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Richard Fox compiles a very informative, but complex visual modality in his bounteous-scale biography about Americas greatest twentieth-century theologian, Reinhold Niebuhr. Although sometimes over-indulging the allegeer with somewhat trivial facts, the material covered provides an in-depth moving picture of the life of this religious thinker, governmental 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 attend heaven Theological Seminary in Missouri, which was associated with the German Evangelical Synod of brotherhood 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 f ollowed his example to Eden Seminary in 1912.         Niebuhr studied at Eden for a course of educational activity 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 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 hard-nosed divinity at Union Theological Seminary in newfound York.

        During the coarse Depression, Niebuhr became a leadi ng spokesmen for religious socialism, a poli! tical political theory drawn from both clergy and laity who took disadvantageously both the adumbrative moral values of the Bible and the plainly insoluble contradictions of the capitalistic system. During the early 30s he supported state-controlled 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 fast 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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