...book on The Kingdom of God in America further indicted this sort of religion by declaring that in it "A God without wrath brought men without sin into...the ministrations of a Christ without a cross."*** Meanwhile, his brother Reinhold, who had been a parish minister in Detroit until 1928, came to the...

...took the place of Christian revolution." Then came Niebuhr's most famous line about liberalism: in it "A God without wrath brought men without sin into...through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross." 8:52 This heir of liberalism was not finished with his word of judgment on its latter-day representatives....

...historical accuracy of the Scriptures. H. Richard Niebuhr's famous remark that according to liberalism a God without wrath brought men without sin into a...through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross captured both the thrust of liberalism and the core of conservative and neoorthodox opposition to it.3...

...indictment for which the book is perhaps best remembered is often quoted out of context. The statement, "A God without wrath brought men without sin into...through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross," in its proper context actually condemned the fatal transformation Niebuhr ascribed to the evangelical...

...the American People with the famous passage from H. Richard Niebuhr, which claims that in liberalism "a God without wrath brought men without sin into...judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross."2 The outlook of the liberals and of James was misunderstood partly because they, in James's...

...liberalism, and clothed by modern theology in an historical garb."8 For a later theologian, in liberalism "a God without wrath brought men without sin into...judgment through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross."9 The historical and psychological orientation of liberal theology resulted in a pervasive intellectualistic...

...the bad news of divine judgment and the Good News of salvation are eroded by this position in which a "God without wrath brought men without sin into...without judgment through the ministrations of a Christ wilhout a cross."54 4. The Historical Jesus The Jesus of the red letter New Testament, discovered readily...

...doubting, alienated atheist. As HR Niebuhr so succinctly put it, in America in the nineteenth century, "A God without wrath brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgement through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross." It was this sterile orthodoxy, this...

...by radical theological criticism— a criticism highlighted in Richard Niebuhr's well-known phrase: "A God without wrath brought men without sin into...through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross." Yet, when carried to an extreme, theological criticism had the paradoxical effect of reinforcing the...

...benefactor but an inscrutable Judge. He was the opposite of the liberals' "God without wrath [who] brought men without sin into a kingdom without judgment...through the ministrations of a Christ without a cross." n Richard's insistence on God's freedom and independence—his transcendence of all human categories...