Reinhold Niebuhr described the modern idea of ethical and scientific progress as " really a rationalized version of the Christian myth of salvation ".

* Naveh, Eyal J. Reinhold Niebuhr and Non-Utopian Idealism: Beyond Illusion and Despair.

On 4 August Orwell gave a talk at the Adelphi Summer School held at Langham, entitled An Outsider Sees the Distressed Areas ; others who spoke at the School included John Strachey, Max Plowman, Karl Polanyi and Reinhold Niebuhr.

* 1971 – Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian ( b. 1892 )

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* June 21 – Reinhold Niebuhr, American theologian ( d. 1971 )

Neorealism, developed largely within the American political science tradition, seeks to reformulate the classical realist tradition of E. H. Carr, Hans Morgenthau, and Reinhold Niebuhr into a rigorous and positivistic social science.

* Reinhold Niebuhr Moral Man and Immoral Society 1932

While at Union, Buechner studied under such renowned theologians as Reinhold Niebuhr, Paul Tillich, and James Muilenberg, who helped Buechner in his search for understanding:

* Reinhold Niebuhr, theologian

* Reinhold Niebuhr made his summer home in Heath, where in 1934 he first delivered the famous Serenity Prayer.

Two great American theologians, the brothers Reinhold Niebuhr and H. Richard Niebuhr were born in Wright City in 1892 and 1894 respectively.

Subsequent cover-story essays profiled Marian Anderson, Arnold J. Toynbee, Rebecca West and Reinhold Niebuhr.

The title of this book borrows a phrase from the writings of Reinhold Niebuhr.

* June 1 – Reinhold Niebuhr, theologian

Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, for example, commented on the necessity of coercion in preserving the course of justice by warning, " Moral reason must learn how to make coercion its ally without running the risk of a Pyrrhic victory in which the ally exploits and negates the triumph.

Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr (; June 21, 1892June 1, 1971 ) was an American theologian, public intellectual, commentator on politics and public affairs, and longtime professor at Union Theological Seminary.

Reinhold Niebuhr attended Elmhurst College in Illinois and graduated in 1910.

In the " Letter from Birmingham Jail " Martin Luther King wrote, " Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture ; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups tend to be more immoral than individuals ".

In response to this finding, Shapiro conceded that " The new evidence does not prove that Reinhold Niebuhr wrote prayer, but it does significantly improve the likelihood that he was the originator.

* In Niebuhr's honor, New York City named West 120th Street between Broadway and Riverside Drive Reinhold Niebuhr Place.

* Love and Justice: Selections from the Shorter Writings of Reinhold Niebuhr, ed.

* Reinhold Niebuhr on Politics: His Political Philosophy and Its Application to Our Age as Expressed in His Writings ed.

* Niebuhr, Reinhold.

The prominent historian Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. labelled Niebuhr " the most influential American theologian of the 20th century ".

Within the framework of Christian Realism, Niebuhr became a supporter of American action in World War II, anti-communism, and the development of nuclear weapons.

In 1952, Niebuhr published The Irony of American History, in which he interpreted the meaning of the United States ' past.

Niebuhr questioned whether a humane, " ironical " interpretation of American history was credible on its own merits, or only in the context of a Christian view of history.

Historian Arthur Schlesinger described the legacy of Niebuhr as being contested between American liberals and conservatives, both of whom wanted to claim him.

" Andrew Bacevich's book The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism refers to Niebuhr 13 times.

* Rice, Daniel F. Reinhold Niebuhr and John Dewey: An American Odyssey.

Reinhold Niebuhr Revisited: Engagements with an American Original ( 2009 ), old liberals still claim him online review

In the 1930s, he served on The American Committee for the Defense of Leon Trotsky, commonly known as the " Dewey Commission ," with other notable figures such as Sidney Hook, Reinhold Niebuhr, Norman Thomas, Edmund Wilson and chairman John Dewey which had been set up following the first of the Moscow " Show Trials " in 1936.

On October 29, 44 leading clergymen, including Dean Francis B. Sayre, Jr. of Washington National Cathedral, United Presbyterian Church Leader Eugene Carson Blake, Methodist Bishop John Wesley Lord, American Hebrew Congregations President Maurice Eisendrauth, and theologians Paul Tillich and Reinhold Niebuhr, issued a letter commenting on the Jenkins affair: "" We see the Jenkins episode as a case of human weakness.

Despite enjoying some successes, the American Labor Party was tarred by the perceived influence of communists in its organization, which led David Dubinsky of the International Ladies ' Garment Workers ' Union, Alex Rose of the Hat, Cap and Millinery Workers, and theologian Reinhold Niebuhr to leave in order to found the Liberal Party as an explicitly anti-communist alternative.

Drawing upon the work of the mid-century American theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, Beinart argues that, paradoxically, the only way for America to distinguish itself from the predatory imperial powers of the past is to acknowledge its own capacity for evil.

The Niebuhr brothers were Reinhold Niebuhr and H. Richard Niebuhr, two American Christian scholars active in the first half of the 20th century.

" Father of Neoconservatives: Nowadays, the Truest Disciples of the Liberal Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr Are Conservatives ," National Review, Vol.

Other past speakers include such theological superstars as Paul Tillich, Reinhold Niebuhr and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, a German who was instrumental in the Christian resistance against the Third Reich, and Channing E. Phillips, a leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement and the first African-American to receive votes as a presidential nominee at a Democratic National Convention.

In 2006, she was appointed by President George W. Bush to the Council of the National Endowment for the Humanities, and also delivered the prestigious Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh, joining such previous Gifford Lecturers as William James, Hannah Arendt, Karl Barth, and Reinhold Niebuhr.

Reinhold Niebuhr: A Biography.