Why Niebuhr Now?

by John Patrick Diggins

Book Overview

Barack Obama has called him "one of my favorite philosophers." John McCain wrote that he is "a paragon of clarity about the costs of a good war." Andrew Sullivan has said, "We need Niebuhr now more than ever." For a theologian who died in 1971, Reinhold Niebuhr is maintaining a remarkably high profile in the twenty-first century.

In Why Niebuhr Now? acclaimed historian John Patrick Diggins tackles the complicated question of why,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022600452X
• ISBN13: 9780226004525
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"