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Title: The Essential Reinhold Niebuhr: Selected Essays and Addresses by Robert McAfee Brown ISBN: 0-300-04001-6 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: September, 1987 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.00 |
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Summary: Essential indeed
Comment: Niebuhr was not only one of the great Protestant theologians of the last century: he was one of very few thinkers ever to have derived a sophisticated and illuminating approach to the worldly order from theological premises. This collection of his writings contains some truly essential expressions of his philosophy, in the form of shorter essays and addresses.
The volume's consistent theme is the Augustinian realism that Niebuhr expounded in the darkest years of modern history, when the western democracies faced the tyrannies of Nazi Germany and expansionist Communism. Against these messianiac creeds, Niebuhr posited the merits of democracy, *not* because of its supposed congruence with the characteristics of the Kingdom of God but because of its effect in tempering the destructiveness of man's urge for dominion.
He did so, moreover, when many Christians were susceptible to the romantic illusion that discipleship required them to oppose the militant defence of western values. No one has better exposed these pretensions than Niebuhr in his essay 'Why the Christian Church is not Pacifist', included in this volume. Those Christians' mistake was to fail to understand the nature of evil. To regard the Sermon on the Mount as a manual for political action without seeing it in the context of Jesus's expectation of the irruption of the Kingdom of God into human history is a misreading. The message of the Gospels is not non-violence, but the immanence of the Kingdom. Niebuhr argues that while conflict is not part of the Kingdom of God, it does not thereby dissipate if Christians act as though they are already living in the Kingdom.
This is a powerful corrective to much wishful thinking that passes for Christian social ethics. It ought to be read urgently by anyone who imagines that the sentimentality of today's anti-war movement, when the western democracies are fighting an enemy as destructive and nihilistic as any seen in the last century, is an expression of the Law of Love.
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Title: Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study of Ethics and Politics by Reinhold Niebuhr, Langdon Gilkey, Niebuhr Reinhold, Robin W. Lovin ISBN: 0664224741 Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Pub. Date: February, 2002 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Reinhold Niebuhr: A Biography by Richard Wightman Fox, Richard Wrightman Fox ISBN: 0801483697 Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr Pub. Date: January, 1997 List Price(USD): $21.50 |
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Title: The Nature and Destiny of Man: A Christian Interpretation: Human Nature (Library of Theological Ethics) by Reinhold Niebuhr, Robin W. Lovin ISBN: 0664257097 Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Pub. Date: November, 1996 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: The Serenity Prayer: Faith and Politics in Times of Peace and War by Elisabeth Sifton ISBN: 0393057461 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.95 |
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Title: Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic by Reinhold Niebuhr, Martin E. Marty ISBN: 0664251641 Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press Pub. Date: January, 1991 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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