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Richard Fox compiles a very informative, but complex reverie in his full moon-scale biography about Americas greatest twentieth-century theologian, Reinhold Niebuhr. Although sometimes over-indulging the take oner with somewhat trivial facts, the material covered provides an in-depth portraying of the life of this religious thinker, semipolitical organizer, preacher, and famed teacher.         Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr was innate(p) in Wright City, Missouri, on June 21, 1892. He was the son of a rector in the evangelistic and Reformed Church, Gustav, who had immigrated to America in 1878 and consequently attended heaven Theological Seminary in Missouri, which was associated with the German Evangelical Synod of northeasterly America. Karls father had a tremendous impact on his life. Daily, Gustav read from the Bible in Hebrew and Greek. His father considered himself an American and a liberal. Reinhold took hold of his fathers liberal values and followed his example to Eden Seminary in 1912.         Niebuhr studied at Eden for a course of counselling and then entered Yale Divinity School, receiving both bachelors and masters degrees within two years. In 1915, the mission board of his denomination sent him to Detroit as minister of religion of religion where he served for 13 years. The congregation numbered 65 on his arriver and grew to nearly 700 when he left. In 1928, Niebuhr became Professor of functional divinity at Union Theological Seminary in impertinently York.

        During the coarse Depression, Niebuhr became a lea ding spokesmen for religious socialism, a po! litical political theory drawn from both clergy and laity who took hard both the adumbrative moral values of the Bible and the patently insoluble contradictions of the capitalistic system. During the early 30s he supported socialist candidates, but became disillusion with socialist politics and, in 1940, voted for Roosevelt, a liberal democrat (Fox 45).         In 1932, Niebuhr wrote Moral Man and scrofulous Society, his first earthshaking writing. In... If you want to get a full essay, order it on our website: OrderCustomPaper.com

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