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Reinhold Niebuhr on politics, religion, and Christian faith
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ISBN: 9780195379686 9780195379679 Year: 2010 Publisher: Oxford Oxford University Press

Reinhold Niebuhr and Christian realism
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ISBN: 0521479320 0521443636 0511520158 Year: 1995 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This is a new assessment of the work of the twentieth century's best-known public theologian. Reinhold Niebuhr's ability to make sense of international politics, racial tension, labour unrest, and cultural transformations gained him a wide audience, but his responsiveness to changing times was grounded in a remarkably consistent theology. Today, Christian realism remains an important way to understand politics and society in theological terms, but the enduring themes of Niebuhr's work must also be related to new generations of thinkers in theology, politics, law, and philosophy. Robin W. Lovin traces its key themes so as to identify the political, moral, and theological realisms on which Niebuhr's persuasive and subtle depiction of human nature rests. In that context, a complex, dialectical, Niebuhrian approach still appears as a vital and lively alternative to the oversimplified accounts of politics and justice that have dominated recent decades.

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