“Transvaluation of values,” a term derived from Nietzsche (who derided Christianity’s embrace of the weak), is the heart of Niebuhr’s perspective on the cross.”
― The Cross and the Lynching Tree
― The Cross and the Lynching Tree
“If human power in history—among races, nations, and other collectives as well as individuals—is self-interested power, then “the revelation of divine goodness in history” must be weak and not strong.”
― The Cross and the Lynching Tree
― The Cross and the Lynching Tree
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