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James Luther Adams Prophet to the Powerful James Luther Adams Prophet to the Powerful James Luther Adams Prophet to the Powerful Edited by Herbert F. Vetter Cover Portrait of James Luther Adams Paul Hertz, 1975, Some Rights Reserved. Photographer: Jon Chase Photo Harvard Square Library, Cambridge James Luther Adams: Prophet to the Powerful This book is not copyrighted and is placed in the public domain by Harvard Square Library 2008, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 02140. Published by Harvard Square Library www.harvardsquarelibrary.org ISBN: 978-0-615-25994-9 Contents I. The Life of James Luther Adams 3 Taking Time Seriously 5 James Luther Adams A Biographical and Intellectual Sketch * 15 Max L. Stackhouse Harvard Faculty Memorial Minute 43 George Kimmich Beach A Celebration of Life 49 Max L. Stackhouse II. James Luther Adams at 75* 55 Introduction by the Editor 57 The Evolution of My Social Concern 64 James Luther Adams III. James Luther Adams Papers: Six Decades * 79 1. Pessimism and Optimism in Religion 81 2. Christianity and Humanism 91 3. The Stabilizer and the Shatterer 109 4. The Liberal Christian Looks at Himself 113 5. Festschrift: Presentation to Paul Tillich 130 6. The Body and the Soul of Learning 134 IV. James Luther Adams Papers** 141 Introduction by the Editor 143 Papers 1. Our Enemy: Angelism 147 2. Religion’s Word Against Religion 154 3. The War of the Gods 156 4. Betraying the World with a Kiss 162 5. Perspectives on the Pluralistic Society 169 6. The Wrath and Love of God 176 7. The Creative Thrust of Conflict 178 8. By Their Groups Shall Ye Know Them 186 9. In the Fullness of Time 192 10. Originality 197 11. A Sense of a Cosmic Reality 203 12. Music: The Language of Hope 207 v 13. Art, Religion, and Utopia 210 14. Archibald Thompson Davison 214 15. Why Sing? 217 16. Crosses 220 17. The Crucifixion 225 18. The Bridge of Confidence 228 Blessed are the Powerful 231 A James Luther Adams Chronology 239 For a bibliography of the writings of James Luther Adams, see Not Without Dust and Heat: A Memoir by James Luther Adams, published by Exploration Press, Chicago Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois, 1995. *This section is published courtesy of The Unitarian Universalist Christian, Spring/Summer, 1977, Vol. 32, Nos. 1-2 ** This section is published courtesy of The Unitarian Universalist Christian, Fall 1993/Winter 1994, Vol. 48, Nos. 3-4 vi James Luther Adams Foundation Promoting the thought and work of James Luther Adams The James Luther Adams Foundation is pleased to be a sponsor and a supporter of James Luther Adams. Prophet to the Powerful. The Foundation was formed in 1977 to help Adams continue his scholarly work during his retirement. It provided him with secretarial help and produced on videotape and DVD Adams and the church historian, George H. Williams, discussing the films Adams had taken in Germany during the rise of Nazi power in 1936. It also arranged the disposition of Adams’ papers at the University of Syracuse research library. Since the death of James Luther Adams in 1994, the JLA Foundation has concentrated on maintaining Adams’ intellectual history. It does this by continuing the preservation of his tapes and papers and sponsoring the annual James Luther Adams Forum on Religion and Society. Here lectures are given on topics associated with Adams’ particular concerns for relating Christian faith to society. For maximum exposure, they are moved around the country. More information about the Foundation can be found on its web site, www.jameslutheradams.org, or by contacting it at 11 Miller Road, Beverly MA 01915-1315 or [email protected] (telephone and fax: 978-927-0216). There are eight other anthologies of Adams’ essays (cf. the web site for more information on these). James Luther Adams. Prophet to the Powerful stands out, however, in several ways. Starting with four essays on his life, the papers progress in a manner that indicates his evolving social concerns over the several decades of his writing. Most of the essays were previously published in a journal, The Unitarian Universalist Christian, which unfortunately is not widely distributed. Now these essays are in a book and so available for purchase, easily located, and entering libraries that do not carry the journal. Finally, the entire book is also online, making it accessible at all times in many parts of the world. This book is a distinct contribution to the maintenance of the diverse and penetrating intellectual heritage of James Luther Adams. For this the Foundation is deeply grateful to Herbert F. Vetter and the Harvard Square Library. Stephen Charles Mott, President The James Luther Adams