"The movement of withdrawal and renunciation is a necessary element in every Christian life. ... It is an inevitable answer; but it is also inadequate. ... It is inadequate, for one thing, because it affirms in words what it denies in action; namely, the possibility of sole dependence on Jesus Christ to the exclusion of culture. Christ claims no man purely as a natural being, but always as one who has become human in a culture; who is not only in culture, but into whom culture has penetrated."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Non-fiction authors from the United StatesProtestants from the United StatesTheologians from MissouriYale University alumniYale University faculty
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
pp. 68-69
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._Richard_Niebuhr
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
H. Richard Niebuhr
H. Richard Niebuhr (September 3, 1894 – July 5, 1962) was a Christian theological ethicist. He was the the younger brother of theologian Reinhold Niebuhr.
23 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by H. Richard Niebuhr →
Related Quotes
"Men must continue to condemn themselves not only for their failure to do what they could, but also for their failure …"
"The spirit of Jesus revolted against Jewish class distinctions between the righteous few and the unhallowed many He s…"
"The ideal which was implicit in Jesus’ teaching became explicit in Paul. Not only did this apostle refuse to recogniz…"
"In Protestant history the sect has ever been the child of an outcast minority, taking its rise in the religious revol…"
"Denominations, churches, sects, are sociological groups whose principle of differentiation is to be sought in their c…"
"The monastic movement ... was directed to the achievement of a Christian life, apart from civilization, in obedience …"
"The counterpart of such devotion to the commands of Jesus Christ is a thoroughgoing opposition to the institutions of…"
"Tolstoy ... can center his attack on the conscious beliefs, the tangible institutions, and the specious customs of so…"
"Tolstoy ... believed that property claims were based on robbery and maintained by violence. More radical than second-…"
"The church, as an organization interested in self-preservation and in the gain of power, has sometimes found the coun…"