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H. Richard Niebuhr | |
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| Born | Helmut Richard Niebuhr September 3, 1894 Wright City, Missouri, U.S. |
| Died | July 5, 1962 (aged 67) |
| Spouse |
Florence Mittendorff
(m. 1920) |
| Relatives | Reinhold Niebuhr (brother) |
| Ecclesiastical career | |
| Religion | Christianity (Protestant) |
| Church | Evangelical Synod of North America |
| Ordained | 1916 |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | |
| Thesis | Ernst Troeltsch's Philosophy of Religion (1924) |
| Doctoral advisor | Douglas Clyde Macintosh |
| Influences | |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | |
| Sub-discipline | Ethics |
| School or tradition | Neo-orthodoxy |
| Institutions | |
| Doctoral students | |
| Notable students | Sallie McFague |
| Notable works |
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| Influenced | |
Helmut Richard Niebuhr (/ˈniːbʊər/; September 3, 1894 – July 5, 1962) was an American theologian and Protestant minister who is considered one of the most important Christian ethicists in 20th-century America. He is best known for his 1951 book Christ and Culture and his posthumously published book The Responsible Self. The younger brother of theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, Richard Niebuhr taught for several decades at the Yale Divinity School. Both brothers were, in their day, important figures in the neo-orthodox theological school within American Protestantism. His theology (together with that of his colleague at Yale, Hans Wilhelm Frei) has been one of the main sources of postliberal theology, sometimes called the "Yale school". He influenced such figures as James Gustafson, Stanley Hauerwas, and Gordon Kaufman.
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