Reinhold Niebuhr: A Biography, Richard Wightman Fox's 1985 study from Pantheon, is a scholarly biography of the influential American theologian grounded in his extensive personal papers and correspondence, treating his theological development alongside his public political engagement. Its strength is that archival grounding. Its limit is that, like any single biography, it reflects one historian's interpretive choices; readers wanting Niebuhr's theology in his own words should read his major works directly alongside this account of his life.
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Richard Wightman Fox's Reinhold Niebuhr: A Biography, published by Pantheon in 1985, the top tier reflecting a scholarly biography of the influential American theologian grounded in his extensive personal papers and correspondence, treating his theological development alongside his public political engagement. Its limit is that, like any single biography, it reflects one historian's interpretive choices; readers wanting Niebuhr's theology in his own words should read his major works directly alongside it. NotesBiography of theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, Pantheon, 1985.
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AuthorRichard Wightman Fox
PublisherPantheon
Publication Year1985
Source Typebiography
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