Title: To see the kingdom : the theological vision of H. Richard Niebuhr /
Authors: Fowler, James W., 1940-
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Year: 1974
Subjects: Niebuhr, H. Richard
Contents: Theological preludes and prophetic inquiry : Young in Eden ; The formative encounter with Troeltsch ; Social sources and a theological moratorium -- The conviction of the sovereignty of God : The coming of the central conviction ; Conceiving a new synthesis ; A God who acts? ; Jesus the revolutionary strategist -- Radical faith : Man, sin and the church in bondage ; Theology as history ; The theology of God's sovereignty: Metaphors and dynamics -- To see the kingdom : Man the responder: The triadic structure of our life in response ; Response to the redeeming action of God: Revelation and liberation ; Response to the creative action of God: Niebuhr's value theory ; Response to the governing action of God: The theory of self-denial ; The pattern of the sovereignty of God -- Faith on earth : Between Barth and Schleiermacher ; Faith on earth ; Some critical reflections -- Niebuhr's legacy : Niebuhr's development in review ; Niebhur's contributions -- Outline and bibliography of Niebuhr's lecture course in Christian ethics