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both Flugel and Ranyard West deal with the development and nature of conscience, as do such theologians as Niebuhr and Buber.
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Löh and Niebuhr in 1992 found some huge Carmichael numbers, including one with 1, 101, 518 factors and over 16 million digits.
According to Niebuhr " this pestilence must have raged with incredible fury ; it carried off innumerable victims.
However at least as early as 1810, when B. G. Niebuhr pointed out that these excerpts were from a speech, and not part of the narrative of his book, this theory has been recognized as conflicting with other known historical facts.
Bancroft capped off his education with a European tour, in the course of which he sought out almost every distinguished man in the world of letters, science and art, including Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Friedrich Daniel Ernst Schleiermacher, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Lord Byron, Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Christian Charles Josias Bunsen, Friedrich Karl von Savigny, Varnhagen von Ense, Victor Cousin, Benjamin Constant and Alessandro Manzoni.
He was later approached by Carsten Niebuhr to identify the coins which he brought with him from his travels.
An important consequence of his residence in Berlin was his friendship with Niebuhr and Eichhorn.
Mention should also be made of his Animadversiones historicae ( 1685 ), which may be said to have laid the foundations of historical criticism, and of his treatises on the Roman republic, alluded to by Niebuhr as marking the beginning of the new era of historical study with which his own name is associated.
The historian Ronald H. Stone thinks that Niebuhr never talked to the assembly line workers ( many of his parishioners were skilled craftsmen ) but projected feelings onto them after discussions with Rev.
In 1923, Niebuhr visited Europe to meet with intellectuals and theologians.
The pact was severely challenged by the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, and in 1932, with his publication of Moral Man and Immoral Society, Niebuhr broke ranks with The Christian Century and supported interventionism and power politics, culminating in his support of the reelection of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940 and the publication of his own magazine, Christianity and Crisis.
: The contemporary liberal's fascination with Niebuhr, I suggest, comes less from Niebuhr's dark theory of human nature and more from his actual political pronouncements, from the fact that he is a shrewd, courageous, and right-minded man on many political questions.
After Joseph Stalin signed the Molotov – Ribbentrop Pact with Adolf Hitler in August 1939, Niebuhr severed his past ties with any fellow-traveler organization having any known Communist leanings.
: Most U. S. liberals think of Niebuhr as a solid socialist who has some obscure connection with Union Theological Seminary that does not interfere with his political work.
King invited Niebuhr to participate in the Selma to Montgomery March in 1965, and Niebuhr responded by telegram: ‘‘ Only a severe stroke prevents me from accepting … I hope there will be a massive demonstration of all the citizens with conscience in favor of the elemental human rights of voting and freedom of assembly ’’ ( Niebuhr, 19 March 1965 ).
Niebuhr exerted a significant influence upon mainline Protestant clergy in the years immediately following World War II, much of it in concord with the neo-orthodox and the related movements.
Reinhold Niebuhr Revisited: Engagements with an American Original ( 2009 ), old liberals still claim him online review

Niebuhr and religious
Niebuhr was a strong proponent of the " Jerusalem " religious tradition as a corrective to the secular " Athens " tradition insisted upon by Dewey.
Two years later, in a review of Dewey's book A Common Faith ( 1934 ), Niebuhr was surprisingly calm and respectful towards Dewey's " religious footnote " on his then large body of educational and pragmatic philosophy.
Two years later, Niebuhr defended King ’ s decision to speak out against the Vietnam War, calling him ‘‘ one of the greatest religious leaders of our time .’’ Niebuhr asserted: ‘‘ Dr.
Reinhold Niebuhr, a religious philosopher, chaired an arbitration group which included the America Civil Liberties Union ’ s Roger Nash Baldwin, the educator George Counts, and the socialist Norman Thomas.

Niebuhr and liberals
While after World War II most liberals endorsed integration, Niebuhr focused on achieving equal opportunity.
Historian Arthur Schlesinger described the legacy of Niebuhr as being contested between American liberals and conservatives, both of whom wanted to claim him.

Niebuhr and over
The historian Niebuhr suggests that Cassius ' sons may have been expelled by the patricians from their order, or that they or their descendants may have voluntarily passed over to the plebeians, because the patricians had shed the blood of their father.
Like Edmund Burke, Niebuhr endorsed natural evolution over imposed change and emphasized experience over theory.
Other notable writers published by the Century over its long history include Jane Addams, Reinhold Niebuhr, Martin Luther King Jr., Richard John Neuhaus, and Albert Schweitzer.
The work was lost to modern scholars, until, in 1816, a palimpsest was discovered by BG Niebuhr in the chapter library of Verona, in which some of the works of St Jerome were written over some earlier writings, which proved to be the lost work of Gaius.
The cuneiform inscriptions of Persia had for some time been attracting attention in Europe ; exact copies of them had been published by the Dutch artist Cornelis de Bruijn and the Danish traveller Niebuhr, who lost his eyesight over the work ; and Grotefend's friend, Tychsen of Rostock, believed that he had ascertained the characters in the column, now known to be Persian, to be alphabetic.

Niebuhr and what
Niebuhr was born the son of a small farmer in Lüdingworth ( now a part of Cuxhaven, Lower Saxony ) in what was then Bremen-Verden.

Niebuhr and called
The portraits of many famous professors since the earliest days hang in the university aula, one of the most memorable places, as Niebuhr called it, in the history of science.
President Barack Obama has cited Niebuhr as his favorite philosopher, while former President Jimmy Carter has called Niebuhr his favorite theologian.
But very few of those whom I have called " atheists for Niebuhr " follow this inverted logic to its conclusion: they don't move from praise of Niebuhr's theory of human nature to praise of its theological ground.
His work was inspired by a radical version of Christianity called the Social Gospel, influenced by Reinhold Niebuhr among others, and a Marxist critique of the Southern economy.
In 1978 Ross T. Christensen noted the existence of a location in Yemen called " Nehhm " on an early map produced by Carsten Niebuhr as the result of a scientific expedition sent out by King Frederick V of Denmark.

Niebuhr and their
The traditional chronology, as codified by Varro, allots 243 years for their reigns, an average of almost 35 years, which, since the work of Barthold Georg Niebuhr, has been generally discounted by modern scholarship.
During the 1930s, Niebuhr was a prominent leader of the militant faction of the Socialist Party of America, although he disliked die-hard Marxists by calling their beliefs a religion and a thin one at that.
Niebuhr soon left the Fellowship of Reconciliation, a peace-oriented group of theologians and ministers, and became one of their harshest critics.
While many clergy proclaimed themselves pacifists because of their World War I experiences, Niebuhr declared a victory by Germany and Japan would threaten Christianity.
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 ".
Niebuhr, who mentions these distinctions, conjectures that among the gradual changes of the constitution from a monarchy to an aristocracy, the Valeria gens for a time possessed the right that one of its members should exercise the kingly power for the Tities, to which tribe the Valerii must have belonged, as their Sabine origin indicates ; but on this point, as on many others in early Roman history, it is impossible to come to any certainty.
Their primitivist desire for noninstitutional Christianity was influenced by liberal, postmillennial idealism, and their attitudes influenced neo-orthodox theologian Reinhold Niebuhr.
His senior thesis analyzed the liberal theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and the conservative televangelist Jerry Falwell, emphasizing their common belief in public action.

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