Viereck Revisited May 25, 2009
In September 1954, when the Times Literary Supplement devoted an issue to American Writing Today, Viereck and Reinhold Niebuhr received by far the lengthiest attention of the several hundred writers discussed. But as postwar American conservatism took shape in the mid- and late 1950s, Viereck s differences with the movement became pronounced. (The American Conservative)
Tanner to lead century-old theological society as its third female president May 15, 2009
Former presidents include Paul Tillich, Reinhold Niebuhr, Cardinal Avery Dulles and Geoffrey Wainwright, the founding editor of Christianity Today. It is a wonderful recognition of her scholarship, teaching and collegiality, which we at Chicago, like the members of ATS, treasure and hold in great esteem, said Richard Rosengarten, Dean of the Divinity School. (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
How Right Was Reagan? May 7, 2009
Diggins s implicit question, Why couldn t Reagan have been more like Reinhold Niebuhr. may not be exactly the right one. (The American Conservative)
Today in History May 3, 2009
Thought for Today: "God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed, and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other." Reinhold Niebuhr, American clergyman and author (1892-1971). Related Searches. (Yahoo News)
This almost-chosen,almost-pregnant land Mar 17, 2009
Asia Times Online :: Middle East News, Iraq, Iran current affairs. BOOK REVIEW This almost-chosen, almost-pregnant land American Babylon by Richard John Neuhaus. (Asia Times Online)
HAROLD “HAL” RAYMOND FRAY JR. died Wednesday, Feb. 11, 2009, Mar 1, 2009
After graduation he entered Union Seminary in New York, N.Y. and studied under Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich. At 29, he graduated with a Master of Divinity and accepted a call at Plymouth Congregational Church, Utica, N.Y. From there he served as Senior Minister at Eliot Congregational UCC in Newton, Mass. (Green Valley News & Sun, AZ)
David Brooks: Hope against faith Feb 24, 2009
These experiences drove me toward the crooked timber school of public philosophy: Michael Oakeshott, Isaiah Berlin, Edward Banfield, Reinhold Niebuhr, Friedrich Hayek, Clinton Rossiter and George Orwell. These writers - some left, some right - had a sense of epistemological modesty. (International Herald Tribune -- Ed/Op)
LETTER: Act's intent is to put Roe v. Wade into law Feb 20, 2009
shumphreys wrote on Feb 19, 2009 8:00 PM:" On a more serious note, sometimes teachers have to pull out all the stops in order to get their message across. I will use first person, second person, royal we, I will tease, slam, use your own argument and tactics against you, whatever it takes to expose the hate and fear and bring it out into the open. If you want to play games, I will play your games. If you want to argue scripture I will counter your argument with conflicting scripture. If you feel... (Mattoon Journal-Gazette, IL)
Journalists Vote Democratic: 1972-2004 Feb 8, 2009
The fact that Obama's religious views are as informed by Abraham Lincoln and Reinhold Niebuhr as they are the Gospels, to some extent, I think that comes from having grown up and seeing firsthand that the world's more complicated than it seems in headlines. It's a messy, unfinished world out there. (MediaResearch.org)
Paradisiacal soul-searching Mar 15, 2008
"The Serenity Prayer," by Reinhold Niebuhr, provides guidance for it: "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." Amen. Reach T&D Columnist Howard D. Hill, Ph. (Orangeburg Times and Democrat, SC)
Spiritually Speaking: Don't panic. Breathe. Feb 8, 2008
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference, trusting that God will make all things right (Credit to Reinhold Niebuhr). Believers believe this: that finally the universe is not just about randomness or chaos or spinning out of control but instead God is behind above and below this entire thing we call reality. (Dover Sherborn Tab, MA)
Connections: Celebrating Abraham Joshua Heschel, one of America's best-known Jewish figures Dec 28, 2007
But no modern Jewish thinker has had as profound an effect on other faiths as Heschel has; the Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr said he was "an authoritative voice not only in the Jewish community but in the religious life of America." Nor has any Jewish theologian since Heschel succeeded in speaking to such a wide range of readers while rigorously attending to the nuances of Judaism. Some of this uniqueness can be felt in the way Heschel approached the woman in the airport. (International Herald Tribune)
