The Constant Dialogue: Reinhold Niebuhr and American Intellectual Culture

by Martin Halliwell

Book Overview

In this important new work, Martin Halliwell focuses on the tensions between the two dimensions of Reinhold Niebuhr's thought: his political role as a radical social critic and the conservative drift of his religious beliefs. Halliwell concentrates particularly on his attempts to justify the role of the religious critic in a secular age by tracing his thought back to European and American traditions of religious individualism. In order to better examine...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742508412
• ISBN13: 9780742508415
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 384 Pages