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Christendom has often achieved apparent success by ignoring the precepts of its founder.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
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H. Richard Niebuhr

H. Richard Niebuhr

Born: September 3, 1894
Died: July 5, 1962 (aged 67)
Bio: Helmut Richard Niebuhr is considered one of the most important Christian theological ethicists in 20th century America, most known for his 1951 book Christ and Culture and his posthumously published book The Responsible Self.
Known for:
  1. Christ and Culture (1951)
  2. The kingdom of God in America (1937)
  3. The Social Sources Of Denominationalism (1929)

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