Puritan origins -- New England theology -- The liberal movement -- Realism -- Recent trends -- Appendix 1. Aspects of the conception of history in Reinhold Niebuhr -- Appendix 2. Reinhold Niebuhr and the foundations of his ethics -- Appendix 3. The recovery of religious values in American personalism and the philosophy of Edgar Sheffield Brightman
Summary
American Protestantism from the perspective of a renowned Roman Catholic priest, educator, and public intellectual