Theologians of a New World Order Rheinhold Niebuhr and the Christian Realists, 1920-1948

by Warren, Heather A.

• ISBN13: 9780195114386
• ISBN10: 0195114388
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-09-25
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book tells how a group of Protestant theologians forged a theology of international engagement for America in the 1930s and 40s, and how in doing so they informed the public rationale for the United States' participation in World War II and stimulated American leadership in establishing both secular and international organizations for the promotion of world order. This remarkable group included Henry P. Van Dusen, Reinhold Niebuhr, John Bennett, Francis P. Miller, Georgia Harkness, and Samual McCrea Cavert. Warren show how, in creating a coherent, theologically-derived position and bringing it to bear on contemporary international issues, this group combined ideas with public action in a way that set the standard for American theologians' social activism in the years to come.

Table of Contents

Introduction	3	(5)
ONE High Tide of American Protestantism, 1880-1920	8	(11)
TWO The Found Generation, 1890-1924	19	(16)
THREE Age of Negativism, 1925-1933	35	(21)
FOUR European Upheaval, Theological Ferment, 1933-1937	56	(20)
FIVE Proclamation and Organization, 1937-1939	76	(18)
SIX Making a New International Order in the War Years, 1939-1945	94	(22)
SEVEN From the Center to the Margins, 1945-1948	116	(13)
Conclusion	129	(4)
Notes	133	(34)
Bibliography	167	(26)
Index	193