An Examined Faith Social Context and Religious Commitment

, by Adams, Jonathan; Adams, James Luther

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ISBN: 9780807016114 | 080701611X
Cover: Paperback
Copyright: 7/31/1991

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James 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.

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Acknowledgments	p. xi
Introduction	p. 1
Reflections of a Lifetime
A Come-Outer	p. 17
A Time to Speak: Conversations at Collegium	p. 19
The Vocation of Ministry and The Praying Hands	p. 47
The Latest Word	p. 55
Great Companions
Roger Baldwin: By Their Groups Shall Ye Know Them	p. 61
The Classical Humanism of Irving Babbitt	p. 67
Charles Eliot Norton, Genius loci, Shady Hill	p. 75
William James: "No Man for Committees"	p. 83
George Huntston Williams, Church Historian	p. 94
Ernst Troeltsch and Harold Berman on Natural Law	p. 106
John XXIII: The Pope Who Would Go Window-shopping	p. 120
Reminiscences of Paul Tillich	p. 125
In Memoriam: Words for Paul Johannes Tillich	p. 133
History and Theology
Prophetic Theology: Interrupting the Meeting	p. 145
Encounter with the Demonic	p. 149
The Storms of Our Times and Starry Night	p. 153
The Existentialist Thesis	p. 172
The Chief End of Human Existence	p. 185
Sin and Salvation	p. 193
The AIDS Epidemic and Palliative Care	p. 201
Out of Despair	p. 207
God Is Love	p. 213
Religion and Society
Religion and the Ideologies	p. 225
The Prophetic Covenant and Social Concern	p. 234
Root Metaphors of Religious Social Thought	p. 243
The Arts and Society	p. 255
Our Unconquered Past	p. 261
Exiles, Trapped in the Welfare State	p. 264
Broken Cisterns and Earthen Vessels	p. 272
The Religious Problem of Peace	p. 281
The Uses of Diversity	p. 290
Liberal Christianity
Neither Mere Morality nor Mere God	p. 305
The Liberal Christian Holds Up the Mirror	p. 308
Liberals and Evangelicals	p. 323
Liberal Religion and the Phoenix	p. 332
The Ages of Liberalism	p. 337
The Grotesque and Our Future	p. 353
Covenants of Strength and Love	p. 359
In the Beginning Is the Word	p. 365
The Messianic Banquet	p. 371
Index	p. 375
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