Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics: Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic / Moral Man and Immoral Society / The Children of ... of American History

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REINHOLD NIEBUHR
MAJOR WORKS ON RELIGION
AND POLITICS
Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic
Moral Man and Immoral Society
The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness
The Irony of American History
Other Writings
Elisabeth Sifton, editor
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Leaves from the Notebook of a Tamed Cynic copyright © 1929, renewed
1957 by Reinhold Niebuhr. Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics
and Politics copyright © 1932 by Charles Scribner’s Sons, renewed 1960 by
Reinhold Niebuhr. The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness: A
Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of its Traditional Defense copyright ©
1944 by Charles Scribner’s Sons, renewed 1972 by Ursula M. Niebuhr. The
Irony of American History copyright © 1952 by Charles Scribner’s Sons,
renewed 1980 by Ursula M. Niebuhr. All works reprinted by arrangement with
The Estate of Reinhold Niebuhr. All rights reserved. See Note on the Texts on
page 904 for sources and acknowledgements.
Library of Congress Control Number: 2014946648
Print 978–1–59853–375–0
eISBN 978–1–59853–405–4
Reinhold Niebuhr: Major Works on Religion and Politics
is kept in print with a gift from
PETER H. & JOAN M. KASKELL
in memory of his parents
JOSEPH KASKELL
(1891–1989)
a friend of Reinhold Niebuhr, who translated into German Niebuhr’s The
Children of Light and the Children of Darkness
and made possible its postwar publication in Germany
and
LILO KASKELL
(1901–1970)
photographer of Reinhold Niebuhr.
Contents
LEAVES FROM THE NOTEBOOK OF A TAMED CYNIC
MORAL MAN AND IMMORAL SOCIETY
THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT AND THE CHILDREN OF DARKNESS
THE IRONY OF AMERICAN HISTORY
WRITINGS ON CURRENT EVENTS 1928–1967
Protestantism and Prohibition
The Opposition in Germany
Letter from the Emergency Committee for Strikers’ Relief
An Appeal
Pius XI and His Successor
Russia and Karl Marx
An End to Illusions
Fighting Chance for a Sick Society
New Allies, Old Issues
The Limits of Liberty
Jews After the War
The Race Problem
The Bombing of Germany
The Death of a Martyr
The Myth of World Government
The Sources of American Prestige
Why Ike Is Popular
What Resources Can the Christian Church Offer to Meet the Crisis in Race
Relations?
A Thorn in the Flesh
The Moral World of Foster Dulles
Goldwater vs. History
Telegram to Martin Luther King
Vietnam: Study in Ironies
PRAYERS
For Our Inheritance: A Thanksgiving Prayer
“O Lord, hear our prayers”
“Our Father, we welcome this new day”
“Almighty Father, who are the source”
“We give you thanks, O Lord”
“We pray to you this day”
“Look with mercy upon this company of your people”
“We pray, O Lord, for your children everywhere”
“We pray for all who have authority in the world”
“O God, the sovereign of nations”
“Almighty God, we bring our praise”
“Eternal God, creator and redeemer of men”
The Serenity Prayer
SERMONS AND LECTURES ON FAITH AND BELIEF
Optimism, Pessimism and Religious Faith—I
Optimism, Pessimism and Religious Faith—II
The Things That Are and the Things That Are Not
The Christian Church in a Secular Age
from Discerning the Signs of the Times
Discerning the Signs of the Times
Mystery and Meaning
from Faith and History
The Current Refutation of the Idea of Redemption Through Progress
The Biblical View: The Sovereignty of God and Universal History
The Biblical View: Moral Meaning and Moral Obscurities of History
The Foolishness of the Cross and the Sense of History
Love and Law in Protestantism and Catholicism
from The Self and the Dramas of History
The Self and the Dramas of History
The Hebraic and the Hellenic Approaches to the Problem of Selfhood
and History
Theology and Political Thought in the Western World
The Wheat and the Tares
Chronology
Note on the Texts
Notes
Index