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Reinhold Niebuhr · 1941
A two-volume theological work examining human nature, sin, and destiny from a Christian perspective, originally delivered as the Gifford Lectures (1938–1940). Niebuhr argues for biblical realism about human sinfulness while maintaining eschatological hope amid modern secular forces.
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What this book knows
Human beings are finite creatures who nonetheless grasp infinity, and that contradiction — not ignorance — is the root of sin, history, and hope.
self-and-identity
The questioner must in some sense be able to stand outside of, and to transcend the life which is thus judged and estimated.
NDM-RC-007Man's sex life has the quality of uneasiness — both a vehicle of primal self-deification and an uneasy conscience seeking to escape self.
NDM-RC-356faith-and-doubt
It is impossible without the presuppositions of the Christian faith to find the source of sin within man himself.
NDM-RC-019The alternate moods of despair and false hope are overcome and the individual is actually freed to live a life beyond despair.
NDM-RC-324Love is both the fulfillment and the negation of all achievements of justice in history.
NDM-RC-480mortality
The fear of death springs from the capacity not only to anticipate death but to imagine and to be anxious about some dimension of reality on the other side.
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