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Reinhold Niebuhr

Reinhold Niebuhr

Reinhold Niebuhr föddes den 21 juni 1892 och dog den 1 juni 1971 - US theologian
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Democracies are indeed slow to make war, but once embarked upon a martial venture are equally slow to make peace and reluctant to make a tolerable, rather than a vindictive, peace.

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

There are evidently limits to the achievements of science; and there are irresolvable contradictions both between prosperity and virtue, and between happiness and ``the good life,'' which had not been anticipated in our philosophy.

The mastery of nature is vainly believed to be an adequate substitute for self mastery.

If we survive danger it steels our courage more than anything else

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed

The Christian doctrine of sin in its classical form offends both rationalists and moralists by maintaining the seemingly absurd position that man sins inevitably and by a fateful necessity but that he is nevertheless to be held responsible for actions which are prompted by an ineluctable [inescapable] fate.

Evil is not to be traced back to the individual but to the collective behavior of humanity.

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