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An edition of Christ and culture (1951)

Christ and culture

Expanded ed., 50th anniversary ed.
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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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HarperSanFrancisco
Language
English
Pages
259

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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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[San Francisco]
Other Titles
Christ & culture
Copyright Date
2001

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
261
Library of Congress
BR115.C8 N5 2001

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
lv, 259 p.
Number of pages
259
Dimensions
21 x x centimeters

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Open Library
OL3585786M
Internet Archive
christculture00nieb
ISBN 10
0061300039
ISBN 13
9780061300035
LCCN
2002284347
Library Thing
38064
Goodreads
73189

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