Movement and Revolution: On American Radicalism [Association copy owned by Jitsuo Morikawa]

Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc, 1970. First edition. Octavo. Original black cloth and dust jacket (not price-clipped). Minor toning and scuffing to dust jacket, else fine. Bookplate of Japanese-American theologian and Christian environmentalist, Jitsuo Morikawa, is pasted to front free endpaper. Fine in near-fine dust jacket.. First edition of Richard John Neuhaus's (1936-2009) first book, co-authored with Austrian-born sociologist and theologian Peter L. Berger (1929-2017). Neuhaus was among the most influential American Christian intellectuals of the twentieth century who, alongside H. Reinhold Niebuhr, John Courtney Murray, and other prominent contemporary theologians, explored the intersection of religion, politics, and policy in America's modern public square. Neuhaus began his career as a minister in the Lutheran Church after completing his divinity training at Concordia Seminary in 1960. From 1961 to 1978 Neuhaus served as pastor of St. John the Evangelist Church, overseeing a predominantly poor and minority congregation in Brooklyn where he often spoke to civil rights and opposition to the Vietnam War. Neuhaus wrote Movement and Revolution in 1970 with his temperamentally conservative friend Peter L. Berger, who was then Professor of Sociology in the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. The authors argue that, despite the deeply divisive times, it remains possible for a conservative and a radical to engage in fruitful discussion regarding America's social direction. Following the publication of Movement and Revolution, Neuhaus would publish a number of works, and edit and contribute to a number of journals, in his effort to engage the religious and public conscious of America. Over the course of his life and career as a public commentator and thinker his views would continue to develop and evolve, but he remained throughout a consistent defender of orthodox Christianity and political liberalism. In 1990 he founded the religious journal First Things, which remains an influential source of Christian religious and political thought. This book is unique in that it was owned by Jitsuo Morikawa (1912-1987), a prominent Japanese-American Baptist preacher who was the first pastor appointed at the First Baptist Church in Chicago. Morikawa is renowned for his founding contributions to Christian environmentalism, articulating the need for environmental preservation rooted in Christian ethics and theological doctrine. Morikawa's personal bookplate is pasted on the front free endpaper: "From the library of / Jitsuo Morikawa." An historic association copy of this truly revolutionary book.