Reinhold Niebuhr in the 1960s: Christian Realism for a Secular Age

The Civil Rights Movement. The Cuban Missile Crisis. The assassination of a president and a senator both from the same family. Praise turns into protest; hope into disenchantment as democracys new day goes up in flames. The 1960s was an era born in hope and ends in deep conflict.During this era Reinhold Niebuhr once dubbed Americas theologian retires from Union Seminary in New York. Though little has been published about him in this decade much of Niebuhrs life and work are as much shaped and transformed by this era as his work shapes and transforms the discourse in theology ethics and the politics of the age.Ronald Stone a former student-turned-colleague of Niebuhr brilliantly introduces readers to the Niebuhr of the 1960s. In his analysis of Niebuhr he shows a theologian whose work sometimes turns less theological and becomes more secular in his writing with a view toward speaking to the secular world around him. Stones delightful book introduces readers to never-before seen letters between the author and Reinhold and Ursula Niebuhr Stone points the way for theologians ethicists politicians and those otherwise seeking justice and peace into the conflicted world today.