Showing posts with label Reinhold Niebuhr. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Reinhold Niebuhr. Show all posts
Saturday, August 27, 2016

Where Have All the Christian Intellectuals Gone? (Does Anyone Remember John Paul's and Ratzinger's Purge of Catholic Theologians?)

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It's a thing now among journalists and religion commentators to ask what has happened to the public intellectuals of the churches...
Saturday, September 15, 2012

More on Remembering: Metz and the Suffering of Ancestors

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To complement what I posted earlier today in remembrance of my mother's death, another passage from Elizabeth Johnson's Searc...
Tuesday, February 14, 2012

David Brooks Misses the Point Again: What Has Gone Wrong with American Society . . . .

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Speaking of the inability of centrist powerbrokers to see and learn (I'm building on what I just published about the teachable mome...
Friday, August 19, 2011

David Bromwich on Obama's Pragmatism: Maxims That Ratify the Existing Order--Any Order

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I'd like to return briefly this morning to the article by David Bromwich to which I linked yesterday, about how the Obama presidency ...
Thursday, January 27, 2011

Ira Chernus on Obama's Semi-Niebuhrianism: Shadows and Suffering, Heading Nowhere

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Ira Chernus's critique of the "semi-Niebuhrianism of Mr. Obama (and of almost all media pundits who sling Niebuhr's name aro...
Sunday, January 16, 2011

David Brooks on the Atrophy of Theology Today: A Matter of Perspective

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I'm not surprised to see a number of leading figures of the American Catholic intellectual center celebrating David Brooks' recent ...
Friday, January 14, 2011

David Brooks on Niebuhrian Need for Renewed Sense of Sin: Where Does Incivility Arise in American Society?

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Moderate conservatives like David Brooks are eager to bring civility back to American society--to retie the now-frayed ties that bind us....
Wednesday, September 1, 2010

More Beck vs. King: Andrew Murphy on the Difference

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More fine analysis of the absurdity of Mr. Beck's claim to be a new Martin Luther King.  This piece by Andrew Murphy is at Religion D...
Monday, February 1, 2010

Paul Raushenbush to the President: Mr. Obama, Find Your Inner Niebuhr

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  A month ago, I blogged about Niebuhrian influences on President Obama’s political philosophy.  I noted that it has long been fashionable...
Monday, January 11, 2010

More on the Legacy of Reinhold Niebuhr and American Politics

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As a follow-up to my recent posting about theologian Reinhold Niebuhr and President Obama, I’d like to draw readers’ attention to a valuabl...
Wednesday, January 6, 2010

News Roundup: Recent Articles of Significance to Religion-Culture Debates

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This is one of those posts in which I try to gather links to articles and blog postings that have impressed me in recent days. Several of t...
Saturday, January 2, 2010

President Obama and the Legacy of Reinhold Niebuhr: Faithful Reflection or Betrayal?

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I blogged on new year’s day about the continued need to engage religious ideas if we want to understand and make informed choices about the...