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Robust Liberalism : H. Richard Niebuhr and the Ethics of American Public Life.
Title:
Robust Liberalism : H. Richard Niebuhr and the Ethics of American Public Life.
Author:
Beach-Verhey, Timothy A.
ISBN:
9781602584693
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (251 pages)
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title Page, Epigraph, Title Page, Copyright, Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part 1. Faith, Reason, and Reality in Human Moral Discourse -- 1. E Pluribus unum: An Augustinian Conception of Faith, Pluralism, and Public Life -- 2. Opening the Circle: Story, Community, and Reality in Moral Reasoning -- 3. The Universal, the Particular, and Public Discourse: Beyond Secular Liberalism and Christian Traditionalism -- Part 2. Theocentric Covenantalism in American Life -- 4. The Christian Churches and American Public Life: A Particular Community Directed through Faith toward the Universal -- 5. Robust Liberalism: American Democracy and the Divine Commonwealth -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
Abstract:
Retrieving Niebuhr's vision of liberal democracy.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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