Robin W Lovin
Biographic Data
| ID | 295584 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robin W Lovin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robin W |
| FAMILY NAME | Lovin |
| SIGNATURE | LOVIN R W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Southern Methodist University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2127-7204 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1972 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Public Moral Discourse
Public moral discourse encompasses open discussions in which moral concepts of good and right are brought to bear on questions of public policy and on broader issues of basic rights and the goals and rules that guide social institutions. These public questions also raise practical, apologetic, and political concerns that are central to Christian ethics and moral theology. Public discourse frames legal and political understandings of religious fre…
Reinhold Niebuhr’s Realistic Pluralism
While Reinhold Niebuhr was particularly concerned with the “foolish children of light” who expected their ideals to be easily realized in the politics of liberal democracy, his realistic pluralism rests on a broader idea about the relationship of “impossible ideals” to “proximate solutions.” His vindication of democracy in The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness makes a political case for religious freedom that may be relevant even in …
Human Dignity and Public Reason
The concept of human dignity is important for understanding discussions of rights, religion, and society in contemporary China. While the neoliberal idea of “public reason” abstracts human rights from cultural particularities and religious convictions to provide an idea of universal rights, human dignity includes these social and cultural elements to provide an account of human rights in social context. Classical conceptions of political virtue, …
Islamic and Christian Political Thought as Comparative Religious Ethics
Ronald F. Thiemann, The Humble Sublime: Secularity and the Politics of Belief
Longing for the New Jerusalem
Eschatology both shapes our political expectations and limits them. Those who know what to expect from politics have a political theology, whether or not they call it by that name. For Reinhold Niebuhr, such an understanding of expectations and limits is central to Augustinian Christianity and to the tradition of the Hebrew prophets. In this eschatology, the judgment of God is the final standard of justice, but it always lies beyond our highest h…
Virtue, Law, and Sacred Attunement
Christian Realism and the New Realities
Cue the Chorus
The three essays by Dunn, Rapp, and Decosimo show us how comparative religious ethics is developing as a field of study. Those who do comparison today are less concerned with methods and theories than with finding an angle of vision that enables readers to locate themselves in moral reality. Precisely because resemblance is ubiquitous, as Decosimo says, comparisons do not form themselves and wait to be discovered. Comparisons are the product of t…
Reinhold Niebuhr and Christian Realism
Christian Realism for the Twenty‐first Century
Christian realism has provided a theological understanding of politics that identifies the limits within which all political choices are made. Those limits are set by a theological understanding of judgment, which reserves the ultimate meaning of history to divine judgment, and by a theological understanding of responsibility, which gives proximate meaning to the choices between greater and lesser goods that are available to human politics. The a…
Reinhold Niebuhr: Impact and Implications
Reinhold Niebuhr: Impact and Implications
Reinhold Niebuhr's realistic theology and ethics provided a stark contrast to the optimistic Protestant liberalism of a previous generation. His success in reshaping the political theology of his contemporaries has led some recent critics to dismiss him as simply an echo of a cultural consensus which he in fact did much to create. The quite different realities of our time suggest, however, that we cannot be Niebuhrian realists simply by repeating…
Reinhold Niebuhr in Contemporary Scholarship
Recent studies of Reinhold Niebuhr's life and work demonstrate his continued importance in theology, ethics, and political thought. Historical studies by Heather Warren, Mark Kleinman, and Normunds Kamergrauzis provide new assessments of Niebuhr's role as a political and religious leader in his own time and trace the consequences of the movements in which he participated. They also show us more clearly how his work was connected to the ideas and …
Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason. John Milbank
The Limits of Freedom and the Possibilities of Politics: A Christian Realist Account of Political Responsibility
For the Sake of the World: The Spirit of Buddhist and Christian Monasticism . Patrick G. Henry , Donald K. Swearer
Religion and American Public Life
Ethics in the Context of the Moral Life: "A Review of Select Articles in the "Encyclopedia of Religion
Cosmogony and Ethical Order: New Studies in Comparative Ethics
The School and the Articulation of Values
