Christian Realism

Reinhold Niebuhr was an American ethicist, commentator, and a theologian on public affairs and politics. He was also a professor at the Union Theological Seminary for at least thirty years. Also, he received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1964 for being one of America’s main public scholars or intellectuals, in the twentieth century, for many decades. In the 1920s, Niebuhr started off as a minister with working class compassion and sharing and connecting with many other ministers who have a dedication towards pacifism. Furthermore, in the 1930s, Niebuhr’s thinking on the neo-orthodox realist theology had evolved as he developed the philosophical point of view called the Christian realism. After the year 1945, the realism that Niebuhr had created strengthened and it led him to support the attempts and efforts that the Americans made in order to confront the Soviet communism around the world. He was one of the most prominent philosophers of the 1940s and the 1950s in public affairs because he was such a powerful spokesman. Niebuhr clashed and fought with religious liberals over what he called their “unsophisticated” views of the contradictions of human nature and the optimism or confidence of the Social Gospel, an early twentieth century Protestant movement, and fought with the religious reactionaries or conservatives over what he viewed as…

The Wasp and the Echo: The Oneness with Everything In A Passage to India, E. M. Foster explores various conflicts between the Indian and the English in a dramatic setting. Foster is a master of realism; however, what walks side by side with the realistic plots like the trial and the friendship is the mysticism, which reflects Foster’s extraordinary ability to grasp the essence of the Oriental spirit. Realistic descriptions in many colonial literary works sometimes cannot suffice to present the…

The world is not black and white. There is rarely an absolute and definitive reason why a country ventures onto the lands of an opposing state. There are a number of factors that can come out to play when analyzing a countries imperialist nature. In the article “Explaining Imperialism: The State of the Art as reflected in Three Theories”, Rajan Menon and John R. Oneal interpret the discourse behind imperialism and formulate three theories; the realist theory, the socialist theory of capitalism…

Discovery can encompass the many experiences of discovering something for the first time or rediscovering something that has been lost, forgotten or concealed. These discoveries can change an individual’s perspective of human nature and the wider world. The theme of discovery is projected throughout the play, ‘The Tempest’ (1610), by William Shakespeare and the novel, ‘The Perks of being a Wallflower’ (1999), by Stephen Chbosky. The Tempest, written in the Jacobean era and reflecting aspects and…

Magical realism has many elements. One of the most common ones are the elements of the magical and the mundane interwoven seamlessly, the story is set in an otherwise ordinary world with familiar historical and/or cultural realities, and objects and setting within the story taking lives of their own in a way that is ordinary to the characters. These characteristics can be found in the following stories. Magical realism is the blend between reality and the extraordinary. Both texts, “A Very Old…

Realism is a broad paradigm in which it is a view of international politics that stresses its competitive and conflictual side. Realists often trace their intellectual roots to Thucydides classic account of Peloponnesian war in the fifth century B.C. At their core realists’ theories have a pragmatic approach to international relations describing the world as it is not as it ought to be. Realist believe that power is the currency of international politics. Great powers, the main actors in the…

hockey culture, especially in Quebec. Some Canadian films also stick to their historical traditions to be considered specifically Canadian. This would mean they feature either of the early Canadian traditions: documentary realism or the avant-garde/experimentalist. Inclusion of these traditions generally leads to a film being seen as more Canadian. Because of the reasons above, I believe that Canadian films have historically stuck to being classified as “not American” and actively aim to…

Realism and Liberalism, two political schools of thought contend two radically different behaviours towards a state's neighbors. Most of the behaviours acted upon, are best defined by liberalist and realist ideological principles. But history has shown that liberalist and realist nation states behaviour differently to other states. How can an anarchic international society allow such behaviour? According to Alexander Wendt, argues that anarchy is a political concept that states manipulates to…

worked for (high social position, leadership over the Blue Veins and his upcoming nuptials to Mrs. Dixon). Initially puzzled; Mr. Ryder used the party he threw for Mr. Dixon to ease his conscious about Lisa Jane. He indirectly relayed her story before eventually revealing the truth behind his connection to Lisa Jane. The fact that Mr. Ryder told the truth, humanized him; because he seemed to only be motivated by societal progression at first. The reason this reading proved to be one of the best…

Everything in this world is tend to change. Beginning with the climate, technologies, population and ending with the economy, politics and international relations. China is not an exception in those changes. Over the last couple of years China has developed its economy to very significant level, under these circumstances it is possible that China could become a world’s superpower. This essay will consist of three parts, each part will look at different ways of analyzing the rise of China,…