Niebuhrian

English Etymology From en Niebuhr -ian. Adjective Of or relating to Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971), American theologian, ethicist, and political commentator. en Michiko Kakutani Obama, the Best-Selling Author, on Reading, Writing and Radical Empathy The New York Times 2020-12-08 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/08/books/barack-obama-promised-land-reading-writing.html 0362-4331 From his studies of these thinkers and activists, Mr. Obama took what he called the “Niebuhrian” lesson that we can have “a cleareyed view of the world and the realities of cruelty and sin and greed and violence, and yet, still maintain a sense of hope and possibility, as an act of will and leap of faith.” en eponyms