'''Reinhold Niebuhr''' (1892—1971) was the leading [[Neo-Orthodox]] theologian in the United States and the premier American public theologian of the [[Cold War]] era from 1945 to his death. Niebuhr was the archetypal American intellectual of the Cold War era. Starting as a leftist minister in the 1920s, he explored how the sin of pride created evil in the world. He attacked utopianianism and useless for dealing with reality, writing in ''The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness'' (1944):
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'''Reinhold Niebuhr''' (1892—1971) was the leading [[Neo-Orthodox]] theologian in the United States and the premier American public theologian of the [[Cold War]] era from 1945 to his death. Niebuhr was the archetypal American intellectual of the Cold War era. Starting as a leftist minister in the 1920s, he explored how the sin of pride created evil in the world. He attacked utopianianism as useless for dealing with reality, writing in ''The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness'' (1944):
:"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."
:"Man's capacity for justice makes democracy possible; but man's inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary."