“Niebuhr was, at the end of day, a really deeply committed pluralist. His curiosity about people different from himself made him an early proponent of this idea of America as a nation whose democracy was actually not just a Christian project purely, but a Judeo-Christian project, one that was expansive, that would include [not just Jews but] secularists, that would have elements coming from Catholics, that would include a lot of different people.” This pluralist streak marks a clear contrast between Niebuhr and the figure who is arguably the true “establishment theologian”: the world-renowned
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