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Online-Ressource (302 p)
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9780773502161
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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 end-and 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.".
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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 -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
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""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""
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""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""; ""INDEX""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""
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ISBN 9780773583399
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780773502161
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Reinhold Niebuhr : A Political Account
Language:
English
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