Reinhold Niebuhr and contemporary politics : God and power /
When Barack Obama praised the writings of Reinhold Niebuhr in the run up to his election, he joined a long line of politicians who engaged with Niebuhr's ideas. This book discusses how a re-evaluation of Niebuhr's thought can help inform contemporary debates on Christian social ethics and...
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Richard Harris
- Reinhold Niebuhr in historical perspective / Robin W. Lovin
- On recent political uses of Reinhold Niebuhr : toward a new appreciation of his legacy / Mac McCorkle
- Niebuhr's 'nature of man' and Christian realism / Jean Bethke Elshtain
- Radical orthodoxy's critique of Niebuhr / Ben Quash
- The nature and destiny of serious theology / Samuel Wells
- Reinhold Niebuhr's 'outsider ecclesiology' / Wendy Dackson
- Niebuhr, liturgy, and public theology / Stephen Platten
- Falling far short : taking sin seriously / Martyn Percy
- Distinguishing hope from Utopian aspiration : revisiting Reinhold Niebuhr / Ian Markham
- Reinhold Niebuhr and the political possibility of forgiveness / Nigel Biggar
- What makes us think that God wants democracy? / Richard Harries
- Realism and progress : Niebuhr's thought and contemporary challenges / Anatol Lieven
- Reinhold Niebuhr and the use of force / John D. Carlson
- The irony of American evangelical politics / Kevin Carnahan
- Reinhold Niebuhr and the problem of religious pluralism / Wilfred M. McClay
- Conclusion : Realism revisited / Stephen Platten.