“When Reinhold Niebuhr died three weeks before his 79th birthday in 1971, obituaries identified him as the most influential American theologian of this century,” wrote Harvey Cox, professor of ...
In 2008 I made the front page of The New York Times by asserting that the greatest American theologian of the 20th century, who was also perhaps the greatest American political philosopher of the 20th ...
Reinhold Niebuhr’s Moral Man and Immoral Society was on the reading list of my Intro­duction to Ethics course in college. Its premise is that individuals are capable of moral behavior, but group ...