The Politics Of Delusional Pundits Dec 23, 2007
Brooks channels the late sociologist David Riesman to declare that Obama is a secure "inner-directed man," who was "forged by the process of discovering his own identity." Then, channeling Abraham Lincoln, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Isaiah Berlin, Brooks expostulates about Obama as a man with a tragic sense of life and acute powers of observation relying chiefly, like the Globe, on Obama's semi-fictional memoir. Brooks offers nothing about politics and knowledge and positions: it's all about... (CBS News)
More than just a light on the hill Dec 22, 2007
"If theologians and church leaders set a high bar for Rudd, others say there is a way to navigate the difficult shoals of politics and faith. Brian Howe, a Uniting Church minister, served as deputy prime minister to Bob Hawke and Paul Keating. Raised with the Methodist passion for social justice, he took comfort in the writings not only of Bonhoeffer but his contemporary, Reinhold Niebuhr, a Lutheran cleric and author of Moral Man and Immoral Society. Niebuhr developed the theory of Christian... (Sydney Morning Herald)
Pankaj Mishra: Confront the clichs Dec 10, 2007
But, as Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr pointed out, the "men of culture", with their developed faculty of reasoning, tend to "give the hysterias of war and the imbecilities of national politics more plausible excuses than the average man is capable of inventing". The "public conversation" about Islam proposed by Amis should not be avoided. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
Hillary Clinton was reshaped by turmoil in the 1960s Oct 21, 2007
In seminary, Jones imbibed Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Reinhold Niebuhr, Christian philosophers who preached social improvement. He had hung out in New York City, tuning in to beat poets. (Boston Globe -- Nation)
Fidelity is important in every relationship Oct 20, 2007
The Citizen, Auburn NY - TEST. The Citizen Voting Booth. (Auburn Citizen, NY)
An argument for intelligent belief Oct 9, 2007
Reinhold Niebuhr, the Protestant theologian who wrote extensively on social and political issues; Abraham Joshua Heschel, the Jewish scholar and civil rights activist; and Dorothy Day, the founder of the Catholic Worker movement and inveterate writer, were deeply thoughtful and well educated people for whom belief was a central part of lives. Telling anyone who knew them that they were stupid would make them laugh. (International Herald Tribune)
University scholars receive distinguished, named professorships Sep 21, 2007
His teaching incorporates 20th-century thinkers, such as Alfred North Whitehead and Reinhold Niebuhr, and local figures, such as Charles Hartshorne and Schubert Ogden, both former professors at the University. He is the author of numerous books, including The Divine Good: Modern Moral Theory and the Necessity of God (1990), Democracy on Purpose: Justice and the Reality of God (2000) and Politics as a Christian Vocation: Faith and Democracy Today (2005). (Univeristy of Chicago Chronicle, IL)
Why Christopher Hitchens Is Wrong About Billy Graham Sep 21, 2007
In years to come critics like Reinhold Niebuhr would challenge his preaching as too simple, too far removed from the complexity of the human condition. But not even Niebuhr questioned the sincerity of Graham's faith or motives. (Time.com)
Other deaths Sep 6, 2007
An author of such nonfiction books as "Courage to Change: An Introduction to the Life and Thought of Reinhold Niebuhr," Ms. Birge also wrote plays and musicals about female historical figures that were produced in regional theaters. Copyright 2007 Globe Newspaper Company. (Boston Globe)
Chomsky: Culture & Responsibility Aug 17, 2007
Or you get respected moralists like Reinhold Niebuhr, who was once called the theologian of the establishment. And the reason is because he presented a framework which, essentially, justified just about anything they wanted to do. (Zmag.org)
Couple has message to noisy bikers - stay away Aug 14, 2007
Citizen wrote on Aug 10, 2007 4:09 PM:" From the Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr.... 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...if you can control the behavior of 400,000 people who have gathered in one area for what is basically a week-long party, you are obviously a more wise individual than I...I await your leadership as to how we change things. ". I don't care what the wrote on Aug 10, 2007 3:52... (Rapid City Journal, SD)
Off-Broadway Opening Set For Play Commissioned By Lied Center Jun 1, 2007
