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Authors: H. Richard Niebuhr, James M. Gustafson (Foreword by), James M. Gustafson (Introduction), Robin W. Lovin
ISBN-13: 9780664253264, ISBN-10: 0664253261
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Date Published: August 1993
Edition: New Edition

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Author Biography: H. Richard Niebuhr

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Table of Contents

General Editors' Introduction1
Foreword3
Acknowledgments9
IIntroduction: Theology and Faith11
1The Dual Task of Theology11
2Faith As Confidence and Fidelity16
IIThe Idea of Radical Monotheism24
1The Social God and the Many Gods24
2Radical Monotheism31
IIIRadical Faith - Incarnate and Revealed in History38
1The Incarnation of Radical Faith39
2Revelation and Faith42
3Faith in the Person44
IVRadical Monotheism and Western Religion49
1The Conversion of Reverence and Prayer50
2Radical Faith in "Organized Religion"56
VRadical Faith in Political Community64
1Loyalty and Confidence in National Existence65
2The Struggle of Social with Monotheistic Faith68
3The Democratic Dogma of Equality73
VIRadical Faith and Western Science78
1Our Faith in Science79
2The Faiths of Science83
Supplementary Essays
ITheology in the University93
IIThe Center of Value100
IIIFaith in Gods and in God114
IVScience in Conflict with Morality?127
Index142

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