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Article: Prophetic Realism: Beyond Militarism and Pacifism in an Age of Terror.(Book review)
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- Journal of Church and State
- Article date:
- January 1, 2008
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Prophetic Realism: Beyond Militarism and Pacifism in an Age of Terror. By Ronald H. Stone. New York: T & T Clark, 2005. 192 pp. $27.95.
The great strength of this book is the clarity author Ronald Stone brings to the meaning, history, and theological importance of the tradition of prophetic realism. His analysis focuses on the work of Reinhold Niebuhr, Hans Morgenthau, and Paul Tillich as it applies to the questions of war and peace, international relations, statecraft, and terrorism. He successfully demonstrates that at its best there is a moral dimension to politics and that it is the theologian's task to join political power to a moral purpose. In so doing, ...