Divinity School: An American Conscience: the Reinhold Niebuhr Story

Date: 

Thursday, February 2, 2017, 6:00pm

Location: 

Braun Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Ave. Cambridge, MA

Divinity School Feb 2

 

Featuring Roundtable Participants

Harvard’s CORNEL WEST

Filmmaker MARTIN DOBLMEIER

Project Head ANDREW FINSTUEN

Moderator HEALAN GASTON

 Join us for a screening and discussion of a riveting new film about Reinhold Niebuhr set to air on PBS in April of 2017. This documentary offers a stunning portrait of Niebuhr's many contributions to Christian ethics and political thought, together with new insights concerning Niebuhr’s influence on Martin Luther King, Jr. The film includes interviews with former President Jimmy Carter, civil rights leader Andrew Young, Cornel West, David Brooks, Elisabeth Sifton, Susannah Heschel, Gary Dorrien, Robin Lovin, Stanley Hauerwas, Andrew Bacevich, Mark Massa, Andrew Finstuen, Healan Gaston, and many others.

 This event is sponsored by Harvard Divinity School, the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, the Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History, the Harvard Center for American Political Studies, the Department of African & African AmericanStudies, the History Department, and the Committee on the Study of Religion with support of the Rabbi Joseph F. Shubow Memorial Fund.

 Please arrive early to secure a seat!

 

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