A God without wrath brought men without sin into a Kingdom without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a Cross.
H. Richard Niebuhr, The Kingdom of God in America (New York: Harper & Row, 1959 [1937]) 193. (HT: Dustin Burge)
Resources
- How To Subscribe To Heidelmedia
- Niebuhr On The Marcionite Character Of Theological Modernism
- The Banality Of Theological Liberalism
- The Truth About Theological Liberalism
No fan of the Niebuhr brothers, but the neo-orthodox were right about some things. This quote was something I liked the first time I heard it almost four decades ago sitting under a neo-orthodox professor in a liberal religion class in a liberal college.
Sadly, the criticism also applies to some forms of evangelicalism that have gone down the same road.