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**PBS World Channel: “An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story” **
On PBS World Channel: Sunday December 23, 2017, 9:00pm Eastern.
"An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story examines the career and global impact of renowned American-born theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, who became a voice of conscience to a country reaching the pinnacle of its economic and political power. As the Great Depression gripped America, he rocked the liberal Christian community with “Moral Man and Immoral Society,” which challenged the idea of inherent progress and justice in history. During and after the war, Niebuhr helped establish the infrastructure that gave Christian churches and thinkers a voice in postwar politics, and proved instrumental in the effort to form the World Council of Churches.
Through archival photos, recordings and interviews with his daughter, former students, The New York Times writer David Brooks and civil rights icon Andrew Young, the documentary also explores Niebuhr’s influence and impact on numerous leaders, including Martin Luther King, Jr., President Barack Obama, and former President Jimmy Carter. With revealing insights from academic experts who discuss his life and influence, the stories capture Niebuhr’s seminal role in American life."
http://worldchannel.org/programs/episode/american-conscience-reinhold-niebuhr/
I don’t care for the guest experts that appear in the program, but it looks like the only program about Niebuhr that we will get from the Media.
“Niebuhr’s enormous influence on political thought, both inside and outside the church, caused Hans J. Morgenthau, an eminent political scientist, to say that Niebuhr was “the greatest living political philosopher of America.” He was probably the most-popular preacher in university chapels from the early 1920s to the early 1950s. Many contemporary Christians trace their conviction that Christianity makes sense to the influence of his preaching. He was not a specialized scholar in any field, including theology, but his broad learning and his original and incisive thought made him the subject of many theses and other scholarly writings, and he exercised a seminal influence on scholarship and thought in a variety of fields.”
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Reinhold-Niebuhr
On PBS World Channel: Sunday December 23, 2017, 9:00pm Eastern.
"An American Conscience: The Reinhold Niebuhr Story examines the career and global impact of renowned American-born theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, who became a voice of conscience to a country reaching the pinnacle of its economic and political power. As the Great Depression gripped America, he rocked the liberal Christian community with “Moral Man and Immoral Society,” which challenged the idea of inherent progress and justice in history. During and after the war, Niebuhr helped establish the infrastructure that gave Christian churches and thinkers a voice in postwar politics, and proved instrumental in the effort to form the World Council of Churches.
Through archival photos, recordings and interviews with his daughter, former students, The New York Times writer David Brooks and civil rights icon Andrew Young, the documentary also explores Niebuhr’s influence and impact on numerous leaders, including Martin Luther King, Jr., President Barack Obama, and former President Jimmy Carter. With revealing insights from academic experts who discuss his life and influence, the stories capture Niebuhr’s seminal role in American life."
http://worldchannel.org/programs/episode/american-conscience-reinhold-niebuhr/
I don’t care for the guest experts that appear in the program, but it looks like the only program about Niebuhr that we will get from the Media.
“Niebuhr’s enormous influence on political thought, both inside and outside the church, caused Hans J. Morgenthau, an eminent political scientist, to say that Niebuhr was “the greatest living political philosopher of America.” He was probably the most-popular preacher in university chapels from the early 1920s to the early 1950s. Many contemporary Christians trace their conviction that Christianity makes sense to the influence of his preaching. He was not a specialized scholar in any field, including theology, but his broad learning and his original and incisive thought made him the subject of many theses and other scholarly writings, and he exercised a seminal influence on scholarship and thought in a variety of fields.”
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Reinhold-Niebuhr