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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Niebuhr"”.
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John Dewey and Reinhold Niebuhr: An Uncommon Faith
… questions: One, what was the nature of Dewey and Niebuhr's conflict? Two, how did their assessment of liberalism differ? Three, what kind of synthesis is possible between their conflicting views of the value of ""religion"" and the ""religious"" in modernity?"
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Reinhold Niebuhr and an Ethic of Humility in Deliberative Politics
… to which the political psychology of Reinhold Niebuhr contributes to a more capacious theory of deliberative politics and to what degree such a theory may permit individuals to express themselves with more workable forms of democratic practice. Considerations of Reinhold Niebuhr's understanding …
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From a Christian Socialist to a Christian Realist: Reinhold Niebuhr and the Soviet Union, 1930-1945
Niebuhr's engagement with the Soviet Union from 1930 to 1945 played a decisive role in the formation of Christian realism. First, Niebuhr's encounter with the communist religion (as he called communism) not only resulted in his rejection of the liberalistic interpretation of religion but also …
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„A Critical Student of Augustine” – Reinhold Niebuhr’s Interpretation of Augustine
… sciences have been eager to research Reinhold Niebuhr’s ideas. Most current works on Niebuhr deal with either what Niebuhr thought or its contemporary consequences. This has distracted the attention from the “sources” of Niebuhr, namely, what kind of theoretical influences affected him while …
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History of the theological method of Reinhold Niebuhr : a study of the relationship between past and contemporary events in Niebuhr's theological method
Reinhold Niebuhr is widely acknowledged, by religious and secular opinion alike, as the most influential Christian social ethicist of the twentieth century. For over fifty years he grappled with the issues which confronted his native America at a time when that nation was undergoing the most …
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American Protestants and U.S. Foreign Policy toward the Soviet Union during the Eisenhower Administration: Billy Graham, Reinhold Niebuhr, and G. Bromley Oxnam
… policy objectives? Billy Graham, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Garfield Bromley Oxnam represent the three most prominent representatives of Protestant Christianity’s three major strands. These three acknowledged opinion makers that serve as the focus of this dissertation were not uniform in their …
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Irony, innocence, and myth: Douglas C. Macintosh's untraditional orthodoxy
… by his students H. Richard and Reinhold Niebuhr. This Yale strand of neo-orthodoxy is relevant to the "new historicism" as described by William Dean. The author explores the relevance of Macintosh's work to the developing new historicism including neopragmatism in philosophy, radical …
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From sect to cult to sect: the Christian Catholic Church in Zion
… change from sect to denomination suggested by Niebuhr following Troeltsch;Recent research on cults and sects follows Stark and Bainbridge's definitions. Both cult and sect are deviant religious movements. The sect revitalizes an established religion and the cult begins a new religion. The Stark …
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"STILL DREAMING OF PARADISE": RODGERS AND HAMMERSTEIN ' S OKLAHOMA!, SOUTH PACIFIC , AND POSTWAR AMERICA
… on race and ethnicity, the theology of Reinhold Niebuhr, and foreign policy publications are used to demonstrate Oklahoma!'s and South Pacific's connections to contemporary discourses and to provide historical and cultural contexts for understanding the musicals. Finally, Chapter 7 explores the …
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Metamorphosis of a dream: the history of Appalachian Bible College (1950-1983)
… (as these terms are defined by H. Richard Niebuhr, in <u>Christ and Culture</u>).
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Comenian Elements in Progressive Education
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Leakage Characterisation in Bulk Pipes using Pressure Tests
The supply of water is becoming increasingly strained as the demand for this essential and limited resource continues to increase. A significant amount of this resource is, however, lost through leakage. Not only does this result in a waste of a precious resource, but it also leads to a direct loss …
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American intellectuals and the idea of an 'Atlantic Community' c.1890-1949
… Walter Lippmann, Francis P. Miller, Reinhold Niebuhr and Clarence Streit. Although each strand had its specific focus and audience, all three of them shared the same underlying assumption: in order to tackle the issue of world order in a way consistent with the preservation of American …
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Ironic American Exceptionalism and the Myth of the Open Self
… we could call "ironic." I am reading Reinhold Niebuhr's The Irony of American History alongside Eric Voegelin's and Woodrow Wilson's philosophical and political treatment of freedom, expressed through the ideal of American personhood. American entertainment continues to spread globally, and the …
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Presence and Voice: Understanding the Tensions over the American Church's Relationship to Its Culture through the Writings of Origen, Chrysostom and Augustine
… the discussion first articulated by H. Richard Niebuhr's 1951 work, Christ and Culture, by showing that the way one understands the rhetoric of Christianization in the first five centuries as crystallized in the writings of Origen, Chrysostom and Augustine will reveal not only one's position …
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Applying a comprehensive-internal model for the evaluation of social-scientific research to the identity crisis stage of Erik Erikson's developmental theory
… (VitEx) perspectives found in Richard Niebuhr's Christ and Culture . Both Christian counselors and Christian educators frequently advocate integrating psychology with theology for discipleship in the church via a VitEx framework. Chapter 3 begins the process of employing the three …