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This authoritative
Handbook features 38 chapters placing Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) in his historical context to offer readers an appreciation of his insights and how he was received by his contemporaries.
List of contents
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- PART I: NIEBUHR AND HIS TIMES
- 1: K. Healan Gaston: Niebuhr's Background: Family, Church, and Society
- 2: Jeremy Sabella: The 1930s: Economic Crisis and 'The End of an Era'
- 3: Graeme Smith: The 1940s: Global War and Global Responsibility
- 4: Andrew Finstuen: The 1950s: The Ironies of American Power
- 5: Gary Dorrien: The 1960s: The Struggle for Justice and the 'View from the Sidelines'
- PART II: ALLIES AND ADVERSARIES
- 6: William Stacy Johnson: H. Richard Niebuhr
- 7: Joshua Mauldin: Karl Barth
- 8: William Inboden: George Kennan
- 9: Daniel Rice: John Dewey
- 10: Adam Pryor: Paul Tillich
- 11: Francesca Cadeddu: John Courtney Murray
- 12: Susannah Heschel: Abraham Heschel
- 13: Peter J. Paris: Martin Luther King, Jr.
- PART III: THEOLOGICAL STARTING POINTS
- 14: Douglas F. Ottati: God
- 15: Richard Crouter: Sin
- 16: Frederick V. Simmons: Love
- 17: D. Stephen Long: Christology
- 18: David True: Ecclesiology
- 19: Jodie L. Lyon: Eschatology
- PART IV: ETHICS
- 20: Kevin Carnahan: Moral Realism
- 21: Gerald McKenny: Human Nature and Moral Norms
- 22: Robin Lovin: Justice
- 23: William Schweiker: Responsibility
- 24: Daniel A. Morris: Tragedy and Irony
- 25: Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty: Feminism
- 26: Eric Gregory: Democracy
- PART V: POLITICS AND POLICY
- 27: G. Scott Davis: Violence, Pacifism, and the Use of Force
- 28: C. Melissa Snarr: Economic Justice
- 29: Alda Balthrop-Lewis: Nature and Environment
- 30: Traci C. West: Racial Justice
- 31: Rebekah Miles: Family, Sexuality, and Society
- 32: Heather A. Warren: American Foreign Policy
- 33: Richard J. Hoskins: International Relations Theory
- 34: Scott Paeth: Nations and Nationalism
- PART VI: NIEBUHR'S LEGACY
- 35: Stanley Hauerwas: Reinhold Niebuhr: An Insightful Theologian
- 36: Jeffrey Stout: The Ironies of Proximate Justice
- 37: John Bew: The Art of Imperial Politics and the Interminable Frustrations of History
- 38: Robin Lovin: Two Students: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Kiyoko Takeda
About the author
Robin Lovin is Cary M. Maguire University Professor of Ethics emeritus at Southern Methodist University and a Visiting Scholar in Theology at Loyola University Chicago.
Joshua Mauldin is Associate Director of the Center of Theological Inquiry in Princeton.
Summary
This authoritative Handbook features 38 chapters placing Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) in his historical context to offer readers an appreciation of his insights and how he was received by his contemporaries.
