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  • Moral Man and Immoral Society

    A Study in Ethics and Politics

    by Reinhold Niebuhr ...
    Moral Man and Immoral Society, first published in 1932, is Reinhold Niebuhr's important study in ethics and politics. Forthright and realistic, it discussed the inevitability of social conflict, the brutal behaviour 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 ... Read more

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  • The Irony of American History

    by Reinhold Niebuhr ...
    From the theologian President Barack Obama cites as one of his favorite philosophers, "the most important book ever written on foreign policy" (Andrew J. Bacevich, from the introduction).Forged during the tumultuous but triumphant postwar years when America came of age as a world power, The Irony of American History is more relevant now than ever before. Cited by politicians as diverse as Hillary ... Read more

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  • The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness

    A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of Its Traditional Defense

    by Reinhold Niebuhr ...
    "[A] brilliant and creative vindication of democracy . . . a theology of Western culture which remains intellectually unsurpassed." —Larry Rasmussen in Reinhold Niebuhr: Theologian of Public LifeThe Children of Light and the Children of Darkness, first published in 1944, is considered one of the most profound and relevant works by the influential theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, and certainly the ... Read more

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  • Faith and History - A Comparison of Christian and Modern Views of History

    by Reinhold Niebuhr ...
    The theme of this volume was first presented as the Lyman Beecher Lectures On Preaching at the Yale Divinity School in 1945. Some of the same lectures were given, by arrangement, under the Warrack Lectureship On Preaching at the Universities of Glasgow and Aberdeen in Scotland in the winter of 1947. Some of the chapters were used as the basis of lectures given under the Olaf Petri Foundation of ... Read more

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  • Leaves from the Note Book of a Tamed Cynic

    by Reinhold Niebuhr ...
    A guide written for young ministers by renowned theologian Reinhold Niebuhr during his time as a pastor of Bethel Evangelical Church of Detroit. Written as reflections and insights drawn from what he saw as the most challenging but infinitely rewarding calling of pastoral ministry. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and ... Read more

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  • Discerning the Signs of the Times - Sermons for Today and Tomorrow

    by Reinhold Niebuhr ...
    This early work of theology is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. It contains the writings of the twentieth century theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and his thoughts on contemporary religion. This is a fascinating work and is thoroughly recommended for anyone with an interest in the history of religion. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and ... Read more

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  • History of Japan: From Early History to the Present Day

    by Viktoria Niebuhr ...
    History of Japan: From early history to the present dayIntroduction to Japan's historyAre you interested in the history of Japan?Would you like to know more about the peculiarities and characteristics of each Japanese epoch?"Marco Polo was the first to mention the Japanese territory of Eastern Asia around 1300 in his writings. Zipango (the medieval name for Japan in Europe) was in his mind a land ... Read more

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  • Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics (LOA #263)

    Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic / Moral Man and Immoral Society / The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness / The Irony of American History

    by Reinhold Niebuhr ...
    A definitive collection of writings by the theologian and public intellectual who was the conscience of the American Century“One of my favorite philosophers,” remarked Barack Obama about the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) in 2007. President Obama is but one of the many American political leaders—including Jimmy Carter and Martin Luther King Jr.—to be influenced by Niebuhr’s writings. ... Read more

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  • Lincoln's Bishop

    A President, A Priest, and the Fate of 300 Dakota Sioux Warriors

    by Gustav Niebuhr ...
    A history of the Dakota War of 1862, an Episcopal bishop, and his campaign to protect the lives of the Dakota Sioux.It is hard to recall what powerful moral voices Protestant church leaders had in the formative years of the nation. Gustav Niebuhr travels back to the Minnesota frontier of 1862 when Dakota Sioux rose up against pioneering families and slaughtered hundreds. Citizens demanded mass ... Read more

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  • Does civilization need religion?

    A study in the social resources and limitations of religion in modern life

    by Reinhold Niebuhr ...
    In Does Civilization Need Religion? Reinhold Niebuhr examines whether modern society can sustain moral coherence without religious faith, probing both the social necessity and the historical failures of religion. Written in the lucid, argumentative prose of early twentieth-century public theology, the book stands at the intersection of social ethics, Christian realism, and cultural criticism. ... Read more

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  • The Tell El Amarna Period

    by Carl Niebuhr ...
    As early as 1820 it was known in Europe that in Middle Egypt, on the east bank of the Nile, in the district between Minieh and Siut, there lay the remains of a great city of Ancient Egypt. The Prussian exploration expedition of 1842-45 gave special attention to this site, where indeed were found, about sixty miles south of Minieh, extensive ruins, beginning at the village of Haggi Kandil and ... Read more

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  • Niebuhr's Lectures on Roman History (Complete)

    by Barthold Georg Niebuhr ...
    Ancient history divides itself into the history anterior to the rule of Rome, which has many centres, and into the history of Roman rule, wherein there is but one centre, Rome, the action of which extends on all sides. Other nations, like the Egyptians, have acted by their intellectual power upon the foreigner, but were deficient in mind; others, as the barbarian nations of the Celts and other ... Read more

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