The works of Reinhold Niebuhr contain invaluable examples of how Christian resources can be fruitfully exploited to address urgent economic and political issues. The ideas of sin and continuous redemption, which arguably belong to the core of the Christian faith, are creatively translated by Niebuhr, so that they can be included in public debates and interdisciplinary dialogues. In this article, his conception of sin as the perversion of the will-to-live into the will-to-power is endorsed. Its counterforce, it is argued, is human love infused with divine love. Love is, therefore, not a simple possibility, which can be applied to our economic and political problems. Instead, it is the impossible possibility, the ultimate and critical perspective from which prevailing forms of justice and philanthropy are judged. Through the public theology of Niebuhr, the ideal of love becomes a universally valid alternative to the rationalist and naturalist approaches to human morality.

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征服狂妄自大和绝望：尼布尔对政治经济僵局的回应

莱因霍尔德·尼布尔 (Reinhold Niebuhr) 的作品包含了如何有效利用基督教资源来解决紧迫的经济和政治问题的宝贵例子。罪恶和持续救赎的思想可以说属于基督教信仰的核心，尼布尔创造性地翻译了这些思想，以便将它们纳入公共辩论和跨学科对话中。在这篇文章中，他将罪视为将生存意志转化为权力意志的观点得到了认可。有人认为，它的反作用力是注入了神圣之爱的人类之爱。因此，爱不是一种简单的可能性，它可以应用于我们的经济和政治问题。相反，它是不可能的可能性，是评判主流正义和慈善形式的终极和批判性视角。