Confronting the Will to Power

Lovatt takes up Niebuhr's theology and presents it to be, at its heart, an attempt to grapple with the most powerful and dangerous aspect of human nature: a quality Niebuhr describes as 'the will-to-power'. The author argues that Niebuhr identifies the fundamental nature of human sin as having very specific qualities and that Niebuhr, over his various works, develops a theology that seeks to deal effectively with this quality.