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...while back New York Congressman Jonathan Bingham slipped Jimmy Carter a 414-page book, saying that he wanted Carter to have it even though he knew he was too busy to read it right away. The book, Courage to Change: An Introduction to the Life and Thought of Reinhold Niebuhr, was by Bingham's wife June. Carter fixed his determined gaze on Bingham and replied, "I shall read it within the month...
Roger Shinn, Reinhold Niebuhr professor of social ethics at New York City's Union Theological Seminary, believes that "religious wars tend to be extra furious. When people fight over territory for economic advantage, they reach the point where the battle isn't worth the cost and so compromise. When the cause is religious, compromise and conciliation seem to be evil." Possibly the transcendent nature of both religion and war encourages an especially lethal kind of fanaticism. As Shinn says, "War is one of the few occasions when people are asked to give of themselves in a cause that...
Died. Martin Heidegger, 86, seminal German philosopher whose explorations of the nature of being influenced modern theologians like Reinhold Niebuhr as well as existentialists like Jean-Paul Sartre; of circulatory disease; in Messkirch, West Germany (see EDUCATION...
...especially when he says that a woman's place is with her husband, and that she should keep quiet and cover her head in church. I just can't go along with him on that." Carter also has read deeply from the works of religious thinkers such as Reinhold Niebuhr, Karl Earth, Paul Tillich and Soren Kierkegaard and quotes from them. In particular, he is fond of this sentence from Niebuhr: "The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world...
...that address, Carter said in part: "One of the sources for my understanding about the proper application of criminal justice and the system of equity is from reading Reinhold Niebuhr ... The other source of my understanding about what's right and wrong in this society is from a friend of mine, a poet named Bob Dylan. After listening to his records ... I've learned to appreciate the dynamism of change in a modern society." Carter went on to scold the lawyers and judges in the audience for not caring more about the legal and moral rights of society's underdogs...