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The politics of original sin: Reinhold Niebuhr's Christian Realism and its Cold War realist reception

机译：原罪的政治：莱因霍尔德·尼布尔的基督教现实主义及其对冷战现实主义者的接受

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Reinhold Niebuhr is among the most politically and theologically influential---and most misunderstood---American thinkers of the twentieth century. This misunderstanding is the product of a tendency among Niebuhr's admirers and critics alike to overlook the elaborate interplay of the theology and politics in Niebuhr's thought. I argue that Niebuhr understood himself as a preacher to religion's "cultured despisers," and that Niebuhr construed this role in fundamentally theological terms. As a consequence, there is a dynamic theology underlying his political engagement with the broader culture.;Chief among the "cultured despisers" drawn to Niebuhr's thought were the political realists who dominated early Cold War politics. They were particularly compelled by the political insights of Niebuhr's Christian Realism, and proceeded to incorporate these insights into own realist visions. I argue that in the act of appropriating Niebuhr the political realists unwittingly absorbed much of his theology; and in neglecting to recognize the theological underpinnings to Niebuhr's political insights, they ended up misconstruing Niebuhr in important ways. I seek to demonstrate that fully appreciating Niebuhr's contributions to political discourse requires an awareness of how theology suffuses even his most overtly political writings.;This project consists of two parts. Part One examines the theological formation of the concept at the heart of Niebuhr's Christian Realism: namely, the doctrine of original sin. From the outset, Niebuhr maintained that elaborating the full political implications of original sin required a theological structure. Through sustained conversations with theological contemporaries Karl Barth, Paul Tillich, Emil Brunner, and his brother H. Richard Niebuhr, Reinhold elaborated the distinctive theological anthropology, understanding of grace and redemption, and account of the dynamic interplay between faith and history underlying his exploration of original sin and its political implications. Niebuhr's Christian Realism, I suggest, is inextricably theological.;Part Two analyses Niebuhr's reception among three of the most prominent midcentury political realists: Hans Morgenthau, George Kennan, and Arthur Schlesinger. Although they were among Niebuhr's most astute interpreters, all three figures wrongly presumed that they could extricate the political elements of Niebuhr's thinking on original sin from the theological structure in which this thinking was embedded, and import only these political elements into their own realist visions. Their uses of the concept of original sin indicate that they both adopt far more of Niebuhr's theology than they ever intended to, and misconstrue some of his most profound insights. I close by considering what a theologically grounded Christian Realism has to offer political discourse.
机译：莱因霍尔德·尼布尔（Reinhold Niebuhr）是二十世纪美国政治和神学上影响力最大，而且最容易被误解的思想家之一。这种误解是尼布尔的仰慕者和批评家们趋向于忽视尼布尔的思想中神学与政治的复杂相互作用的产物。我认为尼伯将自己理解为宗教“文化鄙视者”的传教士，而尼伯则从根本上从神学角度解释了这一角色。结果，在他与更广泛的文化进行政治接触时，就有了一种动态的神学。；尼布尔所吸引的“有文化的鄙视者”中，首屈一指的是冷战初期政治的政治现实主义者。尼布尔的基督教现实主义对政治的见解尤其使他们受迫，并着手将这些见解纳入自己的现实主义视野。我认为，在挪用尼布尔的行动中，政治现实主义者无意间吸收了他的大部分神学；他们由于忽视尼伯的政治见解的神学基础，最终以重要的方式误解了尼布尔。我试图证明，要充分欣赏尼布尔对政治话语的贡献，就需要认识到神学是如何使他的最公开的政治著作得到满足的。这个项目包括两个部分。在第一部分中，考察了涅布尔基督教现实主义核心思想的神学形成：即原罪学说。从一开始，尼布尔就坚持认为，要详细阐述原罪的全部政治含义，就需要一个神学结构。通过与神学同时代人卡尔·巴特，保罗·提利奇，埃米尔·布鲁纳和他的兄弟H·理查德·尼布尔的持续对话，莱因霍尔德阐述了独特的神学人类学，对恩典和救赎的理解，以及对信仰和历史之间动态相互作用的解释，这是他探索人类的基础原罪及其政治含义。我认为，尼布尔的基督教现实主义是神学上的。第二部分分析尼布尔对本世纪中叶最杰出的三个政治现实主义者的接受：汉斯·摩根索（Hans Morgenthau），乔治·肯南（George Kennan）和亚瑟·施莱辛格（Arthur Schlesinger）。尽管他们是尼布尔最精明的解释者之一，但所有这三个数字都错误地假定他们可以从内伯尔关于原始罪恶的思想的政治学成分中解脱出来，而只将这些政治成分导入他们自己的现实主义视野中。他们对原始罪恶概念的使用表明，他们俩都比尼伯尔更多地采用了尼伯尔的神学，并且误解了尼伯尔的一些最深刻的见解。最后，我考虑了基于神学的基督教现实主义必须提供的政治话语。

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    Sabella, Jeremy Luis.;

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    Boston College.;

  • 授予单位 Boston College.;
  • 学科 Theology.;Religious history.;Political science.
  • 学位 Ph.D.
  • 年度 2013
  • 页码 276 p.
  • 总页数 276
  • 原文格式 PDF
  • 正文语种 eng
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