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This "reinterpretation" of the Statement of Faith adopted by the
United Church of Christ in 1959 includes a description of the
process that led to the original interpretation, and boldly
indicates where the statement expresses firm convictions and where
it encourages continuing discussions.
The Christian Realists investigates the contributions to practical
and theoretical politics by a variety of mid-twentieth century
thinkers such as Reinhold Niebuhr, John Foster Dulles, and Herbert
Butterfield. In a period of international conflict and uncertainty
caused by the rise of Nazism and Communism and the advent of
nuclear weapons, these individuals argued for a "Christian" and a
"realistic" approach to social and political problems. It is
significant that for about a quarter century these men were
listened to on Capitol Hill, in Westminster, on university
campuses, in newspapers, as well as throughout the Western
religious establishment. This volume provides chapters devoted to
the thought of specific Christian realists: Niebuhr, Dulles, Martin
Wight, John C. Bennett, and others. The book also includes a
chapter on Niebuhr's influence on his secular disciples such as
Hans Morgenthau and Arthur Schlesinger Jr. and a chapter on the
Catholic social thinker John Courtney Murray.
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