James Luther Adams Born : November 12, 1901 Died : July 26, 1994 Browse All Authors Top 11 quotes by James Luther Adams An unexamined faith is not worth having, for it can be true only by accident. James Luther Adams accidents being-true I call that church free which enters into the covenant with the ultimate source of existence. It binds together families and generations, protecting against the idolatry of any human claim to absolute truth or authority. James Luther Adams covenant church together Church is a place where you get to practice what it means to be human. James Luther Adams church practice mean 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 movement religious justice 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 common life. James Luther Adams faith giving people Religious liberalism affirms the moral obligation to direct one's effort toward the establishment of a just and *loving* community. James Luther Adams effort community religious Everyone is a theologian, either conscious or unconscious, in the sense that everyone has some conception of the nature of reality, of the demands of reality, and of those elements in reality that support or threaten meaningful existence. James Luther Adams support meaningful reality 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 optimism attitude meaningful Nothing is complete and thus nothing is exempt from criticism. James Luther Adams criticism 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 judgement upon the pious. An authentic prophet can be a radical critic of spurious piety, of sham spirituality. James Luther Adams atheism judgement views The free person does not live by an unexamined faith. To do so is to worship an idol whittled out and made into a fetish. James Luther Adams worship idols doe
