[Rezension von: Wilsey, John D., God's cold warrior]
John D. Wilsey’s religious biography of John Foster Dulles is a valuable contribution to the William B. Eerdmans series, the Library of Religious Biography. God’s Cold Warrior focuses primarily on Dulles’s faith, his religious commitments, and the way in which religion informed the worldview of a ma...
| Published in: | A journal of church and state |
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2022
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A journal of church and state
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| Review of: | God's cold warrior (Grand Rapids, Michigan : William. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2021) (Kirby, Dianne)
God's Cold Warrior (Grand Rapids, Michigan : William. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2021) (Kirby, Dianne) |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Dulles, John Foster 1888-1959
/ Religion
/ Politics
/ USA
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| RelBib Classification: | CA Christianity KBQ North America ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
Book review
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| Summary: | John D. Wilsey’s religious biography of John Foster Dulles is a valuable contribution to the William B. Eerdmans series, the Library of Religious Biography. God’s Cold Warrior focuses primarily on Dulles’s faith, his religious commitments, and the way in which religion informed the worldview of a man who played a significant diplomatic role during the critical origins of, and the nature subsequently assumed by, the Cold War. Wilsey’s introduction emphasizes that Dulles’s humanity, animated by his religion, is the book’s subject, offering a window not only into his soul, but a means of grasping one’s own humanity. Wilsey clearly believes that Dulles has been judged too harshly by history, contending that President Dwight Eisenhower’s former Secretary of State has been scapegoated for U.S. foreign policy failures from the 1950s to the 1970s. In offering a new perspective of the lawyer cum churchman cum diplomat, Wilsey adopts an approach determined by his being a Christian historian whose search for the truth is animated by what the Apostle Paul called the "fruit of the spirit" in Galatians 5:22, which includes an awareness of responsibility to the dead. In addition, Wilsey considers that "…in communing with the dead, perhaps we can come to a sound understanding of our own nature before our Creator" (p. 18). Wilsey’s analysis is tempered by empathy and charity, mindful of historical hindsight, and authorial limitations. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csac017 |