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Niebuhr resorts to the formula of “original sin” to explain why evil in history belongs to man. “Man being both free and bound, both limited and limitless is anxious. Anxiety is the inevitable concomitant of the paradox of freedom and finiteness in which man is involved. Anxiety is the internal precondition of sin.
Feb 10, 2021 · Abstract. Reinhold Niebuhr was a theologian, writer, and public intellectual who influenced religious leaders and social activists in the United State over four crucial decades in the middle of the twentieth century. This Handbook begins by tracing the development of his work through those years and provides an introduction to the dialogue ...
104 quotes from Reinhold Niebuhr: 'God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.', 'Lord, grant me the strength to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.', and 'Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime ...
Jun 2, 1971 · The Rev. Reinhold Niebuhr, the Protestant theologian who had wide influence in the worlds of religion and politics, died last evening at his sum mer home in Stockbridge, Mass., after a long illness.
Reinhold Niebuhr, often considered America's greatest Protestant theologian and one of its most influential social critics, had a major impact on twentieth-century political life. Niebuhr helped shape the field of Christian social ethics; promote movements for Christian socialism and political realism; create organizations such as the ...
Moral Man and Immoral Society. Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics is a 1932 book by Reinhold Niebuhr, an American Protestant theologian at Union Theological Seminary (UTS) in New York City. [1] The thesis of the book is that people are more likely to sin as members of groups than as individuals.
113 Copy quote. Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary. Reinhold Niebuhr. Freedom, Integrity, Adversity. The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness foreword (1944) 144 Copy quote.
