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Pragmatism, Power, and Politics:

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Pragmatism, Power, and Politics:

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A Pentecostal Conversation with President Obamas Favorite Theologian, Reinhold Niebuhr

Tony Lee Richie

Leiden

Brill

In conversation with Reinhold Niebuhr, this essay explores ecumenical, economical, and political theology and practice against a contextual backdrop of recent developments in Cuba relative to the United States with specific implications for North American Pentecostal Christians. First, it argues that Niebuhr's Christian realism and Pentecostalism's pragmatic orientation may be allies in addressing economic and political issues; and second, his perspective on the spiritual nature and proper use of power may inform Pentecostalism's traditional approach to power so as to expand its parameters for more precise political and social implementation. Further, the contemporary relevance of this discussion is framed and informed by President Barack Obama's vaunted appropriation of Niebuhr in a creative integrative practice of faith and politics. In conversation with Reinhold Niebuhr, this essay explores ecumenical, economical, and political theology and practice against a contextual backdrop of recent developments in Cuba relative to the United States with specific implications for North American Pentecostal Christians. First, it argues that Niebuhr's Christian realism and Pentecostalism's pragmatic orientation may be allies in addressing economic and political issues; and second, his perspective on the spiritual nature and proper use of power may inform Pentecostalism's traditional approach to power so as to expand its parameters for more precise political and social implementation. Further, the contemporary relevance of this discussion is framed and informed by President Barack Obama's vaunted appropriation of Niebuhr in a creative integrative practice of faith and politics.

2010

241-260

Pneuma

32/2

1570-0747

AMERICAN CHRISTIANITY

BARACK OBAMA

CHRISTIAN REALISM

CUBA

DEMOCRACY

ECUMENISM/ECUMENICAL

GLOBAL ECONOMIC CRISIS

KINGDOM OF GOD

ORDINATE/INORDINATE POWER

PENTECOSTAL PRAGMATISM

PNEUMATIC POLITICS

POLITICAL THEOLOGY

PRODUCT OF SPIRIT

PROGRESSIVE PENTECOSTALISM

REINHOLD NIEBUHR

SOCIAL ETHICS

THEOLOGY OF POWER

Tony Lee Richie

10.1163/157007410X509137

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