By Schubert Ogden
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From at least some of his discussions of it, what Niebuhr means by saying, "Sin is overcome in principle but not in fact" is that the true meaning of history has already been "disclosed" by "the revelation of divine sovereignty," but that "the fulfillment of that meaning" by lithe "the full establishment of that sovereignty" has not yet taken place (Reinhold Niebuhr on Politics: 135).
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