Introduction by Langdon Gilkey Now with a new introduction by Langdon Gilkey, Moral Man and Immoral Society was Reinhold Niebuhr's important study in ethics and politics. Forthright and realistic, it discussed the inevitability of social conflict, the brutal behavior of human collectives of every sort, the inability of rationalists and social scientists to even imagine the realities of collective power, and, ultimately, how individual morality can overcome social immorality. "Every thinking Christian must squarely face the major thesis of this book, or confess the impotence of his faith for a day when the dawn is lowering red." --The Christian Century Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) was an ethicist, theologian, and political philosopher who taught at Union Theological Seminary in New York from 1928 to 1960. Langdon Gilkey is Professor of Theology Emeritus at the University of Chicago Divinity School.

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