The faith of a church or of a nation is an adequate faith only when it inspires and enables people to give of their time and energy to shape the various institutions - social, economic, and political - of the… — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image
An unexamined faith is not worth having, for it can be true only by accident. — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image
We are not a religious tradition with a creed, but a religious movement that has always wedded social justice work to theology — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image
The faith of a church or of a nation is an adequate faith only when it inspires and enables people to give of their… — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image
L]iberalism holds that the resources (divine and human) that are available for the achievement of meaningful change justify an attitude of ultimate optimism — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image
The free person does not live by an unexamined faith. To do so is to worship an idol whittled out and made into a… — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image
Everyone is a theologian, either conscious or unconscious, in the sense that everyone has some conception of the nature of reality, of the demands… — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image
Church is a place where you get to practice what it means to be human. — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image
Religious liberalism affirms the moral obligation to direct one's effort toward the establishment of a just and *loving* community. — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image
A good deal of so-called atheism is itself, from my point of view, theologically significant. It is the working of God in history, and… — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image
I call that church free which enters into the covenant with the ultimate source of existence. It binds together families and generations, protecting against… — James Luther Adams Copy Share Image