The Essential Reinhold Niebuhr: Selected Essays and AddressesYale University Press, 1 janv. 1986 - 264 pages Theologian, ethicist, and political analyst, Reinhold Niebuhr was a towering figure of twentieth-century religious thought. Now newly repackaged, this important book gathers the best of Niebuhr’s essays together in a single volume. Selected, edited, and introduced by Robert McAfee Brown—a student and friend of Niebuhr’s and himself a distinguished theologian—the works included here testify to the brilliant polemics, incisive analysis, and deep faith that characterized the whole of Niebuhr’s life.“This fine anthology makes available to a new generation the thought of one of the most penetrating and rewarding of twentieth-century minds. Reinhold Niebuhr remains the great illuminator of the dark conundrums of human nature, history and public policy.”—Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.“Sparkling gems. . . brought from the shadows of history into contemporary light. Beautifully selected and edited, they show that Niebuhr’s fiery polemics and gracious assurances still speak with power to us today.”—Roger L. Shinn“An extremely useful volume.”—David Brion Davis, New York Review of Books“This collection, which brings together Niebuhr’s most penetrating and enduring essays on theology and politics, should demonstrate for a new generation that his best thought transcends the immediate historical setting in which he wrote. . . . [Brown’s] introduction succinctly presents the central features of Niebuhr’s life and thought.”—Library Journal |
Table des matières
The Providence of God | 33 |
Humour and Faith | 49 |
The Assurance of Grace | 61 |
Prayers | 72 |
The Christian Church in a Secular Age | 79 |
The Christian Witness in the Social and National Order | 93 |
Why the Christian Church Is Not Pacifist | 102 |
Augustines Political Realism | 123 |
The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness | 160 |
The Relations of Christians and Jews in Western | 182 |
THE POSSIBILITIES AND LIMITATIONS | 203 |
Coherence Incoherence and Christian Faith | 218 |
Mystery and Meaning | 237 |
A View of Life from the Sidelines | 250 |
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Love and Law in Protestantism and Catholicism | 142 |
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The Essential Reinhold Niebuhr: Selected Essays and Addresses Reinhold Niebuhr Aucun aperçu disponible - 1986 |
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