Reinhold Niebuhr
Biographic Data
| ID | 339730 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Reinhold Niebuhr |
| GIVEN NAMES | Reinhold |
| FAMILY NAME | Niebuhr |
| SIGNATURE | NIEBUHR R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Union Theological Seminary |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 124 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1936 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness: A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of Its Traditional Defense
One of the foremost philsophers and theologians of the twentieth century, Reinhold Niebuhr was for many years a Professor at Union Theological Seminary, New York City. He is the author of many classics in their field, including The Nature and Destiny of Man, Moral Man and Immoral Society, The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness, and Discerning the Signs of Our Times. He was also the founding editor of the publication Christianity and C…
The Irony of American History
"Composed during the postwar years when America came of age as a world power, The Irony of American History is as relevant as ever today. Niebuhr's masterpiece on the incongruity between personal ideals and political reality is both an indictment of American moral complacency and a warning against the arrogance of virtue. Impassioned and eloquent, his wisdom encourages us to rethink our assumptions about right and wrong, war and peace." -- Book c…
Moral man and immoral society: A Study in Ethics and Politics
Moral Man and Immoral Society is Reinhold Niebuhr's important early study in ethics and politics. Forthright and realistic, it discusses the inevitability of social conflict, the brutal behavior of human collectives of every sort, the inability of rationalists and social scientists to even imagine the realities of collective power, and, ultimately, how individual morality can overcome social immorality."--BOOK JACKET
Christianity and Modern Politics
Cet article fait partie d'une vaste tradition critique. On y trouve l'esquisse de deux theses. La premiere est que, plus que jamais, les forces qui dominent l'economie capitaliste se montrent insatiables et resolues a obtenir des profits mirobolants, peu importe les souffrances et les destructions que ce dechainement provoquera. La seconde these evoque la premiere ecole de Francfort : la culture occidentale se trouve dans un etat desolant parce q…
Toward Empirical Democratic Theory: Research Strategies and Tactics
The cultural crisis of our age
American Hegemony and the Prospects for Peace
The problems of a tolerable and enduring peace under the circumstances of tentative peace through balance of terror are political. The contest of power is between two blocs, each built around a hegemonic nation of imperial tech nological, economic, and military strength. Democracy may be a necessity of justice, but the authoritarian oligarchy of the Soviet Union changed a backward and feudal Russia into a technically competent modern state, a mat…
The Structure of Nations and Empires: A Study of the Recurring Patterns and Problems of the Political Order in Relation to the Unique Problems of the Nuclear Age
The christian moral witness and some disciplines of modern culture
Christianity in a Revolutionary Age: A History of Christianity in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
The Structure of Nations and Empires
The Structure of Nations and Empires: A Study of the Recurring Patterns and Problems of the Political Order in Relation to the Unique Problems of the Nuclear Age
The Church in the World
The dialogue between the will and conscience of the self
Free Society and Moral Crisis
The Tyranny of Science
Christian realism and political problems
American Attitudes on World Organization
WE ARE fast approaching the day when a whole generation will have come of age since the beginning of World War II. In four years, we will begin drafting young men who were just being born as the armies of Hitler swept into Poland in 1939. The generation of Americans who fought in that war are approaching middle age. Time has slipped away rapidly since the most devastating of all wars, but time has not stilled the fears of the people over war. Our…
The Irony of American History
The Irony of American History. By Reinhold Niebuhr. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. xi + 174 pp. $2.50.) John Higham John Higham University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 39, Issue 2, September 1952, Pages 357–358, https://doi.org/10.2307/1892226 Published: 01 September 1952
The Irony of American History
Coherence, Incoherence, and Christian Faith
Anxiety
Helpful
A Protest Against a Dilemma's Two Horns
Both our idealists and our realists conceive patterns which are too logical for the tortuous course of human history. They both persist in confronting us with two horns of a dilemma and beg us to choose between them. All idealistic schemes of world peace insist that we must either achieve world government or resign ourselves to an inevitable war; we must find some way of reaching an understanding with the Russians or face the consequences of a wo…
The Theory and Practice of Unesco
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is in the paradoxical position of performing most useful and necessary functions in the nascent world community but of giving very implausible reasons for the performance of its functions. Assistant Secretary of State George V. Allen, who was until recently responsible for the United States government's UNESCO policy, reported after the Paris UNESCO conference in 1949 that the o…
Moral man and immoral society: A Study in Ethics and Politics
Moral Man and Immoral Society is Reinhold Niebuhr's important early study in ethics and politics. Forthright and realistic, it discusses the inevitability of social conflict, the brutal behavior of human collectives of every sort, the inability of rationalists and social scientists to even imagine the realities of collective power, and, ultimately, how individual morality can overcome social immorality."--BOOK JACKET
