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Reinhold Niebuhr

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June 21, 1892 in Wright City, Missouri, The United States

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June 01, 1971

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U.S. theologian. The son of an evangelical minister, he studied at Eden Theological Seminary and Yale Divinity School. He was ordained in the Evangelical Synod of North America in 1915 and served as pastor of Bethel Evangelical Church in Detroit, Mich., until 1928. His years in that industrial city made him a critic of capitalism and an advocate of socialism. From 1928 to 1960 he taught at New York's Union Theological Seminary. His influential writings, which forcefully criticized liberal Protestant thought and emphasized the persistence of evil in human nature and social institutions, include Moral Man and Immoral Society (1932), The Nature and Destiny of Man, 2 vol. (1941 – 43), and The Self and the Dramas of History (1955).

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	Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics by Reinhold Niebuhr, Robin W. Lovin (Introduction), Langdon Brown Gilkey (Introduction) 3.92 avg rating — 217 ratings — published 1932 — 10 editions	My rating:
	The Irony of American History 4.04 avg rating — 172 ratings — 6 editions	My rating:
	The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation : Human Nature (Library of Theological Ethics) 2 Volume Set by Reinhold Niebuhr, Robin W. Lovin (Introduction) 4.10 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 1980 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic by Reinhold Niebuhr, Martin E. Marty (Foreword by) 4.15 avg rating — 55 ratings — published 1957 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness: A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of its Traditional Defense 4.33 avg rating — 45 ratings — published 1950 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Essential Reinhold Niebuhr: Selected Essays and Addresses by Reinhold Niebuhr, Robert McAfee Brown (Editor) 4.00 avg rating — 43 ratings — published 1986 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Nature and Destiny of Man, the Volume 1 4.03 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1940 — 3 editions	My rating:
	An Interpretation Of Christian Ethics by Reinhold Niebuhr, Richard Nieburh 3.70 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 1935 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Beyond Tragedy: Essays on the Christian Interpretation of History 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Nature and Destiny of Man, the Vol. II 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings — 2 editions	My rating:

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Quotes by Reinhold Niebuhr

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”
― Reinhold Niebuhr

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“God grant me the serenity
to accept the things I cannot change;
courage to change the things I can;
and wisdom to know the difference.

Living one day at a time;
Enjoying one moment at a time;
Accepting hardships as the pathway to peace;
Taking, as He did, this sinful world
as it is, not as I would have it;
Trusting that He will make all things right
if I surrender to His Will;
That I may be reasonably happy in this life
and supremely happy with Him
Forever in the next.
Amen. ”
― Reinhold Niebuhr

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“Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we must be saved by love. No virtuous act is quite as virtuous from the standpoint of our friend or foe as it is from our standpoint. Therefore we must be saved by the final form of love which is forgiveness.”
― Reinhold Niebuhr

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