Reinhold Niebuhr and contemporary politics
Subtitle: God and power
By: edited by Richard Harries and Stephen Platten
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780199571833
Other titles: Reinhold Niebuhr & contemporary politics
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-252) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / -- Richard Harris; title: Reinhold Niebuhr in historical perspective  -- Robin W. Lovin; title: On recent political uses of Reinhold Niebuhr :; title: toward a new appreciation of his legacy  -- Mac McCorkle; title: Niebuhr's 'nature of man' and Christian realism  -- Jean Bethke Elshtain; title: Radical orthodoxy's critique of Niebuhr  -- Ben Quash; title: The nature and destiny of serious theology  -- Samuel Wells; title: Reinhold Niebuhr's 'outsider ecclesiology'  -- Wendy Dackson; title: Niebuhr, liturgy, and public theology  -- Stephen Platten; title: Falling far short :; title: taking sin seriously  -- Martyn Percy; title: Distinguishing hope from Utopian aspiration :; title: revisiting Reinhold Niebuhr  -- Ian Markham; title: Reinhold Niebuhr and the political possibility of forgiveness  -- Nigel Biggar; title: What makes us think that God wants democracy?  -- Richard Harries; title: Realism and progress :; title: Niebuhr's thought and contemporary challenges  -- Anatol Lieven; title: Reinhold Niebuhr and the use of force  -- John D. Carlson; title: The irony of American evangelical politics  -- Kevin Carnahan; title: Reinhold Niebuhr and the problem of religious pluralism  -- Wilfred M. McClay -- Conclusion :; title: Realism revisited -- Stephen Platten.