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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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Werken van Reinhold Niebuhr

The Irony of American History (1952) 572 exemplaren
An Interpretation of Christian Ethics (1935) — Auteur — 357 exemplaren
Justice and mercy (1974) 81 exemplaren
Essays in applied Christianity (1959) 70 exemplaren
Pious and secular America (1958) 57 exemplaren
Discerning the signs of the times (1946) 33 exemplaren
Christianity and power politics (1948) 25 exemplaren
Does Civilization Need Religion? (1927) 24 exemplaren
Geloof in de politiek (1968) 19 exemplaren
Mississippi Black Paper (1965) 11 exemplaren
Reflections on the end of an era (1934) 11 exemplaren
Jews after the war (essay) (1942) 1 exemplaar

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On Religion (1957) — Introductie, sommige edities257 exemplaren
The Philosophy of History in Our Time (1959) — Medewerker — 217 exemplaren
Leading From Within: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead (2007) — Medewerker — 100 exemplaren
War in the Twentieth Century (Library of Theological Ethics) (1992) — Medewerker — 54 exemplaren

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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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Arguably his most famous book, Moral Man and Immoral Society is Reinhold Niebuhr's important early study (1932) in ethics and politics. Widely read and continually relevant, this book marked Niebuhr's decisive break from progressive religion and politics toward a more deeply tragic view of human nature and history. Forthright and realistic, Moral Man and Immoral Society argues that individual morality is intrinsically incompatible with collective life, thus making social and political conflict inevitable. Niebuhr further discusses our inability to imagine the realities of collective power; the brutal behavior of human collectives of every sort; and, ultimately, how individual morality can mitigate the persistence of social immorality.… (meer)
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54
Ook door
10
Leden
5,316
Populariteit
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Waardering
4.1
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ISBNs
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Talen
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