For For historians of the Methodist student movement and of Oden's early thought; not for a general reader.
Should I read this?
For the general reader
1 of 5specialist interest
For the researcher
2 of 5useful
Difficulty
2 of 5moderate
An early book on the church written for the Methodist student movement of the 1960s. Mainly of historical interest.
How it proceeds
Philosophic2 of 5
Scriptural2 of 5
Experiential1 of 5
Sociological4 of 5
Historical1 of 5
Independent intensities, 0–5 — what the work is made of, not how good it is.
A book of about 150 pages published in 1964 by the National Methodist Student Movement, offering, as its subtitle says, a doctrine of the church for a renewing student movement. Oden had been active in the Methodist student movement in the 1950s, and the book belongs to that setting and to his early, pre-patristic period. Library records describe little of its contents, so nothing more is said here.
