Niebuhr preached:

During the 1920s, Niebuhr spoke out against the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in Detroit, which had recruited many members threatened by the rapid social changes.

The violence that followed peaceful demonstrations in the 1960s forced Niebuhr to reverse his position against imposed equality ; witnessing the problems of the Northern ghettos later caused him to doubt that equality was attainable.

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.

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 it, Yoder argues against popular views of Jesus, particularly those views held by Reinhold Niebuhr, which he believed to be dominant in the day.

Niebuhr defended pluralism by attacking the Klan.

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:

In 1947, Niebuhr helped found the liberal Americans for Democratic Action ( ADA ).

His teachers, especially Niebuhr and Tillich, at Union Theological Seminary, helped him with methods and categories to formulate a powerful and creative theological vision of his own.

King attributed his own non-violent posture more to the influence of Niebuhr and Paul Tillich than to the example of Gandhi.

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.

Both major-party candidates in the 2008 presidential election cited Niebuhr as an influence: Senator John McCain, in his work Hard Call, " celebrated Niebuhr as a paragon of clarity about the costs of a good war.

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.

Mainline churches were basically pacifistic before 1940, but under the influence of people such as Reinhold Niebuhr they supported World War II and the Cold War.

There he wrote a collection of poems entitled Wein-und Wonne-Lieder ( Songs of wine and bliss ), which on his release, through the influence of Niebuhr, were published in Berlin in 1824 under the pen name of “ Franz Arnold .” He fled to England in 1825, and supported himself for a year in London, giving lessons and contributing to German periodicals.

In 1816 he went to the university of Erlangen, where, in addition to being initiated by his father into legal practice, he fell under the influence of the writings of Savigny and Niebuhr.

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.

Niebuhr is widely considered to have been its primary advocate.

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.

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.

Niebuhr, won its way by its unique handling of the subject and its grand style.

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.

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.

Known as ‘ neo-orthodoxy ’, its leading protagonists were Reinhold Niebuhr and Karl Barth.

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.

In 1827 the Geschichte des Kaisertums von Trapezunt was finally published, and met with universal praise from its reviewers, including Barthold Georg Niebuhr and Carl Hase.

According to McGavran, Niebuhr “ used to say that mission was everything the church does outside its four walls.

Of the 91st book Niebuhr says " repetitions are here so frequent in the small compass of four pages and the prolixity so great, that we should hardly believe it to belong to Livy ...." Niebuhr accounts for the decline by supposing " the writer has grown old and become loquacious ...," going so far as to conjecture that the later books were lost because copyists refused to copy such low-quality work.

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.

Niebuhr also contributed papers on the interior of Africa, the political and military condition of the Ottoman Empire, and other subjects to a German periodical, the Deutsches Museum.

Morrison and his pacifistic followers maintained that America's role should be strictly neutral and part of a negotiated peace only, while Niebuhr claimed himself to be a realist, who opposed the use of political power to attain moral ends.

: 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.

: 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.

As a preacher, writer, leader, and adviser to political figures, Niebuhr supported Zionism and the development of Israel.

The epidemic had drastic social and political effects throughout the Roman Empire: Barthold Georg Niebuhr concluded that " as the reign of M. Aurelius forms a turning point in so many things, and above all in literature and art, I have no doubt that this crisis was brought about by that plague ...

He wrote a Masters thesis on the political realism of Hans Morgenthau and Reinhold Niebuhr.

A further tradition stated that Cassius was condemned and his sentence carried out by his own father, although Niebuhr argues that it was impossible that a man who had been thrice consul and twice triumphed should still be in his father's power.

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.

As America entered the World War in 1917, Niebuhr was the unknown pastor of a small German-speaking congregation in Detroit ( it stopped using German in 1919 ).

Niebuhr captured his personal experiences in Detroit in his book Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic.

In 1928, Niebuhr left Detroit to become Professor of Practical Theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York.