Voluntary associations : a study of groups in free societies; essays in honor of James Luther Adams / edited by D. B. Robertson.

The nature of voluntary associations, by K. Hertz.--Associational thought in early Calvinism, by F. S. Carney.--The religious background of the idea of a loyal opposition, by G. H. Williams.--The meaning of "church" in Anabaptism and Roman Catholicism: past and present, by M. Novak.--Hobbe's theory of associations in the seventeenth-century milieu, by D. B. Robertson.--The voluntary principle in religion and religious freedom in America, by R. T. Handy.--The political theory of voluntary association in early nineteenth-century German liberal thought, by G. G. Iggers.--Rauschenbusch's view of the church as a dynamic voluntary association, by D. E. Smucker.--A note on creative freedom and the state in the social philosophy of Nicolas Berdyaev, by D. E. Sturm.

--Missionary societies and the development of other forms of associations in India, by R. W. Taylor.--The communauté de travail: experimentation in integral association, by V. H. Fletcher.--"The politics of mass society": significance for the churches, by W. A. Pitcher.--A new pattern of community, by F. H. Littell.--The crisis of the congregation: a debate, by G. Fackre.--The voluntary church: a moral appraisal, by J. M. Gustafason.--SANE as a voluntary organization, by H. A. Jack.--James Luther Adams: a biographical and intellectual sketch, by M. L. Stackhouse.--Voluntary associations as a key to history, by J. D. Hunt.--A biøliography of the writings of James Luther Adams, by R. B. Potter.

Includes bibliographical references and index.