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Scott R. Paeth introduces the life, times, and theological thought of H. Richard and Reinhold Niebuhr—two of the most important American theologians of the twentieth century. Although the Niebuhr brothers shared the same heritage and experienced many of the same formative moments, their thought diverged at key points as their lives and careers developed. Paeth’s exploration of the Niebuhrs’...

rather to God. The Church’s loyalty to God trumps any loyalty to the movements, ideals, or institutions for social change that it might otherwise ally itself with. Only by maintaining that loyalty to God is it possible for the church to engage society on its own terms without succumbing to bondage to society and accommodating itself to society’s demands: “If the church has no other plan of salvation,” he writes, “to offer to men than one of deliverance by force, education, idealism, or a planned
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