Richard Wightman Fox

The Paradox of Church and World

Theology

“Selecting from the full spectrum of Niebuhr’s work—unknown occasional pieces and major books—Jon Diefenthaler presents a welcome feast of reflections on the Christian life. For H. Richard Niebuhr, occasional writing and long texts embodied the same quest: to participate in one’s culture while transcending it. This collection captures Niebuhr’s breadth of interest across multiple fields of learning; it brings home the elegance of his prose and the creativity of his thinking about being in the world but not of it.”