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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 | |