"This refreshing study of Christian activism appeals to Bonhoeffer's deeply Luteheran Christology and transcends the usual stereotypes of evangelicals as right-wingers and mainliners as left-wingers...this books merits attention, not only as a Bonhoeffer study but also as the witness of the social consciousness of McBride herself, a young evangelical."--
Lutheran Quarterly"I am interested in convincing as many people as possible to purchase and read this book."--
Word & World"This remarkable study is important in two aspects: it is theology with Bonhoeffer beyond Bonhoeffer, and it is translating Bonhoeffer's ecclesiology into the free church and democratic system of the USA. This is public theology at its best." --Professor Jürgen Moltmann, author of
The Theology of Hope"
The Church for the World is an important book that deserves a wide audience inside and outside the academy. Critics of the religious right and the religious left abound; yet alternative visions of public witness often remain abstract or nostalgic. Blending ethnography and profound theological analysis, McBride offers a first-rate study of Dietrich Bonhoeffer that shows what confession and repentance might look like for today's church and world." --Eric Gregory, Professor of Religion, Princeton University
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The Church for the World is a fine theological account of how North American Protestants can render non-triumphalist public witness in a pluralist setting. The close reading and use of Bonhoeffer's theology, together with ethnographic studies of church communities, give McBride's work gratifying nuance and depth." --Larry Rasmussen, Reinhold Niebuhr Professor Emeritus of Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary
