Reinhold Niebuhr Revisited

Reinhold Niebuhr Revisited offers fresh and creative ways of looking at Niebuhr’s views on religion, politics, and American culture through the eyes of authors with diverse academic backgrounds and perspectives.

“Despite all the efforts to dismiss and replace [Niebuhr], he remains and is to be reckoned with – profitably, we must say – given the quality of the essays and the qualifications of the essayists in this book. . . . If Niebuhr is worth reading today, what should the reader be looking for, and how might discoveries from a now-historic figure be influential today, and for what should he be noteworthy and a figure of promise? The contributions to this volume are most helpful in answering these questions. . . . Read on, please, and engage Niebuhr anew.”-Martin E. Marty (from the foreword)

Contributors: Charles C. Brown, Henry B. Clark II, William Dean, Gary Dorrien, Douglas John Hall, Martin Halliwell, Mark Hulsether, Robin W. Lovin, Colm McKeogh, Martin E. Marty, Eyal J. Naveh, David W. Noble, Larry Rasmussen, Daniel F. Rice, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Roger L. Shinn, John E. Smith, Ronald H. Stone, Kenneth W. Thompson.