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Reinhold Niebuhr helps us to understand why our politics is broken and research on the brain confirms his analysis: we are all vain and self-righteous, and far too quick to reject anyone who thinks otherwise. To restore a democracy that works, we need to understand ourselves better and develop the humility such knowledge should engender.

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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.

2 NIEBUHR, REINHOLD --- Godsdienst. Theologie--NIEBUHR, REINHOLD --- 2 NIEBUHR, REINHOLD Godsdienst. Theologie--NIEBUHR, REINHOLD --- Christian ethics --- Christianity and politics --- Christian sociology --- History --- Niebuhr, Reinhold, --- Nībā, Rainhōrudo, --- Nibuer, --- ניבור, ריינהולד, --- 20th century --- Niebuhr, Karl Paul Reinhold, --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion

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Reinhold Niebuhr, the prominent American theologian, was one of the few religious figures who had a significant impact on the broader society outside the theological community in the United States during the twentieth century. Niebuhr's influence was most pronounced among those associated with historical studies and politics. This book presents Niebuhr in dialogue with seven individuals who each had a major influence on American life: the theologian Paul Tillich, philosopher/educator John Dewey, socialist Norman Thomas, historian Arthur Schlesinger, Jr, international political theorist Hans Morganthau, diplomat George Kennan and Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter. Through a detailed examination of Niebuhr's interactions with these figures, Daniel F. Rice's study offers a survey of mid-twentieth-century theology, political thought and culture.

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Christianity and politics --- History --- Niebuhr, Reinhold, --- Tillich, Paul, --- 2 NIEBUHR, REINHOLD --- 2 TILLICH, PAUL --- Godsdienst. Theologie--NIEBUHR, REINHOLD --- Godsdienst. Theologie--TILLICH, PAUL --- Tillich, Paulus J., --- Dilixi, --- Tīllīsh, Pal, --- تيليش، پل --- Nībā, Rainhōrudo, --- Nibuer, --- ניבור, ריינהולד, --- 2 TILLICH, PAUL Godsdienst. Theologie--TILLICH, PAUL --- 2 NIEBUHR, REINHOLD Godsdienst. Theologie--NIEBUHR, REINHOLD --- Tillich, Paul --- Niebuhr, Karl Paul Reinhold, --- Christianity and politics - History - 20th century. --- Niebuhr, Reinhold, - 1892-1971 --- Tillich, Paul, - 1886-1965

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"After the re-emergence of the tradition of virtue ethics in the early 1980s Reinhold Niebuhr has often served as a foil for authors who locate themselves in that tradition. However, this exercise has often proved controversial. This collection of essays continues this work, across a wide range of subjects, with the aim of avoiding some of the polemics that have previously accompanied it. The central thesis of this book is that putting the work of Reinhold Niebuhr and Christian realism in dialogue with contemporary virtue theory is a profitable undertaking. An introductory essay argues against locating Niebuhr as a consequentialist and in favour of thinking of his work in terms of a dispositional ethics Contributors take different positions on whether Niebuhr's dispositional ethics should be considered a form of virtue ethics or an alternative to virtue ethics. Several of the articles relate Niebuhr and Christian realism to particular virtues. Throughout there is an appreciation of the ways in which any Niebuhrian approach to dispositional ethics or virtue must be shaped by a sense of tragedy, paradox, or irony. The most moral disposition will be one which includes doubts about its own virtue. This volume allows for a repositioning of Niebuhr in the context of contemporary moral theory as well as a rereading of the tradition of virtue ethics in the light of a distinctly Protestant, Christian realist and paradoxical view of virtue. As a result, it will be of great interest to scholars of Niebuhr and Christian Ethics and scholars working in Moral Philosophy and the Philosophy of Religion more generally"--

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