TY - BOOK AU - Niebuhr,Reinhold AU - Rasmussen,Larry L. TI - Reinhold Niebuhr: theologian of public life T2 - The Making of modern theology. Selected writings AV - BR 85 N625.1988 PY - 1988/// CY - London, San Francisco, CA PB - Collins, Harper & Row KW - Theology KW - Teología KW - Social ethics KW - Ética social N1 - Incluye referencias bibliográficas e índice; Introduction -- A public theologian -- A biographical sketch -- A few facets of Niebbuhr's thought -- 1. The disorder of a technical civilization -- 2. Morality and power -- Moral man and immoral society: introduction -- Social sin compounded -- The preservation of moral values in politics -- The conflict between individual and social morality -- 3. Preachers and prophets -- The tower of Babel -- Christianity and tragedy -- Transvaluation of values -- The things that are and the things that are not -- The fulfilment of life -- 4. Augustine and Christian realism -- Augustine's political realism: introduction -- The relevance of Christan realism -- Idealism realism and Christian responsibility -- The insufficiency of politics -- 5. Grace and sin -- The occasion and forms of sin -- Wisdom, grace and power -- Grace and possibilities --6. Justice and love -- The struggle for justice -- Love, law and relatiity -- 7. Nature and destiny -- Fulfillments in history and the fulfillment of history -- The church and the end of history -- 8. Theological ideas, political and social theory -- Pacifism-- Democracy -- Utopianism -- 9. Coherence, incoherence, and Christian faith -- 10. The King's chapel and the king's court -- 11. Faith for a hazardous future -- 12. Epilogue: On the theological virtues ER -