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Top 10 List: 20th Century Thinkers I Wish Could Blog

Started by Drew Tatusko · 11 months ago

I am bored, creatively avoiding real work - again, and I am too tired to give much thought to, well, much at all.  So I thought I would riff on the list thing that has been shooting around over the past month.  Past lists are scholars who could blog (like this one) at Nick&%2 ... Continue reading »

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  • Bryan L

    1 year ago

    Any books you would recommend by Niebuhr? Doesn't/didn't he have a brother?

    I'm a big fan of Stark but I was wondering something. Is he legit? By that I mean does he actually have some real cred. and are his books taken seriously and his scholarship solid, or is he kind of off doing his own thing and nobody's paying attention. I've just wondered whether it'd be wise for me to recommend his books to others but I don't want to do that if he is easily getting proved wrong or dismissed by other scholars.

    Thanks,
    Bryan
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  • Drew Tatusko

    1 year ago

    Bryan,

    H. Richard is the more sociological and Reinhold is more of the pragmatist philosopher of the two. Richard wrote The Social Sources of Denominationalism, Christ and Culture, and The Meaning of Revelation - three of my favorite books that demand a re-read periodically!

    Stark is big time legit. I forget who said it, but he was once referred to as the Max Weber of the 20th century - mostly in part because of his economic theory. He is provocative, for instance, in claims that Europe was never really Christianized in the first place... I would recommend going here to listen to three of his lectures as an introit. http://uc.princeton.edu/main/index.php?searchwo...

    Brilliant and challenging sociologist.
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  • Bryan L

    1 year ago

    Thanks Drew. I was just curious. I really liked the books I've read of his (especially "For the Glory of God") and I recently acquired "The Victory of Reason" and just wanted to make sure before I tell people about his work that he wasn't some cooc.

    I'll have to check out Niebuhr. I was watching that interview with Cone and he was raving about one of the brothers and whichever one it was sounded really interesting.

    Bryan
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