Film Screening and Roundtable - An American Conscience: THE REINHOLD NIEBUHR STORY

Date: 

Thursday, February 2, 2017, 6:00pm to 8:30pm

Location: 

Harvard Divinity School, Braun Room, Andover Hall, 45 Francis Avenue

Roundtable Participants: Harvard’s CORNEL WEST, Filmmaker MARTIN DOBLMEIER, Project Head ANDREW FINSTUEN & Moderator HEALAN GASTON

WATCH TRAILER HERE: https://vimeo.com/192202247

Join us for a screening and discussion of a riveting new film about Reinhold Niebuhr set to air on PBS in April of 2017. This documentary offers a stunning portrait of Niebuhr's many contributions to Christian ethics and political thought, together with new insights concerning Niebuhr’s influence on Martin Luther King, Jr. The film includes interviews with former President Jimmy Carter, civil rights leader Andrew Young, Cornel West, David Brooks, Elisabeth Sifton, Susannah Heschel, Gary Dorrien, Robin Lovin, Stanley Hauerwas, Andrew Bacevich, Mark Massa, Andrew Finstuen, Healan Gaston, and many others.

This event is sponsored by Harvard Divinity School, the Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, the Harvard Colloquium for Intellectual History, the Harvard Center for American Political Studies, the Harvard Department of African & African American Studies, the Harvard History Department, and the Committee on the Study of Religion with support of the Rabbi Joseph F. Shubow Memorial Fund.

Please arrive early to secure a seat!