«They've only been ancestral lands for at best 100 years before the pagans turn up, and it is most likely that any pagan temples were on old church sites. (premierchristianity.com)
Hauerwas is most critical of Niebuhr for not making the Church the site of substantial ethical and social action, but Niebuhr thought the institutions of civil society, not the Church, should mediate religious values and politics. (firstthings.com)