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Authentic Transformation: A New Vision of Christ and Culture
Theology Today, Apr 1998 by Crocco, Stephen D
Authentic Transformation: A New Vision of Christ and Culture. Glen H. Stassen, D. M. Yeager, and John Howard Yoder, with a previously unpublished essay by H. Richard Niebuhr, Nashville, Abingdon, 1996. 299 pp. $15.95.
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H. Richard Niebuhr continues to exert an extraordinary influence in Christian ethics. This may be especially true in Christ and Culture, Niebuhr's best-selling book, whose categories, Yoder says, have "become the common coin of contemporary thought." Authentic Transformation contains Niebuhr's previously unpublished precursor to Christ and Culture, "Types of Christian Ethics," and four essays about Niebuhr's ethics. Yoder's essay questions Niebuhr's use of types, his historical illustrations, and the adequacy of his use of the "free church" tradition. Yeager shows that allegations of Niebuhr's quietism do not stand up to a careful reading of his evangelical conception of social Christianity. Stassen defends Niebuhr from those who downplay the centrality of "Christ-centered concreteness" for Niebuhr's transformationalism. In the concluding essay, written with Yoder and Yeager in mind, Stassen proposes a new relationship between Christ and culture. This constructive statement lifts up an ethic for the church in the spirit of Niebuhr's categories of conversion and faithfulness. This is an important book for anyone who uses Christ and Culture as a text or for those who consciously or unconsciously use its categories. That covers just about all readers of this journal.
Stephen D. Crocco, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, NJ.
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