Niebuhr Theology Humanity Research And Reflection

Reinhold Niebuhr is the most prominent theologians in American,he advocated Christian realism is the dominant trend of the American Christian ethics,revitalizing Christian tradition doctrine of the people concerned.Niebuhr for Christian theology,the analysis of the human nature in the reality make we found the relative solution for the ethical and political theory,his anthropology is the biggest contribution of anthropology in the Christian that show us the human ancient beliefs's enlightenment function and the influence for the ethics.This paper is divided into five chapters:The first chapter is Literature review and introduction.literature review mainly introduced the research situation for the Niebuhr's theology human ethics.Academia area currently research mainly focus on the problem of morality and faith,pistemology,god image,Christian liberty,sin and love.Niebuhr theology of human problems,especially the study to the theology of humanity in the world today,and analysis for the political situation,Niebuhr's theology humanity ideas contains ethical thoughts,not only based on the theory but also realtive the practice. The introduction of the main topic of the article introduced the purpose,significance,research scope and content.from the Christian human nature, Niebuhr theology interpretated modern political ethics,fully embodies the human research of traditional values and the modem significance of the Christian.The second chapter introducted the ideas of prior Niebuhr,the mainly humanity ideas in western and reflective criticism, Niebuhr use classification explains method, takes from "two greece and the historical origin of cultural", explains two types about idealism and naturalism,to understand the human nature of western classical and the background of western culture,to research the difference between the classical humanity and Christian humanity.Through the modification method or mix two different humanity views,medieval in Christian thought system, and after a comprehensive experience of mutual polyester later, make modern mixed filter, the Christian humanity ever-improving, have a solid theoretical foundation for studying Niebuhr theory of human nature.The third chapter basically introduced Niebuhr theology view,through introduced the part of human concept of Niebuhr theology,using the detailed introduction and critical reflection method,for the general problem in the second chapter introduced of Christian humanity in the human personlity,such as the problem of the consciousness loss,and the problem of criticism and reflection form the consciousness of sin flee which was the result of the human's overly optimistic attitude, this paper discusses the criticism and reflection from the ancient philosophers and theologians on human nature, and though the analysis of current situation,show the superior of Niebuhr theology.Chapter 4, use Niebuhr humanity view to analyzed human's psychology in the political reality,and analyzed human pride,organization pride and the problem of evil humanity circulation.to show the political and social problems,such as the pseudo patriotism,the essence of hegemony and the relativism of the moral and political,etc.Chapter 5, mainly for Niebuhr theology,the advantages and disadvantages of humanity theory, reflection and criticism. Through the interpretation of the practical ethics loss, leads the real value of the riligious ethical.Niebuhr theology theory of human nature make Christian ethical got again raised,inject new source for religious ethics,find new opportunities for the combination of religious ethics ans secular ethics,and provides the theoretical origin of the indispensable for the global ethics development.