Christ and culture (Harper torchbooks, the Cloister library) - Softcover

Niebuhr, H. Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060904313 ISBN 13: 9780060904319

Publisher: Harper & Row, 1956

Synopsis

This book has soft covers.Ex-library,With usual stamps and markings,With owner''s name inside cover.In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy.

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Review:

Being fully God and fully human, Jesus raised an enduring question for his followers: what exactly was His place in this world? In the classic Christ and Culture, H. Richard Niebuhr crafted a magisterial survey of the many ways of answering that question--and the related question of how Christ's followers understand their own place in the world. Niebuhr called the subject of this book "the double wrestle of the church with its Lord and with the cultural society with which it lives in symbiosis." And he described various understandings of Christ "against," "of," and "above" culture, as well as Christ "transforming" culture, and Christ in "paradoxical" relation to it. This 50th anniversary edition of Christ and Culture, with a foreword by theologian Martin E. Marty, is not easy reading. But it remains among the most gripping articulations of what is arguably the most basic ethical question of the Christian faith: how is Christ relevant to the world in which we live now? --Michael Joseph Gross

From the Back Cover:

The following essay on the double wrestle of the church with its Lord and with the cultural society with which it lives in symbiosis represents part of the result of many years of study, reflection and teaching.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper & Row
• Publication date: 1956
• ISBN 10: 0060904313
• ISBN 13: 9780060904319
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 259