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The Christian realists : reassessing the contributions of Niebuhr and his contemporaries / edited by Eric Patterson ; foreword by Jean Bethke Elshtain.

Contributor(s): Patterson, Eric, 1971-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, 2003Description: x, 239 pages ; 22 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0761826203 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Christianity and politics -- History of doctrines -- 20th century | Christian sociology -- History of doctrines -- 20th century | Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971DDC classification: 261.7/092/2 LOC classification: BR115.P7 | C3796 2003Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
Niebuhr and his contemporaries: introduction to Christian realism / Eric Patterson -- Niebuhr and his critics: realistic optimism in world politics / Eric Patterson -- The prophetic realism of John Foster Dulles, 1937-1945 / Mark G. Toulouse -- Herbert Butterfield and the limits of Christian realism / Malcolm R. Thorp -- Martin Wight: politics in the era of Leviathan / Daniel Young -- John Coleman Bennett in contemporary context / David McCreary -- Cups half full: John Courtney Murray's skirmishes with Christian realism / Leon Hooper -- Christian realism in a pluralistic society: interactions between Niebuhr and Morgenthau, Kennan, and Schlesinger / Roger L. Shinn -- The ironies of Christian realism: the end of an Augustinian tradition in international politics / Roger Epp.

Includes bibliographical references.

Niebuhr and his contemporaries: introduction to Christian realism / Eric Patterson -- Niebuhr and his critics: realistic optimism in world politics / Eric Patterson -- The prophetic realism of John Foster Dulles, 1937-1945 / Mark G. Toulouse -- Herbert Butterfield and the limits of Christian realism / Malcolm R. Thorp -- Martin Wight: politics in the era of Leviathan / Daniel Young -- John Coleman Bennett in contemporary context / David McCreary -- Cups half full: John Courtney Murray's skirmishes with Christian realism / Leon Hooper -- Christian realism in a pluralistic society: interactions between Niebuhr and Morgenthau, Kennan, and Schlesinger / Roger L. Shinn -- The ironies of Christian realism: the end of an Augustinian tradition in international politics / Roger Epp.

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