Two What's So Bad About Reinhold Niebuhr?

Two What's So Bad About Reinhold Niebuhr? - Oxford Academic

Though some feminists have labeled Niebuhr as a primary antagonist, the distance between Niebuhr and many feminist theologians is not as great as it might seem ...

The Myth of Reinhold Niebuhr's Political Realism

Niebuhr is extensively referenced (seven times) in Carr's text, and given a special tribute in the Preface; clearly Carr was a great admirer of ...

The Disputed Legacy of Reinhold Niebuhr by Matthew Berke | Articles

This in part is what Niebuhr meant when he insisted that “we cannot do good without also doing evil,” since legitimate assertions of power are ...

My obsession with Reinhold Niebuhr - godblog

It is Niebuhr's ability to hold two contradictory ideas at the same time that ... bad to hell, but a judgment that distinguishes good from evil.

The Soundness of Reinhold Niebuhr - The Imaginative Conservative

When recently I had the opportunity to bring out that essay again, I found that I had been dead wrong, and so deleted it from a volume of my ...

Reinhold Niebuhr and the Problem of Paradox - Providence

Given the example of Jesus, Niebuhr maintained that the Christian norm is non-resistance against evil. Therefore, waging war against Nazi ...

An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story

He calls us all to realize that the “evil in the foe” is so often the evil in the self. Too often we tend to ignore that, but we do so at great ...

Five Things You Should Know About Reinhold Niebuhr

Two, the prayer is a reminder that Niebuhr was a pastor ... You can help Christianity Today uplift what is good, overcome what is evil ...

Reinhold Niebuhr as Archetype of Failed Peace due to Inadequate ...

Some might, given the right circumstance, improve themselves incrementally but the evil condition of human nature is universal and mostly ...

Reinhold Niebuhr - Commentary Magazine

But I think he falls short of his goal: he gets the book wrong in several ways, and misconstrues some of Niebuhr's views in the process. First ...

An Interview with Reinhold Niebuhr | Commonweal Magazine

It has what I would call a comprehension of the source and substance of human existence. I see in modern Catholicism a great lesson for all Protestants. Here we ...

Colin Dueck Christianity & National Security 2021 - Providence

... a conscientious choice of what might necessarily be the lesser evil. As he put it, “whatever may be wrong with the British empire, it's ...

Niebuhr, Reinhold

King later evaluated Niebuhr's contribution to theology as a rebuttal of “the false optimism characteristic of a great segment of Protestant liberalism” (King, ...

Niebuhr on the Crisis of Our Civilization | The Russell Kirk Center

They “are both strong and weak, both free and bound, both blind ... what is relatively good against explicit evil.” More fundamentally ...

What Realists Get Wrong About Niebuhr - The American Interest

What Realists Get Wrong About Niebuhr. Paul D. Miller ... Niebuhr noticed that apologies for autocracy must argue that strong government is ...

Why Reinhold Niebuhr matters now | Sam Haselby - The Guardian

Niebuhr was never an original theologian, nor a systematic thinker. His reputation as a liberal cold warrior, however, does not do justice to ...

Reinhold Niebuhr combined “tough-minded political realism with a ...

One key opinion that infused both his theological and secular work was that ... President Obama has expressed his great admiration for Niebuhr as ...

Thinking With, and Teaching About, the Niebuhr Brothers — Healan ...

... a bit of both, like the majority of the Niebuhr Society's members. ... Healan Gaston, “'A Bad Kind of Magic': The Niebuhr Brothers on ...

The Wisdom of Reinhold Niebuhr - St. John's Berkeley

... wrong. Enter Reinhold Niebuhr, a mid-20th century American theologian, a Presbyterian who wrote his two great works just before and during WWII. Niebuhr is ...

Reinhold Niebuhr and the Second World War - AEI

... a conscientious choice of what might necessarily be the lesser evil. As he puts it, “Whatever may be wrong with the British Empire… it is ...