Introduction
Why read Reinhold Niebuhr now
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12923474 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Liane Hartnett (0000-0001-6018-4903, La Trobe University, corresponding author), Lucian M Ashworth (0000-0002-7468-2556, Memorial University of Newfoundland) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 17 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 118-122 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-16 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of International Political Theory (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1755-0882 • E-ISSN: 1755-1722 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1755088220981093 |
| OpenAlex | W3111118299 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) is perhaps the best known North American theologian of the twentieth century. Over the course of his life he was a Christian socialist, pacifist, a staunch anti-communist, and an architect of vital-centre liberalism. Niebuhr wrote on themes as diverse as war, democracy, world order, political economy and race. So significant was Niebuhr’s intellectual influence that George Kennan once described him as ‘the father of us all’. Indeed, from the thought of Barack Obama to Jimmy Carter, Martin Luther King Jr. to Arthur Schlesinger Jr., Hans Morgenthau to Kenneth Waltz, E.H. Carr to Jean Bethke Elshtain, Niebuhr has helped shape International Relations. Bringing together intellectual historians and international political theorists, this special issue asks whether Niebuhr’s thought remains relevant to our times? Can he help us think about democracy, power, race, the use of force, and cruelty in a moment when ethnonationalism appears ascendant and democracy in decline
Communism · Cruelty · Democracy · Enlightenment · Liberalism · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Theology · Karl Barth and Christian Theology · Law · Philosophy · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies · War, Ethics, and Justification
Theology and World Politics
The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness
The Emergence of Globalism
The Impossible Possibility of Love’
The cruelty of righteous people’
Re-reading Niebuhr’s The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness
Reinhold Niebuhr
Reinhold Niebuhr and the Christian realist pendulum
A Niebuhrian pacifism for an imperfect world
Meaning and Understanding in the History of Ideas
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,33 |
| Citation span | 2023 - 2023 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |