James Luther Adams

An unexamined faith is not worth having, for it can be true only by accident.

— James Luther Adams

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

The faith of a church or of a nation is an adequate faith only when it inspires and enables people to give…

— James Luther Adams

Nothing is complete and thus nothing is exempt from criticism.

— James Luther Adams

L]iberalism holds that the resources (divine and human) that are available for the achievement of meaningful change justify an attitude of ultimate…

— James Luther Adams

The free person does not live by an unexamined faith. To do so is to worship an idol whittled out and made…

— James Luther Adams

Everyone is a theologian, either conscious or unconscious, in the sense that everyone has some conception of the nature of reality, of…

— James Luther Adams

Church is a place where you get to practice what it means to be human.

— James Luther Adams

Religious liberalism affirms the moral obligation to direct one's effort toward the establishment of a just and *loving* community.

— James Luther Adams

A good deal of so-called atheism is itself, from my point of view, theologically significant. It is the working of God in…

— James Luther Adams

I call that church free which enters into the covenant with the ultimate source of existence. It binds together families and generations,…

— James Luther Adams