The Idea of Covenant and American Democracy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3501669 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Richard Niebuhr, Richard R Niebuhr (Yale University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1954 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 126-135 |
| Publication date | 1954-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Church History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0009-6407 • E-ISSN: 1755-2613 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/3161485 |
| OpenAlex | W2027778004 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
Every effort to deal with the history of ideas is beset by hazards. Semantic traps are strewn along the way of the inquirer; such words as democracy, liberty, justice, etc., point to different concepts or varying complexes of concepts as they are used in different periods of history and by different men. The unuttered and frequently unacknowledged presuppositions of those who employ them also vary; and since meaning largely depends on context the difficulties of understanding what is meant are increased by the difficulty of ascertaining what is at the back of the minds
Context (archaeology) · Covenant · Democracy · Economic Justice · Epistemology · Meaning (existential) · Point (geometry) · Political science · Politics · Presupposition · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy
Making the Free Market Moral
Equality and Covenant Theology
Puritan Values Today. Remarks on their Topicality in the American Context
A Covenant of the Heart
Breaking the Covenant and Denying the Promise of Voting Rights
American civil religious rhetoric
“A Bad Kind of Magic”
Direct Democracy and the Puritan Theory of Membership
| Citations per year | 0.19 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1984 - 2023 (40) |
| Highly cited | No |