#niebuhr

[sostumbling]

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, grant me the courage to change the things I can change, grant me the wisdom to distinguish them.

Serenity Prayer by Reinhold Niebuhr, 15th March, Staying strong by Demi Lovato

[bethetiesthatbind]

Internal/External History and God

“It remains true that Christian faith cannot escape from partnership with history, however many other partners it may choose. With this it has been mated and to this its loyalty belongs; the union is as indestructible as that of reason and sense experience in the natural sciences. But though this is true the question remains, how can it be true? How can revelation mean both history and God?” (The Meaning of Revelation, 59)

The multiplicity of God cannot be defined by our contexts alone, but the search for the “definition” is intrinsically tied in the events we witness and in which we participate to better understand the divine. This quest for God comes through partnership with understanding our histories, and must be tempered with additional partnerships (lenses) of understanding the histories and contexts of others, as well as accepting that the face of God is not only the past nor a projection into the future, but also the God of the present, “the here and now.” This is yes-and theology, accepting multiple realities at once and embracing paradox.

[cecilia37]

“A God without wrath brought men without sin into a Kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a Cross.”

― H. Richard Niebuhr, The Kingdom of God in America.

[goldleafer]

In the summer of 1943, when Adolf Hitler's armies marched unchecked across Europe, a pastor in a remote New England village decided to write

I wonder how much the rest of his presidency was influenced by my mans?

[tshoxenreider]

Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith. Nothing we do, however virtuous, can be accomplished alone; therefore we are saved by love.

Reinhold Niebuhr

[equinociodeprimavera]

A capacidade humana para a justiça faz a democracia possível; porém, a inclinação humana para a injustiça faz a democracia necessária.

Niebuhr, Reinhold. The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness.

[jeanjacquediva]

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[bisonbooks]

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