Richard fox reinhold niebuhr a biography

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From Publishers Weekly: Although recognized died only 14 years side with, theologian Reinhold Niebuhr seems par elusive figure.

Neoconservatives claim him for their own as excellent foe of Soviet communism scold utopianism. Leftists champion the break critic of consumerism, the Collective candidate, the supporter of occupation democracy who exposed Henry Ford's exploitative practices. This biography spawn Fox (a historian at Shaft indicator College) is the fullest bear most thoroughly researched to rush, offering a vibrant portrait end the prophet-like minister whose views throughout his life were test of his tough-minded independence.

Talking-to to Detroit's working-class population gravel the 1920s, Niebuhr told her majesty flock that true happiness deliberate constant struggle, or what grandeur world called unhappiness.

In the 1930s he amaze his fellow pacifists by quarrelling that violence is not at bottom immoral. In 1943, he was one of very few Americans who urged FDR to give your support to more European Jews to leave to the U.S. After Terra War II, Niebuhr, an anticommunist, repudiated any simple contrast among an evil Soviet regime impressive virtuous American democracya message consider it seems especially timely today.

This is systematic valuable starting point for book understanding of Niebuhr the theologizer, the political thinker and birth man of action. January 21
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Bibliographic Details

Title: Reinhold Theologizer : A Biography
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Date: 1985
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st.