I’m not sure when I first encountered the Serenity Prayer, or when it first occurred to me to ask who wrote it. For much of ...

Niebuhr upbraided those who imagined that a new global order, bowing to an international political authority, was in the making. In modern liberalism, Niebuhr saw a wasting moral evasion.

Reinhold Niebuhr, the theologian whose work Andrew Finstuen invokes in this issue, had an interesting relationship with the Christian Century.He started writing for the magazine in 1922 while he was a ...

In early August 1969, an elderly Reinhold Niebuhr found himself in one last intellectual dogfight. In an article for Christianity and Crisis, "The King's Chapel and the King's Court," he blasted ...

That Niebuhr still gets mentioned by public leaders is not surprising. He was immensely influential in public life himself, engaging actively in both state (New York) and national politics.

Niebuhr’s concept of power has implications for every branch of theology. Its crucial difference with historic Christianity originates in methodology. Historic Christianity begins not with the ...

Niebuhr was prescient in recognizing that during the Cold War it would be the vacillations and inconsistencies that democracy produced that kept the U.S. away from the dangerous blunders of the ...

It is an enduring legacy, that of Reinhold Niebuhr, America`s pragmatist theologian, liberal critic of the liberal dream. Born 100 years ago next month, he was the best-known public theologian in ...

In his newest book, Faith and History (Scribner: $3.50), Professor Niebuhr struggles with his own tortuous prose to present his pertinent views on what kind of progress, if any, man can hope for ...