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Since its first appearance in English translation in 1962, this little book has achieved near-classic status. Thousands of beginning theological students have had the opportunity to eavesdrop, as it were, on the opening lecture of a theological seminar by one of the twentieth century’s leading Christian thinkers. More experienced pastors and theologians have also returned to it again and again...

world after the war. Meanwhile, the European parson has had to work harder to gain attention, to hold and minister to his flock. In America the post-war theologian has a similar task. He does not speak only to the theologian but to the “outsider.” The practical churchman may have it easier—at least in a superficial sense—than his Continental colleague who experienced no post-war religious revival. The day has come, however, when we must speak of difference in degrees, not in kind, between the intentions
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