LEONHARD RAGAZ (1868-1945) was a leading figure in early 20th-century Swiss religious socialism, a movement that paralleled the social gospel movement in America and helped to arouse Protestantism to its social responsibility. Through the journal he edited, Neue Wege, Ragaz regularly interpreted current events in relation to God's action in history as he understood it. Best known because of his association with the Blumhardts,

Barth, and Brunner, Ragaz has received little attention in his own right from North American audiences because there has been no substantial translation of his works into English. Now Paul Bock has selected and translated a representative samp- ling of Ragaz's work that provides a solid introduction to his thought and the ways in which it developed.