Tim Beach-Verhey on H. Richard Niebuhr
The blog "Faithful Citizenship" has a very good conversation with Timothy Beach-Verhey on the continuing importance of H. Richard Niebuhr. Tim's recent book, Robust Liberalism: H. Richard Niebuhr and...
View ArticleReinhold Niebuhr: Justice and the Death Penalty
The New Republic has another Reinhold Niebuhr essay from the 1950s available on their site. This one is Niebuhr's reflection on justice and the death penalty. Excerpt:While this exhaustive analysis of...
View ArticleNew Editions of Classic Niebuhr Texts
Westminster John Knox Press, as part of its Library of Christian Ethics series, has recently reissued two of Niebuhr's best known works.The first is Moral Man and Immoral Society, with a foreward by...
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Does Christianity really prefer charity to government welfare? - The Week
he role of private charity versus that of state-sponsored social programs remains a hotly contested issue in Right vs. Left politics, with the Right typically favoring a heavy or total reliance upon...
View ArticleNew Niebuhr Book from Italy!
«La capacità di giustizia dell’uomo rende possibile la democrazia, ma la sua inclinazione all’ingiustizia rende la democrazia...
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Who Wrote the Serenity Prayer? - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of...
By Fred R. ShapiroIn 2008 I made the front page of The New York Times by asserting that the greatest American theologian of the 20th century, who was also perhaps the greatest American political...
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Book Review: ‘Trouble in Goshen’
The Great Depression emboldened Americans to tolerate radical experimentation in search of solutions to economic problems. Amongst the thorniest of those problems was that of Southern poverty. Indeed,...
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Why Reinhold Niebuhr Supported Israel, Gustav Niebuhr and Elisabeth Sifton
In February 1942, the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr appealed for the United States and Great Britain, as a binding goal in the war against Hitler's Germany, to commit to creating "a genuine homeland" for...
View ArticleWhat the critics of Pope Francis miss | National Catholic Reporter
Pope Francis as a Niebuhrian ....What the critics of Pope Francis miss | National Catholic Reporter.
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