Why Niebuhr matters

✍ Scribed by Charles C Lemert

Publisher: Yale University Press logo&gt
Year: 2011
Tongue: English
Leaves: 272
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

''A leading social theorist analyzes how and why a revival of interest in Niebuhr has taken place, ultimately arguing for his political and moral relevance today''--Jacket.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Why Niebuhr? --
Reinhold Niebuhr: tamed cynic --
Evangelical preacher: wheat and tares --
Powers, pulpits, and politics: moral man and immoral society --
Sin, self, and society: nature and destiny of man --
Nations, global politics, and religion: irony and American history --
Political recovery and globalization: knowing the difference.
Abstract: ''A leading social theorist analyzes how and why a revival of interest in Niebuhr has taken place, ultimately arguing for his political and moral relevance today''--Jacket

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