Author : Helmut Richard Niebuhr
Release : 2015
Genre : Religion
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 143/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Paradox of Church and World by : Helmut Richard Niebuhr
Download or read book The Paradox of Church and World written by Helmut Richard Niebuhr. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ultimately, wrote H. Richard Niebuhr in 1929, the problem of church and world involves us in a paradox; unless the church accommodates itself to the world it becomes sterile inwardly and outwardly; unless it transcends the world it becomes indistinguishable from the world and loses its effectiveness no less surely. Niebuhrs thought on the paradox of church and world is an essential piece of twentieth-century theology. Jon Diefenthaler collects over forty of Niebuhrs writings on the topic and makes a case for their enduring value in a post-church religious environment.