Christian Realism and the Revival of Public Theology

Christian Realism and the Revival of Public Theology analyses Niebuhr's The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness eighty years after publication and argues that it provides pertinent lessons for the contemporary era.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. The Quintessential American Public Theologian 3. Ideological Illusions of the Children of Light and the Children of Darkness 4. The Individual and the Community in Peril 5. The Community and Property in the Age of Technics 6.Democratic (In)Toleration, the Dissolution of Community, and the Vital Role of Civil Religion 7. The Impossible Possibility of World Community 8. Conclusion

About the author

Charles McDaniel is an Associate Professor of Church-State Studies at Baylor University, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Charles McDaniel, McDaniel Charles
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 22.08.2025
• EAN: 9781032884936
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3288493-6
• No. of pages: 230
• Series: Routledge Studies in Religion and Politics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Christianity, Social & political philosophy, History of Religion, Religion & politics, social and political philosophy, Political structures: democracy, Religious ethics, Religion and Politics, Conservatism & right-of-centre democratic ideologies, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies, Right-of-centre democratic ideologies