Does Civilization Need Religion?
Reinhold Niebuhr
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Does Civilization Need Religion? sets out from the fact that religion's inability to make its ethical and social resources available for the solution of the moral problems of modern civilization is one, and the neglected one, of the two chief causes responsible for its debilitated condition. It is convinced that if Christian idealists are to make religion socially effective they will be forced to detach themselves from the dominant secular desires of the nations as well as from the greed of economic groups. It aims to show that though neither the orthodox nor the modern wing of the Christian Church seems capable of initiating a genuine revival which will evolve a morality capable of challenging and maintaining itself against the dominant desires of modern civilization's needs, there are resources in the Christian religion which make it the inevitable basis of any spiritual regeneration of Western civilization. Does Civilization Need Religion? maintains that the task of redeeming Western society rests in a peculiar sense upon Christianity, which has reduced the eternal conflict between self-assertion and self-denial to the paradox of self-assertion through self-denial and made the Cross the symbol of life's highest achievement. It is persuaded that the idea of a potent but yet suffering divine ideal which is defeated by the world but gains its victory in the defeat must continue to remain basic in any morally creative worldview. Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971), ethicist, theologian, and political philosopher, taught at Union Theological Seminary in New York City from 1928 to 1960. Prior to that, he was minister of Detroit's Bethel Evangelical Church for thirteen years. Among his many books are Faith and History, Pious and Secular America, Beyond Tragedy, Moral Man and Immoral Society, and The Irony of American History.
Product Details
Price
$26.00
$24.18
Publisher
Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publish Date
August 01, 2010
Pages
254
Dimensions
5.1 X 7.9 X 0.6 inches | 0.6 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9781608998005
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About the Author
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971), ethicist, theologian, and political philosopher, taught at Union Theological Seminary in New York City from 1928 to 1960. Prior to that, he was minister of Detroit's Bethel Evangelical Church for thirteen years. Among his many books are Faith and History, Pious and Secular America, Beyond Tragedy, Moral Man and Immoral Society, and The Irony of American History.