Christianity and power politics PDF
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libraries of ^urbue ^ui6.r ttg ^ jj^ OTHER BOOKS BY REINHOLD NIEBUHR THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT AND THE CHILDREN OF DARKNESS THE NATURE AND DESTINY OF MAN (2 VOLSJ VOL. I. HUMAN NATURE VOL. II. HUMAN DESTINY CHRISTIANITY AND POWER POLITICS BEYOND TRAGEDY AN INTERPRETATION OF CHRISTIAN ETHICS REFLECTIONS ON THEENDOF AN ERA MORAL MAN AND IMMORAL SOCIETY THECONTRIBUTION OFRELIGION TO SOCIAL WORK LEAVES FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF A TAMED CYNIC DOES CIVILIZATION NEEDRELIGION? CHRISTIANITY AND POWER POLITICS Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 http://www.archive.org/details/christianitypoweOOnieb CHRISTIANITY AND POWER POLITICS BY Jleinhold J^iebuhr 26/ NEW YORK Charles Scrihner's Sons 1952 • • Copyright, 1940,by CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica Allrights reserved. No partofthis book may be reproduced in anyform without th*permissionofCharlesScribnsr'sSons CONTENTS PREFACE IX WHY THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH 1. IS NOT PACIFIST I THE WAR AND AMERICAN CHURCHES 2. 33 GERMANY AND THE WESTERN WORLD 3. 49 DEMOCRACY AND FOREIGN POLICY 4. 6s 5. IDEALISTS AS CYNICS 75 6. PEACE AND THE LIBERAL ILLUSION 83 GREEK TRAGEDY AND MODERN 7. POLITICS 95 8. IDEOLOGY AND PRETENSE IO7 9. SYNTHETIC BARBARISM II7 vii I CONTENTS 10. THE FALSE ANSWERS TO OUR UNSOLVED PROBLEMS I3I 11. MODERN UTOPIANS I4I 12. HITLER AND BUCHMAN 159 13. AN END TO ILLUSIONS 167 14. OPTIMISM, PESSIMISM AND RELIGIOUS FAITH— I77 15. OPTIMISM, PESSIMISM AND RELIGIOUS FAITH—II 189 16. THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH IN A SECULAR AGE 203 VIU
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