Reinhold Niebuhr's Critique of Pacifism

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ID6399998
AuthorsJames F Childre, James F Childress (corresponding author)
Year1974
Volume36
Issue4
Pages467-491
Publication date1974-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueThe Review of Politics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0034-6705 • E-ISSN: 1748-6858
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0034670500024232
OpenAlexW2066028636
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited15

Most of the recent attempts to demonstrate the poverty of liberalism and political realism have accepted the realist interpretation of violence with few reservations. For example, few political theologians, theologians of hope, and theologians of revolution have reconsidered or modified this component of the realist perspective even as they have tried to dismantle realism. It is now time to splash what Holmes called “cynical acid” on this assumed orthodoxy, especially but not only in Protestantism. The pacifist perspective on war and violence deserves a hearing which this stacked jury of realists and their critics have refused to grant. This refusal results in part from Reinhold Niebuhr's critique of pacifism, widely considered even by pacifists to be trenchant and compelling

Art · Epistemology · Interpretation (philosophy · Orthodoxy · Perspective (graphical · Political science · Politics · Protestantism · Realism · Theology · Law · Philosophy · Political Theology and Sovereignty · Religious studies · Violence, Religion, and Philosophy · War, Ethics, and Justification

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