“Faith is at least as much an unavoidable counterpart of the presence of God as sense experience is an unavoidable counterpart of the presence of natural entities.”

— H. Richard Niebuhr

Source: Radical Monotheism and Western Culture (1960), p. 12

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American theologian 1894–1962

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