R. Drew Smith

Reinhold Niebuhr against Racism

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“Ronald Stone provides helpful analysis here of twentieth-century ethicist Reinhold Niebuhr’s responsiveness to American racial problems. By filling in gaps in Niebuhr’s record on racial concerns and by drawing attention to sometimes underemphasized aspects of his racial commentary and activism, this book broadens the basis for assessing Niebuhr’s contributions to one hundred years of American racial thought and practice.”

Reinhold Niebuhr in the 1960s

History & Biography

“This is a careful and insightful reading of Reinhold Niebuhr’s public thought and influence by a scholar who was his student, friend, and, subsequently, among his leading scholarly interpreters. Stone draws much-needed attention here to the latter phrases of Niebuhr’s public scholarship from the turbulent 1960s and to Niebuhr’s analytic relevance for that decade and for our twenty-first-century social landscapes.”

Selfless Revolutionaries

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“This powerful book analyzes enduring legacies of racial colonization within South Africa and beyond, and also details a new generation of student mobilization against those legacies. Pointing especially to Steve Biko’s defiant black consciousness thrust, Dr. Boesak tracks the continuing global influence of several key twentieth-century racial justice prophets, providing strategic points of connection across generations and continents. This is essential reading at this current moment of intensified racial ferment.”

The Political Crisis and Christian Ethics

Ethics, Culture & Social Issues

“At a time when Christian participation in politics is guided more by religious enthusiasms than by theological analysis, this timely book provides both caution and corrective. Ronald Stone importantly centers public life as an object of theological reflection while identifying essential theological frameworks for examining some of today’s most urgent public arena concerns.”