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 (New York: Harper & Row, 1959 [1937]) 193. (HT: Dustin Burge)
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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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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.