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The Paradox of Church and World: Selected Writings of H. Richard Niebuhr

The Paradox of Church and World: Selected Writings of H. Richard Niebuhr

Diefenthaler, Jon

Paperback

Religion General General Christianity

ISBN10: 1451494149
ISBN13: 9781451494143
Publisher: Fortress Pr
Published: Oct 19 2015
Pages: 500
Weight: 1.93
Height: 1.40 Width: 4.74 Depth: 10.04
Language: English

Ultimately, or so H. Richard Niebuhr wrote as early as 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. In the same context he went on to state, The rhythm of approach and withdrawal need not be like the swinging of the pendulum, mere repetition without progress; it may be more like the rhythm of the waves that wash upon the beach; each succeeding wave advances a little farther into the world with its cleansing gospel before that gospel becomes sullied with the earth.

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