1st Edition
Paradoxical Virtue Reinhold Niebuhr and the Virtue Tradition
Preface
Introduction
Kevin Carnahan
1 Niebuhr on the Ironies of Virtue and the Virtue of Irony
Charles Mathewes
2 Hope, Virtue, and Politics in Reinhold Niebuhr’s Works
Robin Lovin
3 Virtue and the Fragile Christian Realist
Martha ter Kuile
4 Reinhold Niebuhr: Faith in and Beyond History
Scott Paeth
5 Deceptive Honesty: Myth and Virtue in Reinhold Niebuhr
Dan Malotky
6 The Paradoxes of Virtue: Agape in the Work of Reinhold Niebuhr
Mark Douglas
7 Reinhold Niebuhr and the Virtue of Mutuality
Daniel Morris
8 The Humble Place of Humility in Reinhold Niebuhr’s Ethics
Jodie Lyon
9 Choosing Sorrow: Niebuhr, Contrition, and White Catastrophe
Christopher Dowdy
10 Reinhold Niebuhr, Virtue, and Political Society: A Key To the Christian Character of Prophetic Realism
Ward Holder
11 A Niebuhrian Virtue of Justice
Kevin Carnahan
12 Reinhold Niebuhr and Phronesis
David True and Thomas James
13 Reinhold Niebuhr and the Aesthetics of Political Leadership
Thomas James
14 The Virtues of the Social Critic
Jeremy Sabella
Contributors
Biography
Kevin Carnahan is Professor of Philosophy and Religion at the Central Methodist University, USA. He is Co-editor of the Journal of the Society of Christian Ethics; former President of the Niebuhr Society; author of Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Ramsey (2010), From Presumption to Prudence in Just-War Rationality (2017), several scholarly articles, and many popular and editorial pieces.
David True is Associate Professor of Religion at Wilson College, USA. He is Co-editor of Political Theology and is author of articles and book chapters on fundamentalism, just war theory, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Martin Luther King, Jr. He has also written for venues such as Religion Dispatches, the Christian Science Monitor, Politico, and Political Theology Today. In addition, he is the Director of Wilson College’s Orr Forum on Religion and The Wilson College Common Hour.
