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Essential Reinhold Niebuhr : Selected Essays and Addresses.

Theologian, ethicist, and political analyst, Reinhold Niebuhr was a towering figure of twentieth-century religious thought. Now newly repackaged, this important book gathers the best of Niebuhr's essays together in a single volume. Selected, edited, and introduced by Robert McAfee Brown-a stude...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Niebuhr, Reinhold
Otros Autores: Brown, Robert McAfee
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1987.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • ""The Essential Reinholo Niebuhr""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction by Robert McAfee Brown""; ""PART I PESSIMISTIC OPTIMISM""; ""1 Optimism, Pessimism, and Religious Faith""; ""PART II GOD'S JUSTICE AND MERCY""; ""2 The Power and Weakness of God""; ""3 Two SermonsThe Providence of God""; ""The Wheat and the Tares""; ""4 Humour and Faith""; ""5 The Assurance of Grace""; ""6 Prayers""; ""PART III THE CHURCH AND THE MODERN WORLD""; ""7 The Christian Church in a Secular Age""; ""8 The Christian Witness in the Social and National Order""
  • ""9 Why the Christian Church Is Not Pacifist""""PART IV THEOLOGICAL ETHICS: RESOURCES FOR ENGAGEMENT""; ""10 Augustine's Political Realism""; ""11 Love and Law in Protestantism and Catholicism""; ""12 The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness""; ""13 The Relations of Christians and Jews in Western Civilization""; ""PART V THE POSSIBILITIES AND LIMITATIONS OF OUR KNOWING""; ""14 Ideology and the Scientific Method""; ""15 Coherence, Incoherence, and Christian Faith""; ""16 Mystery and Meaning""; ""Epilogue: A View of Life from the Sidelines""; ""Index of Persons""