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Into this comforting, wan world of theological thought came Reinhold Niebuhr, loosing the sobering wind of "Christian realism." Original sin stemming from Adam's fall was to be taken seriously but not literally, said Niebuhr. Man's great sin was willful pride, a universally "entrenched predatory self-interest" that exists in everyone, "benevolent or not." To ignore this basic reality-and man's need to struggle constantly against it-could only lead to moral and political confusion. The individual, Niebuhr contended, cannot excuse his immoral actions by "attributing them to the actions of others, even though there...
...third-place position in the crowded contest that, after a runoff, was finally won by Lester Maddox. Carter started preparations for the 1970 race immediately after that defeat. He took to poring over old Georgia budgets, and at the other extreme, stretching his mind on the likes of Reinhold Niebuhr and Dylan Thomas. Carter crisscrossed the state scores of times, delivering 1,800 speeches to small-town civic groups, schools and agriculture associations...
...rebellious position back to a formerly rejected one. Rather, it was the end-product of my study of various radical and dissenting movements in American history, and a rejection on my part of the kind of separatism and apocalypticism which has characterized many of them. The reading of Reinhold Niebuhr's The Irony of American History and his Moral Man and Immoral Society during the era of Kennedy nationalism was a significant ingredient to this assumption of active responsibility...
...Manhattan. Sockman was minister of Manhattan's Christ Church, Methodist, and the author of numerous inspirational books (The Higher Happiness, How to Believe). But his largest audience was on the air waves, where, as he once put it, "I pitched my sermons on a level somewhere between Reinhold Niebuhr and Norman Vincent Peale...
...millions of sensitive Christians are more moral and Christian than the governments under which they live. Governments act on the basis of expedience and are therefore amoral, while the true Christian's view of responsibility is vastly superior in a humanitarian sense to that of his government. Reinhold Niebuhr's phrase, "Moral Man in an Immoral Society," suggests a vital distinction between a Christian and the society in which he lives. To make such a sweeping generalization as Mr. Yellin appears to make without taking the broader view reminds us of Gilbert Chesterton's statement: "All generalizations...