Authentic Transformation: A New Vision of Christ and Culture

摘要: The study of Christian ethics in North America has been profoundly influenced during this century by the work H. Richard Niebuhr. That influence is felt nowhere as keenly widespread use his classic text, Christ and Culture. Yet certain central flaws exist Niebuhr's on culture, particularly its lack concrete norms for church's transformative engagement with world. Scholars have long realized that further must be done area if church to speak word gospel adequately midst a pluralistic changing culture. In book, Glen Stassen, D. M. Yeager, John Howard Yoder push ethical reflection beyond Niebuhr offering an analysis critique well-known fivefold typology relation They wrestle issue how actual, working goes about being agent transformation Unlike Niebuhr, whose description transformationist ideal had little grounding existence church, authors reflect those practices through which congregations seek both embody faithfulness Jesus their As prologue analytical constructive task, volume contains previously unpublished essay "Types Ethics," he laid out framework would later expand