عنوان

Conquering Megalomania and Despair:

شماره

LA112937

زبان متن نوشتاري يا گفتاري و مانند آن

انگلیسی

عنوان اصلي

Conquering Megalomania and Despair:

نام عام مواد

[Article]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

a Niebuhrian Response to the Politico-Economic Impasse

نام نخستين پديدآور

Roshnee Ossewaarde-Lowtoo

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Leiden

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Brill

متن يادداشت

The works of Reinhold Niebuhr contain invaluable examples of how Christian resources can be fruitfully exploited to address urgent economic and political issues. The ideas of sin and continuous redemption, which arguably belong to the core of the Christian faith, are creatively translated by Niebuhr, so that they can be included in public debates and interdisciplinary dialogues. In this article, his conception of sin as the perversion of the will-to-live into the will-to-power is endorsed. Its counterforce, it is argued, is human love infused with divine love. Love is, therefore, not a simple possibility, which can be applied to our economic and political problems. Instead, it is the impossible possibility, the ultimate and critical perspective from which prevailing forms of justice and philanthropy are judged. Through the public theology of Niebuhr, the ideal of love becomes a universally valid alternative to the rationalist and naturalist approaches to human morality. The works of Reinhold Niebuhr contain invaluable examples of how Christian resources can be fruitfully exploited to address urgent economic and political issues. The ideas of sin and continuous redemption, which arguably belong to the core of the Christian faith, are creatively translated by Niebuhr, so that they can be included in public debates and interdisciplinary dialogues. In this article, his conception of sin as the perversion of the will-to-live into the will-to-power is endorsed. Its counterforce, it is argued, is human love infused with divine love. Love is, therefore, not a simple possibility, which can be applied to our economic and political problems. Instead, it is the impossible possibility, the ultimate and critical perspective from which prevailing forms of justice and philanthropy are judged. Through the public theology of Niebuhr, the ideal of love becomes a universally valid alternative to the rationalist and naturalist approaches to human morality.

تاريخ نشر

2019

توصيف ظاهري

339-359

عنوان

International Journal of Public Theology

شماره جلد

13/3

شماره استاندارد بين المللي پياييندها

1569-7320

اصطلاح موضوعی

freedom

اصطلاح موضوعی

humility

اصطلاح موضوعی

justice

اصطلاح موضوعی

love

اصطلاح موضوعی

political economy

اصطلاح موضوعی

responsibility

اصطلاح موضوعی

sin

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Roshnee Ossewaarde-Lowtoo

شماره بازیابی

10.1163/15697320-12341582

نام الکترونيکي

فرمت انتشار

p

نوع ماده

[Article]

کد کاربرگه

275578

سطح دسترسي

a

تكميل شده

Y