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Such an understanding can be underpinned by 'Christian realism', which encourages responsible engagement with social and political problems from a distinctive perspective. Drawing on the work of Rawls, Galston, Niebuhr, and Bonhoeffer, Lovin argues that the responsibilities of everyday life are a form of politics.
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Christians have always lived in the tension between ultimate reality and immediate responsibility. From the beginning, they have expected God's ultimate victory over all conditions that threaten the meaning of life and deprive human action of purpose. Christians measure choice and action by this hope, and not by the chances of success or failure.
Christian realism is a political theology in the Christian tradition. It is built on three biblical presumptions: the sinfulness of humanity, the freedom of humanity, and the validity and seriousness of the Great Commandment. [1] The key political concepts of Christian realism are balance of power and political responsibility.
22 Αυγ 2009 · From the early 1930s, D.C. Macintosh and Walter Marshall Horton wrote about “religious realism” or “realistic theology” in ways that influenced Niebuhr's call for a church that would produce “religious or Christian realists.”
(1) the distinctive ontological claims of Christianity; (2) their epistemic warrant and intellectual legitimacy; and (3) scrutiny of the primary source of the onto- logical claims of Christianity, namely the historical figure of Jesus of Nazareth.
the Christian realists would have been highly skeptical, as indeed George Kennan, the only one among them still living, was. The Christian realists’ chief argument would have revolved around one of the key concepts dear to their intellectual framework: the balance of power. The realist argument,
