
David Brooks and E.J. Dionne — Obama's Theologian: Reinhold Niebuhr and the American Present
On Being with Krista Tippett
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The Joy of a Progressive Worldview
Reinhold Neibor is the Michael Jordan of theology, says George Hahn. He was anathema to Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., who would always argue that he was a Schlesinger-style liberal. The joy of a progressive worldview or a liberal worldview is indeed its hopefulness, but it lacks an awareness of human frailty and sin.
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