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...H. K. Russell University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers. No. 29, James T. Farrell . By Branch Edgar M. . Pp. 48 . No. 30 Theodore Roethke . By Mills Ralph J. Jr. Pp. 47 . No. 31 , Reinhold Niebuhr . By Scott Nathan A. Jr . Pp. 48 . No. 32...

... Interpretations of the neo-orthodox awakening have focused on developments within the seminaries. Understandably so: the intellec­ tual leadership provided by the brothers Niebuhr, Paul Tillich, and others was, in the words of a contemporary, simply dazzling. His­ torians have echoed this admiration...

... Reagan now finds so enervating than the idea of irony, and no individual was so closely associated with the idea as Reinhold Niebuhr, who wrote The Irony ofAmerican History in 1952. Niebuhr himself exem­ plified the intellectual journey of Americans from the optimistic Social Gospel pacifistic...

... perspective apart from that of other liberal realists like Reinhold Niebuhr, George Kennan, and Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. As such, Woodward provides yet another important example of a southern variation on an Ameri­ can theme. Liberal realism of the northern variety is the name given to a school of social...

... the Homeric poems. Niebuhr's history of Rome published in 1817 attacked the sources of early Roman history. He treated the generally accepted accounts of the regal period and the early republic as fables which, however, contained a residuum of truth. His arguments were unanswerable, but lacked conclusive...

... Paul, the distinguished student of Emerson, Thoreau, and American writers; Van Wyck Brooks, by William Wasserstrom, who has writ­ ten the best book to date on Brooks; Kenneth Burke, by Merle E. Brown, a critic who like all but Wagner is a literary man; and Reinhold Niebuhr, by Nathan A. Scott, Jr...

..., and publishers to reprint them. DUKE UNIVERSITY LIONEL STEVENSON University of Minnesota Pamphlets on American Writers. No. 29, James T. Farrell. By Edgar M. Branch. Pp. 48. No. 30, Theodore Roethke. By Ralph J. Mills, Jr. Pp. 47. No. 31, Reinhold Niebuhr. By Nathan A. Scott, Jr. Pp. 48. No. 32, Little Magazines...

.... There are no references to the leading spokesmen for the contemporary Catholic renascence, while Protestant neo-orthodox leaders receive quite scant attention: Reinhold Niebuhr is brushed off in two vague references, Brunner receives no attention and neither do John Baillie and Richard Niebuhr, and Karl Barth...

... religious thinking of our time. There are no references to the leading spokesmen for the contemporary Catholic renascence, while Protestant neo-orthodox leaders receive quite scant attention: Reinhold Niebuhr is brushed off in two vague references, Brunner receives no attention and neither do John Baillie...

... premised its liberalism on Reinhold Niebuhr s mighty dictum: Man s capacity for justice makes democracy possible, but man s inclination to injustice makes democ­ racy necessary. Even before I started reading Niebuhr, I regarded the recognition of human limitations as providing the firmest intellectual...

..., but full of brilliant flashes and refer­ ences, often illuminating, to all sorts of writers, from Cervantes to Joyce, from Niebuhr to Berdyaev, from Ronsard to Whitman. It is, by the way, with Walt Whitman that Powys likes to classify Rabelais because both were primarily affirmative in their attitude...

... Union, which revealed the excesses of a messianic ideology that sacrificed individuals to its vision of a fu­ ture utopia; and third, a deepening knowledge of man, which reflected Reinhold Niebuhr s emphasis on sinfulness as a basic quality of human nature. To preserve freedom amidst the terrors...

... conservatism has also taken a highly intellectual and even a socially activist form, notably in the neo-orthodox movement of the Barthians both here and abroad. This elitist neo-orthodox group, as represented in the United States by Reinhold Niebuhr, has managed to retain the social gospel of progressive...

... to the thoughts on American culture contained in Reinhold Niebuhr s The Irony of American History. Writing back in the 1950s, Niebuhr declared that, Our age is involved in irony because so many dreams of our nation have been so cruelly refuted by history. 1 Later, with the Vietnam War, the American people were...

..., and the abandonment of a sense of the absolute, or of potential certainty in things. With the logic of Descartes and the philosophy of Condorcet, Barthold Niebuhr had proclaimed in the second decade of the nineteenth century: At the end of the last century our country saw once more the dawn of a new age. Everywhere...

... of narrative. Richard Reinitz, in Niebuhrian irony and historical interpreta­ tion, begins with Reinhold Niebuhr s Irony of American History and then applies the concept to the writing of Louis Hartz, Daniel Boorstin, W. A. Williams, and Gabriel Kolko. The essay has style and intellectual clout. The final...

... Reinitz, in Niebuhrian irony and historical interpreta­ tion, begins with Reinhold Niebuhr s Irony of American History and then applies the concept to the writing of Louis Hartz, Daniel Boorstin, W. A. Williams, and Gabriel Kolko. The essay has style and intellectual clout. The final chapter...

... the methods of the Greek philologists to the minute assessment of modern historical sources. But, born in 1795, Ranke was a member of a nationalist, Romantic genera­ tion and was broader and mellower than his disciples. Niebuhr, who published a History of Rome in the early nineteenth century, remarked...

... the methods of the Greek philologists to the minute assessment of modern historical sources. But, born in 1795, Ranke was a member of a nationalist, Romantic genera­ tion and was broader and mellower than his disciples. Niebuhr, who published a History of Rome in the early nineteenth century, remarked...

... their energies for decades (frontier missions, the Indian problem, the slave and the freedman), the churches were also hesitant to abandon, or even alter, time-honored beliefs Mr. White teaches American urban history at the State University of New York at Buffalo. 1 H. Richard Niebuhr, The Kingdom of God...