Moral Man and Immoral Society
Ranked #72 in Ethics
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) was one of America's foremost twentieth-century religious thinkers and social critics. As pastor of Bethel Evangelical Church in Detroit, he became deeply interested in social problems. He was Professor of Applied Christianity at Union Theological Seminary, remaining there until his retirement. Ultimately, he abandoned his liberal Protestant hopes for the church's moral rule of society and became a Socialist activist.
Moral Man and Immoral Society is Niebuhr's eloquent argument for the church's involvement in social reforms as well as a platform for his... more
Moral Man and Immoral Society is Niebuhr's eloquent argument for the church's involvement in social reforms as well as a platform for his... more
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Barack Obama Former USA PresidentI love him. He’s one of my favorite philosophers. (Source)
Richard Harries He is one of the few theologians who has really grappled with the issue of power. A lot of his book is about how you control power in a brutal world. (Source)
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