02841nam 2200613 a 450 991081673150332120230424213348.01-283-53100-397866138434560-7735-8339-410.1515/9780773583399(CKB)2670000000148978(OCoLC)767671299(CaPaEBR)ebrary10580831(SSID)ssj0000692711(PQKBManifestationID)11403386(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000692711(PQKBWorkID)10637644(PQKB)10887435(CEL)436046(CaBNVSL)slc00230143(Au-PeEL)EBL3332358(CaPaEBR)ebr10577943(CaONFJC)MIL384345(OCoLC)923237013(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/q30rhj(MiAaPQ)EBC3332358(DE-B1597)658038(DE-B1597)9780773583399(EXLCZ)99267000000014897820751204d1975 uy 0engurcn||||||a||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierReinhold Niebuhr a political account /Paul MerkleyMontreal :McGill-Queen's University Press,1975.1 online resource (302 pages)0-7735-0216-5 Includes bibliographical references and index.pt. 1. Bethel's pastor -- pt. 2. Apostle to the Left -- pt. 3. The theologian of crisis -- The theologian of the vital Center.During a lifetime of active involvement in American political life, Reinhold Niebuhr did much good and a certain amount of mischief. Both the good and the mischief are traceable to the same source: his faith. For too long, Niebuhr has been misrepresented by the political theorists and the historians as a link in the pragmatic tradition. It is time we began to do Niebuhr the justice of taking him at his own evaluation - as a dogmatic Christian. The meaning of his own life, he believed, was in the keeping of God. And so, he believed, was the meaning of his nation's history. He believed that history was radically open to all possibilities of both good and evil until its end—and he could thus nonchalantly apply to America's collective destiny the dictum of St. Paul that he applied to his own: that, "whether we live, we live unto the Lord, and whether we die, we die unto the Lord; whether we live therefore or die we are the Lord's."Christianity and politicsChristianity and politics.320.5/0924Merkley Paul Charles1934-473448MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910816731503321Reinhold Niebuhr4012501UNINA