The Civil Rights Movement. The Cuban Missile Crisis. The assassination
of a president and a senator, both from the same family. Praise turns
into protest; hope into disenchantment, as democracy's new day goes up
in flames. The 1960's was an era born in hope and ends in deep
conflict. During this era, Reinhold Niebuhr, once dubbed "America's
theologian," retires from Union Seminary in New York. Though little
has been published about him in this decade, much of Niebuhr's life
and work are as much shaped and transformed by this era as his work
shapes and transforms the discourse in theology, ethics, and the
politics of the age. Ronald H. Stone, a former
student-turned-colleague of Niebuhr, brilliantly introduces readers to
the Niebuhr of the 1960's. In his analysis of Niebuhr, he shows a
theologian whose work sometimes turns less theological and becomes
more secular in his writing with a view toward speaking to a less
religious, more secular world around him. Stone's delightful book
introduces readers to never-before seen letters between the author and
Reinhold and Ursula Niebuhr, Stone points the way for theologians,
ethicists, politicians, and those otherwise seeking justice and peace
into the conflicted world today.
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ISBN
9781506446257
Publisert
2020
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Fortress Press NBN
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Engelsk
Format
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Digital bok
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