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Quotes from Radical Monotheism and Western Culture — H. Richard Niebuhr

1894–1962 United States

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Faith and God belong together somewhat as sense experience and physical reality do.

Radical Monotheism and Western Culture (1960)

Faith is at least as much an unavoidable counterpart of the presence of God as sense experience is an unavoidable counterpart of the presence of natural entities.

Radical Monotheism and Western Culture (1960)

The chief rival to monotheism, I shall contend, is henotheism or that social faith which makes a finite society, whether cultural or religious, the object of trust as well as of loyalty and which tends to subvert even officially monotheistic institutions, such as the churches.

Radical Monotheism and Western Culture (1960)

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