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===World War I===

===World War I===

As America entered the World War in 1917, Niebuhr had just become pastor of a small German-speaking congregation in Detroit. All [[Germania]] and German culture in America was under attack, and he repeatedly stressed the need to be loyal to America. Theologically, however, he went beyond the issue of national loyalty as he endeavored to fashion a realistic ethical perspective of patriotism and pacifism. He endeavored to work out a realistic approach to the moral danger posed by aggressive powers which many idealists and pacifists failed to recognize. During the war he also served his denomination as Executive Secretary of the War Welfare Commission while maintaining his pastorate in Detroit. A pacifist at heart, he saw compromise as a necessity and was willing to support war in order to find peace - compromising for the sake of righteousness.<ref> William G. Chrystal, "Reinhold Niebuhr and the First World War." ''Journal of Presbyterian History'' 1977 55(3): 285-298. 0022-3883 </ref>  

As America entered the World War in 1917, Niebuhr had just become pastor of a small German-speaking congregation in Detroit (it stopped using German in 1919). All [[Germania]] and German culture in America was under attack, and he repeatedly stressed the need to be loyal to America. Theologically, however, he went beyond the issue of national loyalty as he endeavored to fashion a realistic ethical perspective of patriotism and pacifism. He endeavored to work out a realistic approach to the moral danger posed by aggressive powers which many idealists and pacifists failed to recognize. During the war he also served his denomination as Executive Secretary of the War Welfare Commission while maintaining his pastorate in Detroit. A pacifist at heart, he saw compromise as a necessity and was willing to support war in order to find peace - compromising for the sake of righteousness.<ref> William G. Chrystal, "Reinhold Niebuhr and the First World War." ''Journal of Presbyterian History'' 1977 55(3): 285-298. 0022-3883 </ref>  

After seminary he preached the [[Social Gospel]], then started attacking what he imagined was the brutalization and insecurity of Ford workers<ref> See Reinhold Niebuhr, "Detroit" (radio interview [http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/niebuhr-rediscovered/b8.shtml online]).</ref>  

After seminary he preached the [[Social Gospel]], then started attacking what he imagined was the brutalization and insecurity of Ford workers<ref> See Reinhold Niebuhr, "Detroit" (radio interview [http://speakingoffaith.publicradio.org/programs/niebuhr-rediscovered/b8.shtml online]).</ref>