor of theology, Union Theological Seminary, New York
- Relaties
- Keppel-Compton, Ursula (echtgenote)
Niebuhr, Helmut Richard (broer) - Organisaties
- American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1953)
Union Theological Seminary - Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- Presidential Medal of Freedom (1964)
- Korte biografie
- 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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