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Why Niebuhr in a new era? -- Taking the long view of history -- Recognizing human ambiguity -- Connecting with wit and words -- Revisiting America with irony -- Debating politics and the Christian faith -- Living with Niebuhr's legacy

When wealthy Jewish industrialist David Friedlander proposed in 1799 that Berlin's Jews undergo a sham conversion to Christianity in return for full German citizenship, he touched off a political and theological debate that would continue to define the relation between Jewish and German identity for more than a century. In the series of provocative letters collected here, Friedlander, Protestant leader Wilhelm Abraham Teller, and young Christian theologian Friedrich Schleiermacher debate Friedlander's radical proposal. In so doing, they grapple with many of the thorny problems--such as citizen