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| Foreword | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Historical Roots of Christianity: The Hebrew Prophets | |
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| Religion ethical and therefore social | |
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| Public and not private morality | |
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| The champions of the poor | |
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| The effect of the social interest on the religious life | |
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| The later religious individualism | |
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| The prophetic hope of national perfection | |
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| The "pessimism" of the prophets | |
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| Summary | |
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| Response: A Rhetorician for Righteousness | |
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| The Social Aims of Jesus | |
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| The new social insight into the Gospel | |
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| Jesus not a social reformer | |
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| His relation to contemporary movements | |
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| The purpose of Jesus: the kingdom of God | |
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| The kingdom of God and the ethics of Jesus | |
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| Insistence on conduct and indifference to ritual | |
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| His teaching on wealth | |
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| The social affinities of Jesus | |
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| The revolutionary consciousness of Jesus | |
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| Response: A Response by an Evangelical | |
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| The Social Impetus of Primitive Christianity | |
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| The limitations of our information | |
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| The hope of the coming of the Lord | |
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| The revolutionary character of the millennial hope | |
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| The political consciousness of Christians | |
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| The society-making force of primitive Christianity | |
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| The so-called communism at Jerusalem | |
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| The primitive churches as fraternal communities | |
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| The leaven of Christian democracy | |
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| The outcome | |
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| Response: Unless the Call Be Heard Again | |
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| Why Has Christianity Never Undertaken the Work of Social Reconstruction? | |
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| Impossibility of any social propaganda in the first centuries | |
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| Post-ponement to the Lord's coming | |
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| Hostility to the Empire and its civilization | |
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| The limitations of primitive Christianity and their perpetuation | |
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| The otherworldliness of Christianity | |
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| The ascetic tendency | |
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| Monasticism | |
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| Sacramentalism | |
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| The dogmatic interest | |
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| The churchliness of Christianity | |
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| Subservience to the State | |
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| The disappearance of church democracy | |
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| The lack of scientific comprehension of social development | |
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| The outcome of the discussion | |
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| The passing of these causes in modern life | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Response: Repent. The Kingdom Is Here | |
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| The Present Crisis | |
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| The industrial revolution | |
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| The land and the people | |
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| Work and wages | |
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| The morale of the workers | |
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| The physical decline of the people | |
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| The wedge of inequality | |
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| The crumbling of political democracy | |
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| The tainting of the moral atmosphere | |
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| The undermining of the family | |
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| The fall or the rise of Christian civilization | |
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| Response: Can These Dry Bones Live? | |
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| The Stake of the Church in the Social Movement | |
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| The Church and its real estate | |
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| The Church and its income | |
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| The supply and spirit of the ministry | |
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| The Church and poverty | |
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| The Church and its human material | |
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| The hostile ethics of commercialism | |
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| Christian civilization and foreign missions | |
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| The forward call to the Church | |
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| Response: Sounding the Trumpet Today: Changing Lives and Redeeming the Soul of Society in the 21st Century | |
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| What to Do | |
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| "No Thoroughfare" | |
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| Social repentance and faith | |
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| Social evangelization | |
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| The pulpit and the social question | |
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| The Christian conception of life and property | |
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| The creation of customs and institutions | |
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| Solidarity and communism | |
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| The upward movement of the working class | |
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| Summary of the argument | |
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| The new apostolate | |
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| Response: What to Do | |
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| Afterword: Buds That Never Opened | |
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| Notes | |
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| Contributors | |
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| Index | |