In the history of thought, Reinhold Niebuhr is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Reinhold Niebuhr as American Protestant theologian (1892–1971).
Reinhold Niebuhr was born at Wright City in 1892. His recorded nationality is United States. He studied at Yale Divinity School and Eden Theological Seminary.
Around the turn of the twentieth century philosophy split into traditions that largely stopped reading one another.
His academic posts were held at Union Theological Seminary.
The recorded fields of work are theology.
The discipline keeps its dead in print, because the arguments are still open.
Recognition followed: Presidential Medal of Freedom (1964).
That the work was done from United States matters: philosophical traditions, institutions and the language of publication have never been evenly distributed.
Reinhold Niebuhr died in 1971, aged 79. The arguments remain in print, which is the form in which philosophy survives.
Achievements
- Presidential Medal of Freedom — 1964
- Held posts at Union Theological Seminary
- Fields: theology
