A many-sided debate about the relations of Christianity and civilization as being

carried on in our time.

Well welcome back to another episode of five minutes in church history.

On this episode, we are talking about the enduring problem.

This is a phrase that was used by an American theologian

named H Richard Neber.

And this is the first chapter of his book,

a book entitled Christ in Culture.

The first chapter is entitled The Enduring Problem.

And as that sentence has it it as I read to you

he is speaking about a many-sided debate he uses the word civilization we could also

just say culture the relations of Christianian culture.

Nieberg goes on to say historians and theologians,

statesmen and churchmen, Catholics and Protestants,

Christians and non-Christians participate in it.

It is carried on publicly by opposing parties

and privately in the conflicts of conscience.

Sometimes it, this enduring problem, is concentrated on special issues such as those of the place of Christian faith and general education, or of Christian ethics and the economic life.

Sometimes it deals with broad questions

of the church's responsibility for social order

or of the need for a new separation

of Christ's followers from the world.

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