An Examined Faith: Social Context and Religious CommitmentJames Luther Adams has been a major force in American social ethics and liberal theology for more than half a century, from his work with anti-Nazi preachers in Germany in the late 1930s through his teaching at the University of Chicago and the Harvard Divinity School. Here is his latest collection of inimitable essays. |
Contents
Reflections of a Lifetime | 9 |
Conversations at Collegium xi I | 16 |
The Vocation of Ministry and The Praying Hands | 47 |
The Latest Word 47 | 55 |
Great Companions 5 Roger Baldwin By Their Groups Shall Ye Know Them 6 The Classical Humanism of Irving Babbitt | 57 |
Charles Eliot Norton Genius loci Shady Hill 8 | 58 |
The Pope Who Would Go Windowshopping 12 Reminiscences of Paul Tillich 13 In Memoriam Words for Paul Johannes Tillich | 59 |
Interrupting the Meeting 15 Encounter with the Demonic | 141 |
Our Unconquered Past | 261 |
Exiles Trapped in the Welfare State | 264 |
Broken Cisterns and Earthen Vessels | 272 |
The Religious Problem of Peace | 281 |
The Uses of Diversity | 290 |
Liberal Christianity | 301 |
Neither Mere Morality nor Mere God | 305 |
The Liberal Christian Holds Up the Mirror | 308 |
The Storms of Our Times and Starry Night | 171 |
The Existentialist Thesis | 172 |
The Chief End of Human Existence | 185 |
Sin and Salvation | 193 |
The AIDS Epidemic and Palliative Care | 201 |
Out of Despair 153 172 185 193 201 | 207 |
God Is Love | 213 |
Religion and Society | 221 |
Religion and the Ideologies | 225 |
The Prophetic Covenant and Social Concern | 234 |
Root Metaphors of Religious Social Thought | 243 |
The Arts and Society | 255 |
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An Examined Faith: Social Context and Religious Commitment Jonathan Adams,James Luther Adams Limited preview - 1991 |
An Examined Faith: Social Context and Religious Commitment Jonathan Adams,James Luther Adams No preview available - 1991 |
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References to this book
The Challenge of the Cults and New Religions: The Essential Guide to Their ... Ron Rhodes Limited preview - 2009 |