His book, The Sense of Injustice, shows how legal
terms for human relationships have been won painfully and slowly out of long experience, guided by the religious tradition.
In his highly influential Being as Communion he argues that the inter-relationship of the three persons of the Trinity should serve as a
model for human relationships.
The personal characteristics of the change are to be seen in a sense of liberation from old rigidities and fears, a lessening of defensiveness, more openness and
courage for human relationship, and experimentation in meeting old and new situations.
«6 Christian concern for justice and
for human relationships takes one even further from «rugged individualism,» toward provision of structures of order within which freedom can be creative.
Everything else we take our chance on; everything else, including man's relative insignificance in the world, is mere probability:» If one believes in the world - embracing love of God, what does this
mean for human relationships, for the dignity of women, for the plight of the economically, politically and racially oppressed?
I assess the current level of psychological and emotional development and functioning, the strengths and weaknesses of the individual and the surrounding environment, and the individual's
capacity for human relationship and for change.»
He asked the Pharisees to state the law — divorce is legal — and then took a sharp turn into a discussion of God's
intention for human relationship — lifelong marriage.