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Preface In the past half-century American Christian thought has changed in important respects. A useful yardstick for measuring the scope of these changes is the fifty-three annual volumes of the weekly Christian Century. Here is recorded the swing from faith in progress, automatically ascending on the escalator of evolution, whose inventor was God, to the present dialectical realism; from a concept of the kingdom of God as something largely dependent on mans initiative to that of the kingdom as one in which the initiative lies with God, with man participating in God sredemptive activity; from the concern of the social gospel with the outward structure of justice to the inwardness of an ethi...
"The Christian Century, the most distinguished weekly of independent Protestant opinion, periodically reviews the shifting currents of theological conviction. At the invitation of Harold E. Fey, editor of the Christian Century, thirteen outstanding religious thinkers and leaders were recently asked to assess the impact of the last decade upon their work and thought. Many of these essays have already provoked considerable comment, notably Karl Barth's defense of his heterodox views on East-West political relations and Bishop Pike's second thoughts on traditional Christian creedal affirmations. Several of the essays, notably by John C. Bennett, Martin Luther King, Jr., Albert C. Outler, and Bi...
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This first volume of the series, taking the Reformation as its starting point, covers four centuries of varied endeavours towards church unity in Europe and North America. In particular it deals with the Faith and Order, World Mission and Evangelism, and Life and Work movements in the 20th century, which led to the formation of the World Council of Churches.
Chapters by John C. Bennett, Karl Barth, Albert C. Outler, Billy Graham, H. Richard Niebuhr, Will Herberg, Edward John Carnell, Martin Luther King, Jr., Reinhold Niebuhr, L. Harold DeWolf, William Hordern, Paul Tillich, and James A. Pike.