James Luther Adams is well-known for his rich and diverse contri-butions to theological scholarship, religious community, and social jus-tice. However, the integrative focus of his labors, first at Meadville The-ological School and the Federated Theological Faculty of the University of Chicago, and later at Harvard Divinity School, has been the history, theology, ethics, sociology and politics of voluntary associations. This volume brings together the major body of Adams' writings directly treat-ing the subject of voluntary associations. It also includes the major por-tion of his writings in constructive theological and social ethics.