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Obama's Favorite Theologian? A Short Course on Reinhold Niebuhr


Obama's Favorite Theologian? A Short Course on Reinhold Niebuhr

There has been speculation about the extent to which the 20th-century theologian has influenced Obama's views on faith, politics and social change.

Obama's Favorite Theologian? A Short Course on Reinhold Niebuhr

Niebuhr is the outstanding public theologian of the 20th century, [but he] has become a figure of obscurity in recent decades, and that's partly because the ...

Opinion | Obama the Theologian - The New York Times

President Obama, like many well-read inhabitants of public life, is a professed admirer of Reinhold Niebuhr, the famous mid-20th-century Protestant theologian.

Obama's Theologian: Reinhold Niebuhr and the American Present

MS. TIPPETT: I'm Krista Tippett. Barack Obama has cited the 20th-century theologian Reinhold Niebuhr as one of his favorite philosophers, an ...

Obama's Niebuhr Problem | Church History | Cambridge Core

As a candidate for president Barack Obama identified Reinhold Niebuhr as one of the most important influences on his political and social ...

Obama's Niebuhr Problem - jstor

Obama: Barack Obama, Reinhold Niebuhr and the Problem of Christian Statecraft (Burlington: ... topic, entitled "Obama's Favorite Theologian? A Short Course on Re.

Niebuhr and Obama - Hoover Institution

Jimmy carter, campaigning in 1976, called Niebuhr his favorite theologian. One wonders if Obama, by calling Niebuhr a philosopher, intentionally ...

Quick Fix: Obama's Favorite Theologian? - YouTube

Dan Harris takes a look at theologian Reinhold Niebuhr's political philosophies.

Reinhold Niebuhr, Barack Obama, and the sense of a reality that ...

Why the course? In a well-known 2007 interview conducted by New York Times columnist David Brooks, then-presidential candidate Barack Obama ...

Reinhold Niebuhr on Obama, the Recession, and Creative Despair

... Obama and Niebuhr. Or in other words, what do you think the implications are that Niebuhr is Obama's favorite philosopher/theologian? Sorry, I'm just not ...

Obama, Gospel and Verse - New York Times

Thirty-six years after his death, Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr seems more alive than ... Brooks that Niebuhr is "one of my favorite ...

Obama Has a Great Teacher: Reformed Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr

Augustine – is a choice that strongly determines one's view of the role of the United States in the world. For example, nothing is farther from ...

Obama Contra Niebuhr | American Enterprise Institute - AEI

Liberals and other admirers discerned in his acceptance speech the sagacity of Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr. From the New Republic to ...

Reinhold Niebuhr - Wikipedia

A public theologian, he wrote and spoke frequently about the intersection of religion, politics, and public policy, with his most influential books including ...

Obama's favorite spiritual thinker | Vancouver Sun

When Barack Obama cited “just-war theory” during his Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech last week, he was relying on the thinking of his ...

Obama's Theologian - Sage Journals

Times interviewed Obama last year. The columnist asked the candidate if he had ever read Reinhold Niebuhr. “I love him. He's one of my favorite philosophers.

Politicians Love to Quote Reinhold Niebuhr. James Comey Actually ...

Niebuhr continues to be the favorite theologian of Americans in public life. In 2010 President Obama appealed to Niebuhr's Christian realism ...

Obama evokes Niebuhr, black church | The Christian Century

Expecting a speech, Americans instead heard a sermon. Drawing on scripture, theology and the rising rhythms of black preaching, ...

U.S. president Barack Obama and Reinhold Niebuhr's Christian ...

U.S. president Barack Obama has called renowned Christian moral and political theologian Reinhold Niebuhr a major intellectual influence. Although Obama's ...

Opinion | Obama, Gospel and Verse - The New York Times

Out of the blue I asked, “Have you ever read Reinhold Niebuhr?” Obama's tone changed. “I love him. He's one of my favorite philosophers.” So ...