The Theological Vision of Reinhold Niebuhr's "The Irony of American History"

Reinhold Niebuhr remains a reference point in an ongoing national conversation about America's role in the world. Commentators with divergent political and religious views draw upon his 1951 work, The Irony of American History. In this book Scott R. Erwin brings an appreciation of Niebuhr's theological vision to aid understanding of Irony.