Between Two Rivers

A Memoir of Christian Social Action and Ethics

By (author) Ronald H. Stone

Publication date:

16 July 2015

Length of book:

476 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781442250048

Between Two Rivers chronicles the life of noted scholar of religion, politics, and philosophy, Ronald H. Stone. From his childhood between the East and West banks of the Des Moines River through graduate work in New York between the Hudson and the East Rivers through his scholarly career and retirement in Pittsburgh, between the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers, the book highlights Stone’s focus on Christian social ethics and his prolific writing in the area. The book includes unique insights into some of the renowned scholars Stone worked with closely, including Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich, and it discusses Stone’s scholarship on the relationship between religion and politics.

Introduction
1. Birth
2. Childhood
3. High School
4. Morningside College
5. Mexico City College
6. Junior College
7. Pre-Theological Student
8. Marriage and Church
9. New York City
10. Europe
11. Christian Social Ethics
12. Philosophy
13. Oxford
14. Reinhold Niebuhr
15. Faith and Politics
16. Teaching and Leaving Columbia
17. Associate Professor in Pittsburgh
18. “The King’s Chapel and the King’s Court”
19. Early Days at Pittsburgh Seminary
20. The Death of Reinhold
21. Cambridge University
22. Professor of Social Ethics
23. Beyond Niebuhr
24. Realism and Hope
25. Randy in Nova Scotia
26. Urban Ethics Course
27. Seeking Greek Orthodoxy
28. Response to Liberation Theology
29. Paul Tillich
30. Peacemaking and the Presbyterians
31 East Liberty Presbyterian Church
32. Between Jerusalem and Bethlehem
33. Church and Society
34. Reformed Faith and Politics
35. Rome and Budapest
36. Siberia
37. East Berlin
38. Marriage
39. Resistance to Militarism
40. India
41. John C. Bennett
42. Third Presbyterian Church
43. Post–India Writing
44. Peacemaking
45. Theological Educators for Presbyterian Social Witness
46. Robert Chesnut
47. Father, 1990
48. Latin America
49. Urban Ministry
50. Patricia
51. Randall
52. Spies
53. John Witherspoon
54. Justice and Peacemaking
55. Amazon
56. Mother
57. John Bennett and Nuclear Weapons
58. Politics
59. Cuba
60. Just Peacemaking and Humanitarian Intervention
61. Oxbridge Revisited
62. Church and State
63. Letters from Africa
64. Against the Third Reich
65. The Ultimate Imperative
66. Religion in the New Millennium
67. John Wesley’s Ethics
68. Terrorism and Foreign Policy
69. Semi-Retirement and Divorce
70. Christian Social Ethics as Vocation
71. On Speaking to Hezbollah
72. Prophetic Realism
73. Visit to China
74. Return to Rome
75. Marriage and Family
76. Eber: Pioneer in Iowa
77. Moral Reflections on Foreign Policy in a Religious War
78. Niebuhr and Tillich
79. Concluding Reflections
Bibliography

This volume chronicles the life of noted scholar of religion, politics, and philosophy Ronald H. Stone. From his childhood between the east and west banks of the Des Moines River through graduate work in New York between the Hudson and the East Rivers, through his scholarly career and retirement in Pittsburgh between the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers, the book highlights Stone’s focus on Christian social ethics and his prolific writing. The book includes unique insights into some of the renowned scholars with whom Stone worked closely, including Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich, and it discusses his scholarship on the relationship between religion and politics.