‘Thus the sun and the rain is provided, without which no fruit of mind and spirit can ripen.’

—RN’s dedication at the beginning of *Faith and History*. I like it. May we all enjoy the privilege of just such intellectual and spiritual nourishment.

#theology #niebuhr

‘Thus the sun and the rain is provided, without which no fruit of mind and spirit can ripen.’

—RN’s dedication at the beginning of *Faith and History*. I like it. May we all enjoy the privilege of just such intellectual and spiritual nourishment.

#theology #niebuhr

‘Thus the sun and the rain is provided, without which no fruit of mind and spirit can ripen.’

—RN’s dedication at the beginning of *Faith and History*. I like it. May we all enjoy just such intellectual and spiritual nourishment.

#theology #niebuhr

‘The final enigma of history is therefore not how the righteous will gain victory over the unrighteous, but how the evil in every good and the unrighteousness of the righteous is to be overcome.’

#niebuhr #theology

‘The final enigma of history is therefore not how the righteous will gain victory over the unrighteous, but how the evil in every good and the unrighteousness of the righteous is to be overcome.’

#niebuhr #theology

‘[When] philosophy finds itself incapable of overcoming the ultimate ambiguities of existence, it is forced to recognize the realm of mystery as both fulfillment and negation of the realm of meaning and to acknowledge the function of faith as both fulfillment and negation of reason.’

#niebuhr #theology #philosophy #epistemology #faith

‘[When] philosophy finds itself incapable of overcoming the ultimate ambiguities of existence, it is forced to recognize the realm of mystery as both fulfillment and negation of the realm of meaning and to acknowledge the function of faith as both fulfillment and negation of reason.’

#niebuhr #theology #philosophy #epistemology #faith

Been (re)reading lots of Niebuhr (Reinhold, I mean) over the past several months. Only recently discovered this extensive 1991 book of letters, selected and edited by Ursula, from and to RN. I’m sure there’s some affectionate censorship, but the letters are still revealing and interesting.

#niebuhr

Been (re)reading lots of Niebuhr (Reinhold, I mean) over the past several months. Only recently discovered this extensive 1991 book of letters, selected and edited by Ursula, from and to RN. I’m sure there’s some affectionate censorship, but the letters are still revealing and interesting.

#niebuhr

🔥’It is because modern man has no faith which would make it possible for him to escape despair if he looked at the sad and tragic realities of human existence and human nature that he holds on so desperately to the illusion of the goodness of man.’🔥

#niebuhr #theology

‘Man is always most inhuman, not when he is unconsciously driven by natural impulses, but when he imagines his natural impulses and his relative values to be instruments of some absolute good.’
#Niebuhr #theology #ethics

RT @just_ethics@twitter.com

Sehr lesenswert M Siemons in So-@FAZ_NET@twitter.com👇. Weniger als #Habermas ad hominem (@ABaerbock@twitter.com) gehend, hinterfragt er mit US-Theol. R. #Niebuhr aktuellen Umschlag von moral. #Pazifismus in eskalierenden #Bellizismus + mahnt Öffentlichkeit, Herz + Hirn zerreissende Aporie zu halten 1/

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/just_ethics/status/1520668200769179649

#Geschichte der #Entdeckung der #Institutionen des #Gaius / #Codex #Veronensis 1816;
#Savigny hatte #Kenntnis aus #älteren #Texten von der #Schrift in der #Bibliothek von #Verona und #beauftragte #Niebuhr mit der #beiläufigen #Suche

Es hatte sich #vorher einfach #niemand dafür #interessiert.

#Unterscheidung von #bekannt und #erkannt.

Barthold Georg #Niebuhr (1776 - 1831)

#Palimspsest wieder #lesbar #gemacht mit #Chemikalie

#Vorlesung #Römische #Rechtsgeschichte #Avenarius, 5. Sitzung