Both value-neutrality and values clarification underestimate the possibility for critical thinking about values in the pluralistic context of the public school classroom. Identifying the standards of rationality that we ordinarily apply to value claims made by ourselves and others suggests another approach, which I here call values articulation. Values articulation avoids the noncognitivism and moral relativism that critics have found in other me…
Religion and American Public Life: Interpretations and Explorations
Attitudes to Other Religions: Comparative Religion in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain . David A. Pailin
Cosmogony and Ethical Order: New Studies in Comparative Ethics
Theologians under Hitler: Gerhard Kittel, Paul Althaus, and Emanuel Hirsch . Robert P. Ericksen
Cosmogony and Ethical Order: New Studies in Comparative Ethics
Reinhold Niebuhr: Impact and Implications
Reinhold Niebuhr: Impact and Implications
Reinhold Niebuhr's realistic theology and ethics provided a stark contrast to the optimistic Protestant liberalism of a previous generation. His success in reshaping the political theology of his contemporaries has led some recent critics to dismiss him as simply an echo of a cultural consensus which he in fact did much to create. The quite different realities of our time suggest, however, that we cannot be Niebuhrian realists simply by repeating…
Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition
The Universal Perspective and Moral Development
Every decision, from trivial considerations of where to have lunch to the momentous conclusion that it is right to risk life for the realization of some ideal, is made by a man who has personal interests, group loyalties, and his own preferences and aversions. In many practical decisions, such as choosing an investment portfolio or inviting guests to a party, we expect these particular interests to play a role in guiding the choices. By contrast,…
Covenantal Relationships and Political Legitimacy
Religious Thought and Economic Society: Four Chapters of an Unfinished Work. Jacob Viner , Jacques Melitz , Donald Winch
Law and Revolution: The Formation of the Western Legal Tradition
Equality and Covenant Theology
American culture bears a lasting imprint from its Puritan founders. Their ideal of a social and political community based on a religious covenant has provided a sense of mutual obligation and commitment to public purposes in American life that cannot be fully explained by the contractarian notion of “mutually disinterested” persons who join forces to further their individual aims more effectively. Covenant theology, at the beginnings of modern li…
Discipline: The Canonical Buddhism of the Vinayapitaka . John C. Holt
Forced Options: Social Decisions for the Twenty-First Century . Roger L. Shinn
Inequality and the American Conscience: Justice Through the Judicial System . Christopher F. Mooney
Morality Amid the Ruins: Jeffrey Stout on the Failure of Authority and AutonomyThe Flight from Authority. Jeffrey Stout
Theologians under Hitler: Gerhard Kittel, Paul Althaus, and Emanuel Hirsch . Robert P. Ericksen
Liberating Faith: Bonhoeffer's Message for Today . Geffrey B. Kelly
Cosmogony and Ethical Order: New Studies in Comparative Ethics
Attitudes to Other Religions: Comparative Religion in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain . David A. Pailin
Cosmogony and Ethical Order: New Studies in Comparative Ethics
The School and the Articulation of Values
Both value-neutrality and values clarification underestimate the possibility for critical thinking about values in the pluralistic context of the public school classroom. Identifying the standards of rationality that we ordinarily apply to value claims made by ourselves and others suggests another approach, which I here call values articulation. Values articulation avoids the noncognitivism and moral relativism that critics have found in other me…
Religion and American Public Life: Interpretations and Explorations
Cosmogony and Ethical Order: New Studies in Comparative Ethics
Religion and American Public Life
Ethics in the Context of the Moral Life: "A Review of Select Articles in the "Encyclopedia of Religion
For the Sake of the World: The Spirit of Buddhist and Christian Monasticism . Patrick G. Henry , Donald K. Swearer
The Limits of Freedom and the Possibilities of Politics: A Christian Realist Account of Political Responsibility
Theology and Social Theory: Beyond Secular Reason. John Milbank
Reinhold Niebuhr in Contemporary Scholarship
Recent studies of Reinhold Niebuhr's life and work demonstrate his continued importance in theology, ethics, and political thought. Historical studies by Heather Warren, Mark Kleinman, and Normunds Kamergrauzis provide new assessments of Niebuhr's role as a political and religious leader in his own time and trace the consequences of the movements in which he participated. They also show us more clearly how his work was connected to the ideas and …
Reinhold Niebuhr: Impact and Implications
Reinhold Niebuhr's realistic theology and ethics provided a stark contrast to the optimistic Protestant liberalism of a previous generation. His success in reshaping the political theology of his contemporaries has led some recent critics to dismiss him as simply an echo of a cultural consensus which he in fact did much to create. The quite different realities of our time suggest, however, that we cannot be Niebuhrian realists simply by repeating…
Reinhold Niebuhr: Impact and Implications
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