In theological terms, his achievement (Reinhold Niebuhr) was to perpetuate the old liberalism, adapting it to the civic religion of the 1950s, when anticommunism became a kind of national faith. (This civic faith led to the addition of \u2018under God\u2019 to the pledge of allegiance in 1954, and to the creation of a new national motto, \u2018In God we trust,\u2019 in 1956.) Niebuhr\u2019s very limited critique of liberal Protestantism served as inoculation against real rethinking. \u2013 \u2018Reinventing Liberal Theology\u2019 Theo Hobson<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In theological terms, his achievement (Reinhold Niebuhr) was to perpetuate the old liberalism, adapting it to the civic religion of the 1950s, when anticommunism became a kind of national faith. (This civic faith led to<\/p>\n