Hope, cynicism, and complicity: worldly resistance in Reinhold Niebuhr's criticism of Karl Barth
This paper seeks to investigate the relationship between hope, cynicism, and despair in the stakes of a well-known dispute between Karl Barth and Reinhold Niebuhr. Niebuhr accuses Barth, and those who adopt Barth's central doctrinal and political positions, of quietism: in the name of religious...
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Format: | Electronic/Print Article |
Language: | English |
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Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group
[2016]
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Political theology
Year: 2016, Volume: 17, Issue: 2, Pages: 182-198 |
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Barth, Karl 1886-1968
/ Niebuhr, Reinhold 1892-1971
/ Hope
/ Cynicism
/ Despair
/ Social reform
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IxTheo Classification: | KDD Protestant Church NCC Social ethics NCD Political ethics |
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