Word: reinhold
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...because they make a human being responsible to others. The rare individual who feels neither guilt nor anxiety is a monster?a psychopath with no conscience. What psychologists call Urangst, or original anxiety, the anxiety that is inevitably part of any human being, is well described by Theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, who believes that it springs from man's dual character: on the one hand, man is involved in the contingencies of nature, like the animals; on the other, he has freedom and understanding of his position. "In short, man, being both bound and free, both limited and limitless, is anxious...
...worshiping the false god of self, modern man's craven idol. The ammunition that Author Fitch, 59. brings to the neo-orthodox,-neo-conservative battle camp is shiny with polemical wit and brilliance, but his essential targets have long since been peppered by profounder critics, among them Reinhold Niebuhr (The Nattire and Destiny of Man), Bernard Iddings Bell (Crowd Culture), José Ortega y Gasset (Revolt of the Masses'). He seems temperamentally torn between being a Christian critic and playing the Spenglerian doomsayer in tones that resemble that carbuncular Shakespearean scold, Thersites ("Lechery, lechery! Still wars and lechery...
Protestant Theologian REINHOLD NIEBUHR in the NEW LEADER...
Speaking before an audience of 400 at the Loeb Drama Center, Nadine Gordimer claimed that "South Africa lacks the culture from which literature draws its real substance." She quoted Reinhold Niebuhr's criteria for a national super-entity, noting that her country has no common language, philosophy, or historical experience, no ethnic kinship, and common...
Neither Father Murray's nor Reinhold Niebuhr's way of distinguishing between public and private morality really meets the dilemma of the Christian, who has a responsibility for moral action even in the service of the state, and presumably might find in the Sermon on the Mount a greater authority than Father Murray's very flexible natural law. I do not write as one who can resolve the dilemma, but as one persuaded that neither Niebuhr nor Murray has explained it away...