The Responsibility of the Church for Society and Other Essays

by H. Richard Niebuhr

Book Overview

This collection of essays from one of America's great theological minds explores the nature and meaning of Christian community. First published between 1945 and 1960, these essays make clear for the first time H. Richard Niebuhr's moral theology of the church. Understanding Christianity itself as a movement--and not an institution--Niebuhr argues that, at their best, Christian communities should express the ongoing, transforming relation of God and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0664230482
• ISBN13: 9780664230487
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.1"