Foundation I. Te Life of James Luther Adams Taking Time Seriously By James Luther Adams I My earliest recollection goes back to the year 1906 when I was four years old. Our family was kneeling in prayer, all of us burying our heads in pillows. We could scarcely breathe, for our farmhouse was in the path of one of the worst dust storms of a decade in the Pacific Northwest, and we were praying for relief. A few minutes before, blinded by the dust, I had lost my way in the farmyard, and on rejoining the family circle my prayer may well have been one of thanksgiving for having found the path to the house as well as of petition for the quieting of the wind. I was told much later that my father, a Baptist country preacher of premillenarian persuasion, prayed then and there for the Second Coming. At one time my father was what might be called a circuit rider and I can remember riding behind him on horseback on some of his trips. Later on, I used to take my violin along to accompany the hymn singing. My father was as otherworldly as the head of a family could possibly be. Very often he would tell us after family prayers before retiring at night that we might not see each other again on this earth. Christ might come before the morning and we should all meet him in the air. He interpreted the World War as evidence of the approaching end of the present “dispensation.” Later on, after he had joined the Plymouth Brethren, he refused on religious principle, to vote. He gave up his life insurance policy because he felt it betrayed a lack of faith in God. When he was employed by the American Railway Express Company he refused to join the union on the grounds that it was a worldly organization with worldly aims. Indeed, he had taken up railway work because of his decision to follow St. Paul’s example and refuse to accept wages for preaching the gospel. In short, my father was a man of principle. By the age of eleven I knew the whole plan of salvation according to the Scofield Reference Bible, and I testified for it in season and out. I even preached on the street and at the Salvation Army during my earlier years in college. The break came before I left college, but I did not give up religion. I simply changed my attitude: I decided that it was my mission to attack religion in season and out. I became a “campus radical” and joined 5 Prophet to the Powerful with some other quondam fundamentalists to publish an undergraduate freelance sheet which we smugly called the Angel’s Revolt. My new law was in the scientific humanism of John Dietrich and my new prophecy was in the anti-Rotarianism of H. L. Mencken. One of the great surprises of my life came at the end of my senior year in college. I had been taking a course in public speaking and all my speeches had been vicious attacks on religion as I knew it—at least, they had been as vicious as I could make them. Then the shock came one day when on leaving the classroom I happened to say quite casually to the professor that I did not know what I was going to do after graduation. I was already profitably engaged in business, but I was thoroughly discontented. The professor replied in a flash, “You don’t know what you are going to do? Why I have known for months. Come around and talk to me some day.” And then, right there in the presence of my enemies, the fundamentalists, he smote me. “There is no possible doubt about it,” he said. “You are going to be a preacher!” Later, I went by night, like Nicodemus, to question this strange counselor, Professor Frank Rarig. Within six weeks the arrangements were complete. I was to attend Harvard Divinity School. II The changes that have taken place in me since then have been changes largely characterized by a slow process of deprovincialization, and yet by a process that has found its frame of reference for the most part in the catholic tradition of Christianity. The thread of continuity running through these changes has been an interest in history. Hence the French proverb that the more human nature changes the more it remains the same, may find some illustration in my own thinking. After all, the expectation of the Second Coming “when time shall be no more” involved at least an otherworldly, negative interest in history. The major change (aside from a difference in attitude toward science and toward the kind of authority the Bible possesses) centers around a change of attitude toward, rather than a diminution of interest in, time. Whereas in my youth I felt myself to be a stranger in time, a pilgrim on a foreign strand, now (largely under the influence of Dewey, Whitehead, Tillich, and the Bible) I believe time itself to be of the essence of both God and human being.
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