The play, work for three actors loosely based on the teachings of theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, sees Eckert portray Reinhart Poole, an unconventional theologian and teacher of ethics at a seminary. Reinhart, who has been pressured to resign by dogmatic powers within his church, works all night on his last lecture. (Nebraska Statepaper)
The end of innocence May 19, 2007
America's artificial situation in which, as Reinhold Niebuhr once described it, the "paradise of our domestic security is suspended in a hell of global insecurity" managed to survive even Vietnam. The cold war's climate of political conformity was pierced repeatedly by novelists such as Norman Mailer, Gore Vidal, Kurt Vonnegut, Mary McCarthy, EL Doctorow, Russell Banks, Robert Stone, Barbara Kingsolver and Joan Didion. (Guardian Unlimited -- Arts)
Evangelicals Take Anti-Torture Stand Mar 14, 2007
Quoting a wide range of sources including the Bible, Pope John Paul II, Elie Wiesel and theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, the authors say the federal government has a moral obligation to follow international human rights treaties that the U.S. has endorsed. "As American Christians, we are above all motivated by a desire that our nation's actions would be consistent with foundational Christian moral norms," the document says. (Click2Houston, TX)
Faith and Justice Lecture SeriesOpens at Program by Dr. Shinn Mar 14, 2007
A native of Germantown, Ohio, Dr. Shinn is Reinhold Niebuhr Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York City, where he was on the faculty from 1959 to 1985. He was adjunct professor of religion and society at Columbia University from 1962 to 1986 and taught at the New York University Graduate School of Business Administration and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America. (Voices, CT)
The Silence Of The Good People Mar 7, 2007
Countless pages could be written on the difference it would make if religions were able to accept others as human beings, worthy of life, respect, and their own perspective on God, instead of working overtime to prove Reinhold Niebuhr correct in saying groups are more immoral than individuals. Much has been written of how the Nazis dehumanized Jews. (Nebraska Statepaper)
Not Just Camelot's Historian: Mar 2, 2007
Schlesinger favored liberal realism over left-wing utopianism because the latter philosophy posited the existence of a future free from struggle, whereas Schlesinger, deeply influenced by Reinhold Niebuhr, subscribed to a secularized idea of original sin that considered human nature inherently flawed. (He joked that he and his fellow admirers of the midcentury theologian called themselves "Atheists for Niebuhr.") And from John Dewey he took the insight of democracy as a practice that won't ever... (Slate)
ARTHUR SCHLESINGER JR.: 1917-2007Historian who advised Kennedy Mar 2, 2007
" Inspired by the Protestant theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, he argued that pragmatic, reform-minded liberalism, limited in scope, was the best that man could hope for politically. Starting with writing speeches for Adlai Stevenson in both of his presidential campaigns, Schlesinger was a player in big-time Democratic politics. On Jan. 9, 1961, a gray, chilly, afternoon, President-elect Kennedy dropped by Schlesinger's house on Irving Street in Cambridge. He asked the professor to be a special... (San Francisco Chronicle)
An American idol: Arthur Schlesinger Mar 2, 2007
Rather, he wrote about Reinhold Niebuhr, an evangelical minister and professor in the last century who remains a stark contrast to the evangelicals of contemporary times who appear certain and confident on their theological outlook and political agenda. Niebuhr, as Schlesinger carefully pointed out, always gave import to the depravity as well as the greatness of the human condition, reminding his parishioners and students alike that the taint of man's original sin makes mistakes, and therefore... (Orlando Sentinel -- Opinion)
Committed to making a change: Retiring pastor's 'quiet leadership' praised Feb 17, 2007
Recommended read for young pastors: Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic by Reinhold Niebuhr. As a college senior in the 1960s, Jim White expected he would graduate, join the Army and head to Vietnam. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Barack Obama, Candidate for President, is 'UCC' Feb 10, 2007
The Rev. Reinhold Niebuhr, a UCC minister considered to be one of greatest Christian theologians of the 20th century, authored the now-famous Serenity Prayer. Contact: The Rev. J. Bennett Guess, news director, 216-736-2177, 216-403-9862. (PR Newswire)
