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Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes
Had the serenity to accept the things you cannot change; the courage to change the things you can and the wisdom to know the difference.
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Birth: | 21st June, 1892 |
Death: | 1st June, 1971 |
Nationality: | American |
Profession: | Editor, Professor, Theologian |
Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr was an American theologian, public intellectual, commentator on politics and public affairs, and professor at Union Theological Seminary for more than 30 years. Starting as a leftist minister in the 1920s indebted to theological liberalism, he shifted to Neo-Orthodox theology in the 1930s, explaining how the sin of pride created evil in the world, and created the theo-philosophical perspective known as Christian realism.
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