Reinhold Niebuhr (18921971) whom President Barack Obama famously named as his favorite philosopher in a 2007 interview was arguably the most influential American theologian of the twentieth century. Gabriel Fackres Promise of Reinhold Niebuhr has long provided a compact introduction to Niehbuhrs life and thought.
With Niebuhrs enduring legacy again rising to prominence in political and religious circles, Fackre has reworked his standard account of this iconic visionary realist for a new generation. In this revised and updated third edition, Fackre crystallizes key themes in Niebuhrs writings, addresses and debunks Tall Tales that have sprung up around Niebuhrs legacy, and applies Niebuhrs thinking to twenty-first-century theological and cultural issues.