1. The historical roots of Christianity: the Hebrew prophets; Response: A rhetorician for righteousness / Phyllis Trible
2. The social aims of Jesus; Response: A response by an evangelical / Tony Campolo
3. The social impetus of primitive Christianity; Response: Unless the call be heard again / Joan Chittister
4. Why has Christianity never undertaken the work of social reconstruction? Response: Repent; the kingdom is here / Stanley Hauerwas
5. The present crisis; Response: Can these dry bones live? / Cornel West
6. The stake of the church in the social movement; Response: Sounding the trumpet today: changing lives and redeeming the soul of society in the 21st century / James A. Forbes Jr.
7. What to do; Response: What to do / Jim Wallis
Afterword: Buds that never opened / Richard Rorty