A many-sided debate about the relations of Christianity and civilization is being carried on in our time.
An edition of Christ and culture
(1951)
Christ and culture
Expanded ed., 50th anniversary ed.
by H. Richard Niebuhr
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As relevant today as ever, this book is the definitive treatment of the ways that Christianity and culture interact. In a message that rings as true today as it did fifty years ago, H. Richard Niebuhr speaks of Christ and culture as the two points of reference for faith and ethics and challenges a new generation of Christians to be true to Christ in a materialistic age. This fiftieth-anniversay edition of his seminal work includes a new foreword by the distinguished historian Martin E. Marty, who regards this book as "one of the most vital books of our time," an introductory essay by the author never before included in the book, and a new preface by the premier Christian ethicist James M. Gustafson, viewed by many as Niebuhr's contemporary successor. - Back cover.
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Christianity, Culture, Christianity and culture, History, Historicity, Christentum, Kultur, Kirche, Christendom, Cultuur, Christianisme, Gesellschaft, Sozialethik, Christianity and culture--history, Christianity and culture--history--20th century, Br115.c8 n5 2001, 261People
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Table of Contents
A note to the reader
Foreword / Martin E. Marty
Preface : An appreciative interpretation / James M. Gustafson
Introduction : Types of Christian ethics / H. Richard Niebuhr
Part one : The enduring problem.
The problem
Toward a definition of Christ
Toward the definition of culture
The typical answers
Part two : Christ against culture.
The new people and "the world"
Tolstoy's rejection of culture
A necessary and inadequate position
Theological problems
Part three : The Christ of culture.
Accommodation to culture in gnosticism and Abelard
"Culture-Protestantism" and A. Ritschl
In defense of cultural faith
Theological objections
Part four : Christ above culture.
The church of the center
The synthesis of Christ and culture
Synthesis in question
Part five : Christ and culture in paradox.
The theology of the dualists
The dualistic motif in Paul and Marcion
Dualism in Luther and modern times
The virtues and vices of dualism
Part six : Christ the transformer of culture.
Theological convictions
The conversion motif in the fourth Gospel
Augustine and the conversion of culture
The views of F.D. Maurice
Part seven : A "concluding unscientific postscript".
Conclusion in decision
The relativism of faith
Social existentialism
Freedom in dependence
Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"Expanded edition, fiftieth anniversary"--Cover.
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