The Irony of Barack Obama: Barack Obama, Reinhold Niebuhr and the Problem of Christian Statecraft
Authors R. Ward Holder and Peter B. Josephson from Saint Anselm College combine their expertise in Christian theology and politics in this thought-provoking, though necessarily incomplete, analysis of the Barack Obama presidency as it relates to Reinhold Niebuhr (d. 1971). Drawing from the burgeonin...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2014
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2014, Volume: 56, Issue: 1, Pages: 182-184 |
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| Summary: | Authors R. Ward Holder and Peter B. Josephson from Saint Anselm College combine their expertise in Christian theology and politics in this thought-provoking, though necessarily incomplete, analysis of the Barack Obama presidency as it relates to Reinhold Niebuhr (d. 1971). Drawing from the burgeoning Niebuhr literature, the book offers illuminating perspectives on the forty-fourth U.S. president. “Somewhere between evangelical and fundamentalist religious fervor on the right and liberal disregard for religion on the left Obama found in Niebuhr an argument for action that rejects triumphalism and denies perfectionism” (p. 2). |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/cst118 |