Christian Realism and Liberation Theology
Practical Theologies in Creative Conflict
Imprint: Wipf and Stock
Christian Realism and Liberation Theology provides the best interpretation and critique we have of liberation theology. Equally important, however, is McCann's interpretation of Reinhold Niebuhr. For it is McCann's contention that Niebuhr is best appreciated as attempting to provide a form of spirituality sufficient to sustain the frustrations of political struggle. By bringing Niebuhr and liberation theology into creative contrast McCann not only illuminates the contributions and shortcomings of each but helps us better understand the issues confronting the development of an adequate Christian social ethic. This is a book that has needed writing for some time. We are in McCann's debt."
-- Stanley Hauerwas,
Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics
Divinity School, Duke University
Dennis P. McCann, Ph.D, is the Wallace M. Alston Professor of Bible and Religion at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta/Decatur, Georgia, and Executive Director of the Society of Christian Ethics. Previously, Dr. McCann served as Professor of Religious Studies for eighteen years at DePaul University in Chicago. Additional publications by Dr. McCann include Christian Realism and Liberation Theology, New Experiment in Democracy: The Challenge for American Catholicism and co-authored Polity and Praxis: A Program for American Practical Theology.
"Christian Realism and Liberation Theology provides the best interpretation and critique we have of liberation theology. Equally important, however, is McCann's interpretation of Reinhold Niebuhr. For it is McCann's contention that Niebuhr is best appreciated as attempting to provide a form of spirituality sufficient to sustain the frustrations of political struggle. By bringing Niebuhr and liberation theology into creative contrast McCann not only illuminates the contributions and shortcomings of each but helps us better understand the issues confronting the development of an adequate Christian social ethic. This is a book that has needed writing for some time. We are in McCann's debt."
-- Stanley Hauerwas,
Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics
Divinity School, Duke University