REL 1350 Chapter Notes - Chapter 205-207: Merriam-Webster, Reinhold Niebuhr, The Ultimate Sin
8 Apr 2016
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Concomitant - accompanying especially in a subordinate or incidental way. Niebuhr lived from 1892 to 1971 and was an american theologian and ethicist who taught at the union theological seminary. He focused on social issues and the dialectic of the ethics of love and justice. He affirmed but redefined original sin and taught on the sin of self-pride. His most influential work is the natural and destiny of man. Since the self judges itself by its own standards, that person judges others by its own standards and find them evil because they do not meet the standards. The problem is when one mistakes their own standards for those of god. This moral pride is the vehicle of sin. The ultimate sin is the religious sin of making the self- deification implied in moral pride explicitly. Religion is a final battleground between god and man"s self esteem.
