Why Niebuhr matters
By: Charles Lemert
Series: Why X matters
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 252
ISBN-13: 9780300192544
Subjects: Influence
Description: Reinhold Niebuhr was a Protestant preacher, an influential religious thinker, and an important moral guide in mid-twentieth-century America. But what does he have to say to us now? In this title, the author analyzes why interest in Niebuhr is rising and how Niebuhr provides the answers we ache for in the face of seismic shifts in the global order.
Notes: Originally published: 2011.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-235) and index.
Table of contents: title: Why Niebuhr?; title: Reinhold Niebuhr: tamed cynic; title: Evangelical preacher: wheat and tares; title: Powers, pulpits, and politics: moral man and immoral society; title: Sin, self, and society: nature and destiny of man; title: Nations, global politics, and religion: irony and American history; title: Political recovery and globalization: knowing the difference.