Moral Man and Immoral Society (Continuum Impacts) - Softcover

Niebuhr, Reinhold

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0826477143 ISBN 13: 9780826477149

Publisher: Continuum, 2005

Synopsis

Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) was one of America's foremost twentieth-century religious thinkers and social critics. As pastor of Bethel Evangelical Church in Detroit, he became deeply interested in social problems. He was Professor of Applied Christianity at Union Theological Seminary, remaining there until his retirement. Ultimately, he abandoned his liberal Protestant hopes for the church's moral rule of society and became a Socialist activist.

Moral Man and Immoral Society is Niebuhr's eloquent argument for the church's involvement in social reforms as well as a platform for his beliefs that men are sinners, that society is ruled by self-interest, and that history is characterized by irony, not progress.

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Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) was one of America's foremost twentieth-century religious thinkers and social critics. As pastor of Bethel Evangelical Church in Detroit, he became deeply interested in social problems. He was Professor of Applied Christianity at Union Theological Seminary, remaining there until his retirement. Ultimately, he abandoned his liberal Protestant hopes for the church's moral rule of society and became a Socialist activist.

Edition details

• Publisher: Continuum
• Publication date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0826477143
• ISBN 13: 9780826477149
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208