Reinhold Niebuhr's Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics, published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1932, is a foundational text of twentieth century Christian social ethics and political theology, written by one of the most influential American theologians of his era. Its authority rests on its enormous and well documented influence on the field it helped found, Christian realism, and on Niebuhr's own standing as a leading public theologian of his time. It is a work of theological and political argument from a particular standpoint within Christian ethics, not a neutral social scientific study, and its claims about the moral limits of collective human behavior remain debated within theology and political theory alike.
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Reinhold Niebuhr's Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics, published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1932, the top tier reflecting a foundational text of twentieth century Christian social ethics and political theology by one of the most influential American theologians of his era, enormously and well documented in its influence on the Christian realism school it helped found. It is a work of theological and political argument from a particular standpoint, not a neutral social scientific study, and its claims remain debated within theology and political theory alike. NotesNiebuhr's foundational study in Christian social ethics and political theology.
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AuthorReinhold Niebuhr
PublisherCharles Scribner's Sons
Publication Year1932
Source TypeScholarly work
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