Oxford Handbook of Reinhold Niebuhr
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198813569
Number of Pages: 666
Published: 03/03/2021
Width: 18 cm
Height: 25.5 cm
Reinhold Niebuhr was a theologian, writer, and public intellectual who influenced religious leaders and social activists in the United States over four crucial decades in the middle of the twentieth century. The Oxford Handbook of Reinhold Niebuhr traces the development of his work through those years and provides an introduction to the dialogue partners and intellectual adversaries whom he influenced and who shaped his own thinking. It deals with major topics in theology and ethics, providing systematic focus to Niebuhr's wide-ranging works that were directed to many different audiences. Later chapters examine Niebuhr's contributions to political thinking and policy making on issues including international relations, pacifism and the use of force, racial and economic justice, family life and gender equality, and environmental concerns. The concluding section examines Niebuhr's legacy and continuing influence.
List of Contributors
Robin Lovin and Joshua Mauldin: 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
This handbook is a worthy predecessor of Kegley's and Bretall's important 1956 volume Reinhold Niebuhr: His Religious, Social, and Political Thought...it enriches the literature and allows younger students and scholars to get an impression of the width and depth of Niebuhr's life and work. * Christoph Rohde, Religion and the Liberal State in Niebuhr's Christian Realism * As K. Healan Gaston says, studying Niebuhr will continue "to engage those who care about religion, politics, and the quest for earthly justice." This book serves as a terrific springboard for such study. * Barbara Ridpath, Christian Century * The editors describe this handbook as "an attempt to set Niebuhr in his own context and consider the relevance of his thought for our world today" - and this it does very well. * Rt Revd Dr John Saxbee, The Church Times *