Why Niebuhr now?

Barack Obama has called him 'one of my favorite philosophers'. John McCain wrote that he is 'a paragon of clarity about the costs of a good war'. Andrew Sullivan has said, 'We need Niebuhr now more than ever'. For a theologian who died in 1971, Reinhold Niebuhr is maint...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Diggins, John Patrick (-)
Formato: Libro
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press cop. 2011
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • What we can learn from Reinhold Niebuhr
  • "Seek with groans": the making of a theologian
  • Religion: "a recipe for decadence"
  • The closing of the European mind
  • The opening of the American mind
  • The cunning of American history
  • God is dead, long live religion!