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Christianity and Power Politics Today

Christian Realism and Contemporary Political Dilemmas

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  • © 2008

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  1. Eric Patterson
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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Christianity and Power Politics Themes and Issues

    • Eric Patterson
    Pages 1-19

  3. The Relevance of Christian Realism to the Twenty-First Century

    • Alberto R. Coll
    Pages 21-52

  4. Reinhold Niebuhr, Christian Realism, and Just War Theory A Critique

    • Keith Pavlischek
    Pages 53-71

  5. Morality and U.S. Foreign Policy*

    • Ernest W. Lefever
    Pages 73-82

  6. War Within Reason A Romantic Epistle to the Christians1

    • Charles A. Jones
    Pages 83-98

  7. Christian Realism and the International Economy1

    • John Lunn
    Pages 99-116

  8. Reinhold Niebuhr’s Christian Realism and the Bush Doctrine

    • Mark R. Amstutz
    Pages 117-135

  9. Christian American Political Realism

    • Peter Augustine Lawler
    Pages 137-152

  10. International Institutions and the Problem of Judgment

    • Daniel Edward Young
    Pages 153-166

  11. Christian Realism and Utopian Multilateralism

    • Eric Patterson
    Pages 167-183

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 185-187
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This volume aims to reconstruct and debate a contemporary Christian realist framework, while also applying such a perspective to the issues of contemporary politics such as the Bush Doctrine, the laws of war, democracy and democratization, U.S. participation in international institutions, and apocalyptic terrorism.

About the authors

ERIC PATTERSON is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Vanguard University, USA. 

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