Resources
Books by James Luther Adams
This bibliography lists books and anthologies of essays by James Luther Adams, with links to book sellers and libraries where you can obtain a copy.
- Books, collections, and monographs
- The Essential James Luther Adams: Selected Essays and Addresses. Edited with introduction by George Kimmich Beach. Boston: Skinner House Books, 1998. [Amazon | AbeBooks | UUA Bookstore | Libraries]
- An Examined Faith: Social Context and Religious Commitment. Edited with introduction by George K. Beach. Boston: Beacon Press, 1991. [Amazon | AbeBooks | UUA Bookstore | Google Books | Libraries]
- "James Luther Adams at 75." Edited by Herbert F. Vetter, Jr. The Unitarian Universalist Christian 32, Nos. 1-2 (1977). [Libraries]
- "James Luther Adams Papers." Edited by Herbert F. Vetter, Jr. The Unitarian Universalist Christian 48, Nos. 3-4 (1993). [Libraries]
- Not Without Dust and Heat: A Memoir. Chicago: Exploration Press, 1995. [Amazon | AbeBooks | Libraries]
- On Being Human Religiously: Selected Essays on Religion and Society. Edited with introduction by Max L. Stackhouse. Boston: Beacon Press, 1976. [Amazon | AbeBooks | Libraries]
- Paul Tillich’s Philosophy of Culture, Science, and Religion. New York: Harper & Row, 1965. [Amazon | AbeBooks | Libraries]
- The Prophethood of All Believers. Edited with introduction by George K. Beach. Boston: Beacon Press, 1986. [Amazon | AbeBooks | Libraries]
- Taking Time Seriously. Glencoe, Ill.: The Free Press, 1957. [Amazon | AbeBooks | Libraries]
- Voluntary Associations: Socio-cultural Analyses and Theological Interpretation. Edited by J. Ronald Engel. Chicago: Exploration Press, 1986. [Amazon | AbeBooks | Libraries]
The Adams Tapes
A series of films about the church and the Nazis, based on newly processed home movies, never shown before, of Germany's most prominent Christian leaders of the 1930s. James Luther Adams, professor emeritus of Christian ethics, and George Huntston Williams, professor emeritus of church history, recount their personal remembrances of these influential leaders and discuss the dynamics of that turbulent period.
The films are available in DVD or VHS format. See below for details.
- No Authority but from God - Volume 1 (28 minutes)
- Personal reflections of both pro-Nazi and anti-Nazi church leaders. Includes Martin Niemöller, Reichbishop Ludwig Muller, Rudolf Bultmann, Karl Barth, and underground Confessing Church ministers and seminarians.
- Religion Under Hitler - Volume 2 (26 minutes)
- Germany's churches in the 1930s. The responses of Catholics, Lutherans, Calvinists, and Liberals to the rise of Hitler; analyses of how Hitler appealed to religious people; why the churches did not resist more; and what would have been an adequate theology.
- Liberalism and the Barmen Declaration in Nazi Germany - Volume 3 (26 minutes)
- The use of concepts of natural law by Liberals and Catholics and of confessional theology by Protestant Neo-Orthodox thinkers to resist Nazi ideology. The multiple definitions of "liberalism" — biblical, theological, political, and economic.
DVD
Order all three films on DVD for a donation of $45. Write to Jim Stillman, 270 Arborway, Boston MA 02130, email , or call (617) 524-2387.
VHS
Order all three films on VHS videocassette for a donation of $100. Write to JLA Foundation, c/o Stephen Mott, 11 Miller Road, Beverly MA 01915, email , or call (978) 927-0216.