The Transformation of John Foster Dulles: From Prophet of Realism to Priest of NationalismMercer University Press, 1985 - 277 стор. "Was the John Foster Dulles who personified the Cold War as U.S. secretary of state in the 1950s the same man who denounced narrow nationalism as a leader of worldwide ecumenism and liberal Protestantism in the 1930s? In this remarkable study Mark Toulouse documents the 'transformation' of Dulles 'from prophet of realism to priest of nationalism,' overturning misconceptions of those historians who have tended to read Dulles's early years backward from what they know of him as secretary of sate. Christian missions and international diplomacy shaped John Foster Dulles from childhood. His father was a liberal Presbyterian minister; one grandfather had been a missionary to India, while the other had served as U.S. secretary of state under Benjamin Harrison, and an uncle would serve Woodrow Wilson in the same office. As a Princeton undergraduate Dulles accompanied his grandfather to an international peace conference at The Hadue in 1907, where he became a secretary to the Chinese delegation. That experience, and a year at the Sorbonne, pointed Dulles toward international law rather than the ministry. But he remained an active, ecumenically minded Presbyterian lay leader, serving in several important denominational posts. He successfully defended the the controversial Harry Emerson Fosdick and Henry P. Van Dusen before the Presbyterian General Assembly when fundamentalists attempted to depose them. In 1921 Dulles was appointed to the newly formed Commission on International Justice and Goodwill of the Federal Council of Churches. Dulles emerged as an international leader in 1937 at the ecumenical Oxford conference on life and work. Convinced in his discussions there of the ned to translate his inherited 'spiritual values' into practical international diplomacy, Dulles organized and became chairman of the Federal Council's Commission to Study the Bases of a Just and Durable Peace. Through the years of world war and as a participant in the United Nations Conference in 1945, Dulles sought a peace that would transcend the narrow concerns of nationalism and political ideology. But after 1945, as Professor Toulous shows, the 'prophetic realism' that had guided Dulles's ecumenical quest for world peace and justice became a 'priestly nationalism' that uncompromisingly pursued the international political aims of the United States in the name of a 'supreme moral law.' Toulouse's incisive analysis of that 'transformation' is compelling reading for scholars of international diplomacy and American religion, and for every person who seeks to reconcile the imperatives of religion with the necessities of statecraft" -- |
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Religious Influences and Church Involvements | 3 |
Diplomatic Influences and International Involvements | 27 |
Prophet of Realism The Narrative Setting and the Ideological Framework 19371945 | 45 |
The Great Enlightenment | 47 |
The Commission on a Just and Durable Peace | 61 |
What Is Diagnosing the Problem of International Relations | 87 |
What Ought To Be Suggesting a Solution for the Problem | 113 |
Moving from Problem toward Solution The United Nations Charter | 133 |
From Prophet of Realism to Priest of Nationalism The Years of Transformation 19451952 | 151 |
Toward Noncooperation 19451946 | 153 |
From Noncooperation to Prevention 19461949 | 181 |
From Prevention to Opposition 19491952 | 215 |
Conclusion | 249 |
Bibliography | 255 |
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The Transformation of John Foster Dulles: From Prophet of Realism to Priest ... Mark G. Toulouse Перегляд фрагмента - 1985 |
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