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... > social science subjects > politics and international relations > global studies > global governance and world order > global religion > key people in global religion > Reinhold Niebuhr
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Reinhold Niebuhr  

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  • Reinhold Niebuhr was the most prominent Christian intellectual in the United States during the middle half of the 20th century. Born on June 21, 1892, in Wright City, Missouri, to a theologically inclined family of German immigrants, he was raised in Lincoln, Illinois, and among his siblings were the Yale ethicist H. Richard Niebuhr and Hulda Niebuhr, Professor of Christian Education at McCormick Theological Seminary. [Source: Encyclopedia of Global Religion; Niebuhr, Reinhold (1892–1971)]

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