Christian realism and political problems
The Theory and Practice of Unesco
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is in the paradoxical position of performing most useful and necessary functions in the nascent world community but of giving very implausible reasons for the performance of its functions. Assistant Secretary of State George V. Allen, who was until recently responsible for the United States government's UNESCO policy, reported after the Paris UNESCO conference in 1949 that the o…
Christian Faith and Natural Law
Toward Empirical Democratic Theory: Research Strategies and Tactics
American Hegemony and the Prospects for Peace
The problems of a tolerable and enduring peace under the circumstances of tentative peace through balance of terror are political. The contest of power is between two blocs, each built around a hegemonic nation of imperial tech nological, economic, and military strength. Democracy may be a necessity of justice, but the authoritarian oligarchy of the Soviet Union changed a backward and feudal Russia into a technically competent modern state, a mat…
A Protest Against a Dilemma's Two Horns
Both our idealists and our realists conceive patterns which are too logical for the tortuous course of human history. They both persist in confronting us with two horns of a dilemma and beg us to choose between them. All idealistic schemes of world peace insist that we must either achieve world government or resign ourselves to an inevitable war; we must find some way of reaching an understanding with the Russians or face the consequences of a wo…
The Illusion of World Government
A contrasting view to the one expressed in the previous article by Harold C. Urey is given in the following article by Reinhold Niebuhr, in which he points out the limits of the human will in creating government and the limits of government in creating the social tissue necessary to sustain it. We gratefully acknowledge the kind permission of the editor of FOREIGN AFFAIRS, in which the article first appeared
The cultural crisis of our age
Free Society and Moral Crisis
The Tyranny of Science
Which Way, Great Britain?—will it be France, or Germany? War or Peace
Essay| November 01 1936 Which Way, Great Britain?—will it be France, or Germany? War or Peace? Reinhold Niebuhr Reinhold Niebuhr Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Current History (1936) 45 (2): 35–40. https://doi.org/10.1525/curh.1936.45.2.35 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Twitter LinkedIn Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite I…
Individuality in a Collective World.Barbara Spofford Morgan
Christian Faith and Natural Law
The Nature and Destiny of Man. A Christian Interpretation. Part One: Human Nature
The Nature and Destiny of Man
The Ecumenical Issue in the United States
The nature and destiny of man: A Christian interpretation.
The Validation of the Christian View of Life and History
The Illusion of World Government
A contrasting view to the one expressed in the previous article by Harold C. Urey is given in the following article by Reinhold Niebuhr, in which he points out the limits of the human will in creating government and the limits of government in creating the social tissue necessary to sustain it. We gratefully acknowledge the kind permission of the editor of FOREIGN AFFAIRS, in which the article first appeared
Meaning in History. Karl Löwith
Anxiety
Helpful
A Protest Against a Dilemma's Two Horns
Both our idealists and our realists conceive patterns which are too logical for the tortuous course of human history. They both persist in confronting us with two horns of a dilemma and beg us to choose between them. All idealistic schemes of world peace insist that we must either achieve world government or resign ourselves to an inevitable war; we must find some way of reaching an understanding with the Russians or face the consequences of a wo…
The Theory and Practice of Unesco
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is in the paradoxical position of performing most useful and necessary functions in the nascent world community but of giving very implausible reasons for the performance of its functions. Assistant Secretary of State George V. Allen, who was until recently responsible for the United States government's UNESCO policy, reported after the Paris UNESCO conference in 1949 that the o…
Coherence, Incoherence, and Christian Faith
The Irony of American History
The Irony of American History. By Reinhold Niebuhr. (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1952. xi + 174 pp. $2.50.) John Higham John Higham University of California, Los Angeles Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 39, Issue 2, September 1952, Pages 357–358, https://doi.org/10.2307/1892226 Published: 01 September 1952
The Irony of American History
Christian realism and political problems
American Attitudes on World Organization
WE ARE fast approaching the day when a whole generation will have come of age since the beginning of World War II. In four years, we will begin drafting young men who were just being born as the armies of Hitler swept into Poland in 1939. The generation of Americans who fought in that war are approaching middle age. Time has slipped away rapidly since the most devastating of all wars, but time has not stilled the fears of the people over war. Our…
The Tyranny of Science
The dialogue between the will and conscience of the self
Free Society and Moral Crisis
The Church in the World
The Structure of Nations and Empires: A Study of the Recurring Patterns and Problems of the Political Order in Relation to the Unique Problems of the Nuclear Age
The christian moral witness and some disciplines of modern culture
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