Opening Sections: Acknowledgements, Foreword, Preface

Acknowledgements (by H.R. Niebuhr)



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Foreword (by Martin E. Marty)
The types Niebuhr creates are zones, not not strait-jackets.
They also help us to understand each other
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Preface: (by James M. Gustafson)

1. Discussion of CRITICS:

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        They say "Few books have been a greater hinderance to an acurate
         assessment of our situation than Christ and Culture."
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    B. George Marsden: "Transforming Niebuhr's Categories"
    & Austin Seminary Lectures in Insights
        Says "Despite its enormous influence in the past fifty years, I think
        Niebuhr's analysis in its present form could be near the end of its
        usefullness."
         "Its categories are wrong and misleading"
        Read "Transforming Niebuhr's Categories"
        Read in Insights Magazine

        George Marsden: at Notre Dame

              Marsdens Arguments (as mentioned by Gustafson)
             -Says book was a product of its time &
              questions different today
             -Says using Christ and culture is misleading as forget that
              their own understanding of Christianity is a cultural project
              -cites John Yoder’s critique of Niebuhr’s term culture as
             equivalent to anything people do together
              -says Niebuhr not thinking about “things like language,
              agriculture or hospitals” but about “higher learning,
              secular reason, and the arts”
              -says little attention to how one’s sub-cultural identity may
              cut across attitudes towards cutlure generally
              or of how social class may be a factor
              in determining cultural attitudes…
              -says misleads one to thinking each Christian or group
              can be adequately typed by one of the attitudes
             -says Niebuhr does not deal with issues of gender and race,
              and with thoughts of elitles rather than what
              ordinary people thought or did

    C. John Howard Yoder
          The Legacy of an Inadequate Christology: Yoder's Critique
          of Niebuhr's Christ and Culture by CRAIG A. CARTER


2. Response to Critics (by Gustafson)
          Says inclusion of Niebuhr's article “Types of Christian Ethics”
          (Introduction) helps to guard against misreading of the book
          Gustafson says the book IS NOT
              1. Not a history of Christian Ethics or Theology
              2. Not a systematic statement of Niebuhr’s theological ethics
              (treats each type fairly)
              3. Not a taxonomy of the writings of the authors in the book
              (ie that Aquinas also has transforming themes)
          “typology helps us to understand the infinite variety of creative morality in Christianity but every individual man or movemet has a unique character which is inexplicab le in terms of type alone; further, the types of Christian morality are not measures of value.”
pg. xxx Terms/vocab