Reinhold Niebuhr

Moral Man and Immoral Society

Christian ethics arguing moral behavior requires religious transformation

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Reinhold Niebuhr
Reinhold Niebuhr

American theologian and public intellectual who applied Christian realism to politics and ethics. The Nature and Destiny of Man is his major theological work; The Irony of American History is his finest political writing. He influenced Cold War liberalism and was Obama's favorite philosopher.

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