Joseph Hartman Lecture: “Reinhold Niebuhr for Today”

By Joseph Hartman on October 23, 2017

The following lecture was recorded during Providence’s 2017 Christianity and National Security Conference.

Joseph Hartman, who wrote his dissertation on Reinhold Niebuhr, talks about Niebuhr’s influence as a public intellectual and outlines his views of anthropology, political theory, and the practicalities of politics. He also discusses what Niebuhr’s significance is for us today.

Christianity and National Security Conference 2017 | Reinhold Niebuhr

Joseph Hartman is a scholar, Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies, and Adjunct Lecturer at Georgetown University. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Theory from Georgetown and a J.D. in Law from the University of Chicago.