Niebuhr and His Age : Reinhold Niebuhr's Prophetic Role and Legacy

by Brown, Charles C.

• ISBN13: 9781563383755
• ISBN10: 1563383756
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-03-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Academic

Summary

Now available in paperback, Niebuhr and His Age provides an extensively researched account of Reinhold Niebuhr, and includes a foreword by Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Table of Contents

Foreword to the New Edition	vii
Preface to the New Edition	x
Preface to the First Edition	xiii
Niebuhr's Wisdom in an Age of Perplexity	1	(8)
From His Father's Parsonage to the Motor City	9	(27)
Gustav Niebuhr and the Heritage of German Pietism	9	(3)
Elmhurst, Eden, and Yale	12	(8)
Bethel's Pastor: Early Years	20	(3)
The Hard Realities of Europe and Detroit	23	(6)
Bethel's Pastor: Later Years	29	(7)
Toward Christian Realism in Social Ethics	36	(32)
Union Seminary and the World	36	(9)
Searching for Justice in the Depths of a Depression	45	(8)
Ethics in a Theological Context	53	(3)
Faith and Politics in a Disjointed Time	56	(9)
``When the Beer is Served at Reinie's''	65	(3)
The Magnum Opus: Human Nature and Destiny	68	(27)
The Gifford Lectures	68	(6)
Classicism, Modernity, and a Christian View of Human Nature	74	(7)
A Synthesis of Renaissance Values and Reformation Insights	81	(8)
Assessments of a Great Work	89	(6)
Defending the West against the Nazi Menace	95	(29)
The Drift to War from Munich to the Fall of France	95	(2)
The Western Cause in the Age of Churchill	97	(10)
``In the Battle and Above It''	107	(7)
Democracy Vindicated	114	(4)
Roosevelt and the Climax of the War	118	(6)
Politics and Theology in the Postwar Years	124	(41)
Europe Divided: Russia and the West	124	(7)
In the Classroom and on the Road	131	(6)
The Marshall Plan, Israel, and Amsterdam	137	(8)
Truman and the Policy of Containment	145	(8)
Theological Insights on Life and History	153	(8)
America's Precarious Eminence	161	(4)
The World and Union Seminary at Mid-Century	165	(24)
The Advent of the Eisenhower Era	165	(8)
Union Seminary in the 1950s	173	(8)
The Uneasy Peace of a Nuclear Age	181	(8)
Christian Faith and the Social Order	189	(23)
Politics and Culture in a Technical Society	189	(8)
Hebraic and Hellenic Sources of the Western Heritage	197	(4)
A Pious and Secular Nation	201	(5)
Nations and Empires in the Configurations of History	206	(6)
Advice and Reflections in a Troubled Decade	212	(34)
Kennedy's Achievement	212	(9)
Belated Justice for Black Americans	221	(3)
Catholicism and Protestantism in Transition	224	(6)
Dynamics and Enigmas of Human Existence	230	(3)
A Misguided Venture in Southeast Asia	233	(6)
The World in the Later 1960s	239	(3)
``A Prophet among Us''	242	(4)
The Nieburian Legacy	246	(13)
Appendix A: A Reinhold Niebuhr Chronology	259	(3)
Appendix B: A Review of Literature on Reinhold Niebuhr's Life and Thought	262	(16)
Notes	278	(33)
Bibliography and Other Sources	311	(6)
Index	317