Human existence is obviously distinguished from animal life by its qualified participation in creation. Within limits it breaks the forms of nature and creates new configurations of vitality. Its transcendence over natural process offers it the opportunity of interfering with the established forms and unities of vitality as nature knows them.


The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation (1941)

Reinhold Niebuhr Quotes

Human existence is obviously distinguished from animal life by its qualified participation in creation. Within limits it breaks the forms of nature...

Human existence is obviously distinguished from animal life by its qualified participation in creation. Within limits it breaks the forms of nature...

Human existence is obviously distinguished from animal life by its qualified participation in creation. Within limits it breaks the forms of nature...

Human existence is obviously distinguished from animal life by its qualified participation in creation. Within limits it breaks the forms of nature...