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Reinhold Niebuhr
β Scribed by P. Merkley
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- McGill-Queen's University Press
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- 1975
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- English
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- 302
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β¦ Synopsis
During a lifetime of active involvement in American political life, Reinhold Niebuhr did much good and a certain amount of mischief. Both the good and the mischief are traceable to the same source: his faith. For too long, Niebuhr has been misrepresented by the political theorists and the historians as a link in the pragmatic tradition. It is time we began to do Niebuhr the justice of taking him at his own evaluation - as a dogmatic Christian. The meaning of his own life, he believed, was in the keeping of God. And so, he believed, was the meaning of his nation's history. He believed that history was radically open to all possibilities of both good and evil until its endβand he could thus nonchalantly apply to America's collective destiny the dictum of St. Paul that he applied to his own: that, "whether we live, we live unto the Lord, and whether we die, we die unto the Lord; whether we live therefore or die we are the Lord's."
β¦ Table of Contents
Cover
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
PART I. BETHEL'S PASTOR
1 Beginnings
2 A Theologian's Apprenticeship
3 The Protestant-Progressive Matrix
4 The World of Politics
PART II. APOSTLE TO THE LEFT
5 The Making of a Socialist
6 Reflections on the End of an Era
7 A Socialist Politician
8 Radical Religion
9 Agonies of a Dying Civilization
PART III. THE THEOLOGIAN OF CRISIS
10 History Takes Another Path
11 What Should America Do?
12 Christianity and Crisis
PART IV. THE THEOLOGIAN OF THE VITAL CENTER
13 Beyond Socialism
14 Toward a Just and Durable Peace
15 The Uses and Abuses of Reinhold Niebuhr
16 The Gospel and the Incredibilities of History
CONCLUSION: MIDDLE AXIOMS
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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