Moral Man and Immoral Society: A Study in Ethics and Politics is a 1932 book by Reinhold Niebuhr, an American Protestant theologian.

[3][4][5][6][7] The book attacks liberalism, both secular and religious, and is particularly critical of John Dewey[8] and the Social Gospel.

[10] He drew the book's contents from his experiences as a pastor in Detroit, Michigan prior to his professorship at Union Theological Seminary.

[11] Moral Man and Immoral Society generated much controversy and raised Niebuhr's public profile significantly.

[14] The book eventually gained significant readership among American Jews because, after a period of considerable anti-theological sentiment among Jews in the United States, many Jews began to return to the study of theology and, having no Jewish works of theology to read, turned to Protestant theological works.