The Kingdom of God in America 1st edition

Martin Marty, in his new introduction for the Wesleyan reissue of H. Richard Niebuhr’ s The Kingdom of God in America, calls it “ a classic.” First published in 1938,

“ It remains the classic reflection of the Protestant roots and ethos behind pluralistic America and its religions today.” Marty notes that the new “ raw and rich pluralism” that challenges the Protestant hegemony in American life has left many Protestants longing to “ get back to their roots.” Niebuhr’ s book , perhaps more than any other, identifies and describes those roots for Protestants, especially Congregationalists, Episcopalians, Presbyterians, Methodists, Quakers, Baptists, and Lutherans.

Introduction by Martin E. Marty.