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
