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Jun 17, 2024 · Reinhold Niebuhr, American Protestant theologian who had extensive influence on political thought and whose criticism of the prevailing theological liberalism of the 1920s significantly affected the intellectual climate within American Protestantism.
Jun 17, 2024 · theological existentialism. Helmut Richard Niebuhr (born Sept. 3, 1894, Wright City, Mo., U.S.—died July 5, 1962, Greenfield, Mass.) was an American Protestant theologian and educator who was considered a leading authority on ethics and U.S. church history. He was a foremost advocate of theological existentialism.
6 days ago · Author of more than a dozen books on theology, politics, and ethics, Niebuhr influenced people not only in his day but even up to the present, ranging from Jimmy Carter and Barack Obama on the left to John McCain and David Brooks on the right.
6 days ago · Robert E. Fitch in a 1952 paper, “ Reinhold Niebuhr as Prophet and as Philosopher of History,” has given something of a sympathetic overview of Niebuhr’s conception of history, which he conveniently formulates as ten points:
May 31, 2024 · Reinhold Niebuhr “regularly used [the Four Quartets] as devotional reading,” according to Eliot scholar Bernard Bergonzi. Niebuhr once acted in a parody of Eliot’s play Murder in the Cathedral .
Jun 1, 2024 · On this day in 1971 American pastor, academic and theologian Reinhold Niebuhr died. Born into a devout German immigrant family, Niebuhr worked in Detroit for many years and was outspoken in his support of workers’ rights as well as against Nazism, McCarthyism and racism.
May 31, 2024 · Since Niebuhr first came to the world's attention as a critic of social conditions, the book begins with an examination of his social thought, especially as a Christian ethicist, proceeding from this to the political sphere.
