Christianity and Power Politics Today: Christian Realism and Contemporary Political Dilemmas

Eric Patterson

2008

Eric Patterson's most recent book, Christianity and Power Politics Today: Christian Realism and Contemporary Political Dilemmas, details the influence of Christianity in politics through the lens of Church history. Patterson is also the author of Just War Thinking: Morality and Pragmatism in the Struggle Against Contemporary Threats (Lexington Books, 2007).

Table of Contents
1. Christianity and Power Politics: Themes and Issues
       Eric Patterson, Georgetown University
2. The Relevance of Christian Realism to the Twenty-First Century
       Alberto R. Coll, DePaul University
3. Reinhold Niebuhr, Christian Realism, and Just War Theory: A Critique
       Keith Pavlischeck, Ethics and Public Policy Center
4. Morality and U.S. Foreign Policy
       Ernest W. Lefever, Ethics and Public Policy Center
5. War Within Reason: A Romantic Epistle to the Christians
       Charles A. Jones, Cambridge University
6. Christian Realism and the International Economy
       John Lunn, Hope College
7. Reinhold Niebuhr's Christian Realism and the Bush Doctrine
       Mark R. Amstutz, Wheaton College
8. Christian American Political Realism
       Peter Augustine Lawler, Berry College
9. International Institutions and the Problem of Judgment
       Daniel Edward Young, Northwestern College
10. Christian Realism and Utopian Multilateralism
       Eric Patterson, Georgetown University

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