Christ and Culture

by Niebuhr, H. Richard

• ISBN13: 9780061300035
• ISBN10: 0061300039
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

This 50th-anniversary edition, with a new foreword by the distinguished historian Martin E. Marty, who regards this book as one of the most vital books of our time, as well as an introduction by the author never before included in the book, and a new preface by James Gustafson, the premier Christian ethicist who is considered Niebuhr's contemporary successor, poses the challenge of being true to Christ in a materialistic age to an entirely new generation of Christian readers.

Table of Contents

A Note to the Reader
Acknowledgments
Foreword
Preface: An Appreciative Interpretation
Introduction: Types of Christian Ethics
The Enduring Problem
The Problem	p. 1
Toward a Definition of Christ	p. 11
Toward the Definition of Culture	p. 29
The Typical Answers	p. 39
Christ Against Culture
The New People and "The World"	p. 45
Tolstoy's Rejection of Culture	p. 56
A Necessary and Inadequate Position	p. 65
Theological Problems	p. 76
The Christ of Culture
Accommodation to Culture in Gnosticism and Abelard	p. 83
"Culture-Protestantism" and A. Ritschl	p. 91
In Defense of Cultural Faith	p. 101
Theological Objections	p. 108
Christ Above Culture
The Church of the Center	p. 116
The Synthesis of Christ and Culture	p. 120
Synthesis of Question	p. 141
Christ and Culture in Paradox
The Theology of the Dualists	p. 149
The Dualistic Motif in Paul and Marcion	p. 159
Dualism in Luther and Modern Times	p. 170
The Virtues and Vices of Dualism	p. 185
Christ the Transformer of Culture
Theological Convictions	p. 190
The Conversion Motif in the Fourth Gospel	p. 196
Augustine and the Conversion of Culture	p. 206
The Views of F. D. Maurice	p. 218
A "Concluding Unscientific Postscript"
Conclusion in Decision	p. 230
The Relativism of Faith	p. 234
Social Existentialism	p. 241
Freedom in Dependence	p. 249
Index	p. 257
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