Christian Realism and the Revival of Public Theology by Charl... - 9781032884936

Christian Realism and the Revival of Public TheologyAuthor(s): Charles McDaniel\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781032884936, 978-1032884936\nSynopsis\nChristian Realism and the Revival of Public Theology analyzes Reinhold Niebuhrs The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness 80 years after publication and argues that it provides pertinent lessons for the contemporary era. This book considers how Niebuhrs bookas well as his other workremains relevant and retains insights for an America which seems increasingly to be losing its moral bearings and political courage. The author examines the roots of political polarization in Niebuhrs categories of the children of light and the children of darkness, finding it a more useful binary than liberalism vs. conservatism for understanding Americas culture wars and the growing sense that its political institutions are in terminal decay. This book seeks to show how public .