Voluntary associations
Subtitle: a study of groups in free societies; essays in honor of James Luther Adams.
By: Edited by D. B. Robertson.
Contributors: Adams, James Luther, 1901-
Publisher: John Knox Press
Published: 1966
Place of publication: Richmond
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
Subjects: Christian sociology; Church; Associations, institutions, etc
Notes: --Missionary societies and the development of other forms of associations in India, by R. W. Taylor.--The communauté de travail: experimentation in integral association, by V. H. Fletcher.--"The politics of mass society": significance for the churches, by W. A. Pitcher.--A new pattern of community, by F. H. Littell.--The crisis of the congregation: a debate, by G. Fackre.--The voluntary church: a moral appraisal, by J. M. Gustafason.--SANE as a voluntary organization, by H. A. Jack.--James Luther Adams: a biographical and intellectual sketch, by M. L. Stackhouse.--Voluntary associations as a key to history, by J. D. Hunt.--A bibliography of the writings of James Luther Adams, by R. B. Potter.
Table of contents: title: The nature of voluntary associations, by K. Hertz.; title: Associational thought in early Calvinism, by F. S. Carney.; title: The religious background of the idea of a loyal opposition, by G. H. Williams.; title: The meaning of "church" in Anabaptism and Roman Catholicism: past and present, by M. Novak.; title: Hobbe's theory of associations in the seventeenth-century milieu, by D. B. Robertson.; title: The voluntary principle in religion and religious freedom in America, by R. T. Handy.; title: The political theory of voluntary association in early nineteenth-century German liberal thought, by G. G. Iggers.; title: Rauschenbusch's view of the church as a dynamic voluntary association, by D. E. Smucker.; title: A note on creative freedom and the state in the social philosophy of Nicolas Berdyaev, by D. E. Sturm.