1920's Religion | Leaves From the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic

Diary

By: Reinhold Niebuhr

Date: 1929

Source: Niebuhr, Reinhold. Leaves From the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic. 1929. Reprint, San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1980, 78–79.

About the Author: Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) was an Evangelical Synod minister and theologian. Serving as a pastor for thirteen years in Detroit, he then went on to teach social ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. He was the author of numerous books, including Moral Man and Immoral Society (1932) and the two-volume The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation (1941–1943).

Introduction

Reinhold Niebuhr was born on June 21, 1892, in Wright City, Missouri. Niebuhr came from a devout family. His father, Gustav, was a minister in the Evangelical Synod, a Lutheran-oriented denomination that had spun off the Prussian Church Union. Reinhold also...