A God without wrath brought men without sinto a kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a Cross.
—H. Richard Niebuhr, The Kingdom of God in America (1937), 193.
R. Scott Clark
R.Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books and the author of many articles. He is professor emeritus of church history and historical theology at Westminster Seminary California, where he taught for 29 years. He also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University. He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007 and the Heidelcast since 2009.
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True enough, but how orthodox were the Niebuhr brothers (Reinhold and H. Richard) themselves? I ask this as someone who has a lot of respect for their writings.
Not very (Barthians) but they were honest.
Ironic that this popular quote was written by one who himself was not exactly an orthodox Christian.
This quotation never gets old. Surely one of the greatest sentences in the history of the church.
Indeed. M. Scott Horton quotes this often; that’s where I first heard it, being a newbie to this wonderful Reformed side of Christianity.