Reinhold Niebuhr
Richard Wightman Fox • 1985 • Cornell University Press
- Author
- Richard Wightman Fox
- First published
- 1985
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press
- Genres
- Biography
- ISBN
- 9780394516592
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Published in 1985, this biography was written by historian Richard Wightman Fox to provide a definitive account of the life and thought of Reinhold Niebuhr, the influential American Protestant theologian. Niebuhr had passed away in 1971, and Fox sought to contextualize his complex transition from rural pastor to a prominent public intellectual who shaped mid-twentieth-century American political realism.
Fox's work is widely considered a scholarly benchmark, praised for its balanced examination of Niebuhr’s involvement in labor politics, his critique of utopianism, and his profound impact on the Cold War era's intellectual landscape. By placing Niebuhr within the framework of American cultural history, the book illustrates how his pragmatic Christian ethics influenced both liberal and conservative political thinkers for decades.
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