Reinhold Niebuhr

Rosie Perera said:

Bump!

What's the deal with not having ANY Reinhold Niebuhr? And nobody having suggested any of his books yet on SuggestBooks?

"Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) was an inner-city pastor, ethics professor, and author of the famous Serenity Prayer. Time magazine's 25th anniversary issue in March 1948 featured Niebuhr on its cover, and Time later eulogized him as 'the greatest Protestant theologian in America since Jonathan Edwards.' Cited as an influence by public figures ranging from Billy Graham to Barack Obama, Niebuhr was described by historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr. as 'the most influential American theologian of the twentieth century.'"

(from the book description of An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr)

Please get on this, Faithlife!

Some of his works (in roughly order of importance).

• The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation (2 volumes) - listed in Modern Library's 100 Best Nonfiction
• Discerning the Signs of the Times - Sermons for Today and Tomorrow
• An Interpretation of Christian Ethics (Library of Theological Ethics)
• Faith and History - A Comparison of Christian and Modern Views of History
• Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics
• The Irony of American History
• Christian Realism and Political Problems
• The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness: A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of Its Traditional Defense
• Love and Justice: Selections from the Shorter Writings of Reinhold Niebuhr (Library of Theological Ethics)
• Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic
• Pious and Secular America
• Christianity and Power Politics
• Essays In Applied Christianity
• Beyond Tragedy: Essays on the Christian Interpretation of Tragedy
• The World Crisis and American Responsibility: Nine Essays

And about him:

• Reinhold Niebuhr: Theologian of Public Life (Making of Modern Theology) (Fortress Press, 1991)

Thanks for the requests Rosie, sorry for the lack of response, I will look into these.