The Making of American Liberal Theology: Idealism, Realism, and Modernity, 1900-1950 - Softcover

Dorrien, Gary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0664223559 ISBN 13: 9780664223557

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press, 2003

Synopsis

In this book, the second of his three-volume history, Gary Dorrien explores American theological liberalism in its heyday--at the advent of the research university and the institutionally identified school. He argues that in its prime theological liberalism effected a creative blending of theological schools, featured a tension between its evangelical and modernist impulses, and was fueled by its expectation of social and cultural progress, until its optimism was subjected to withering internal criticism in the 1930s.

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About the Author:

Gary Dorrien is Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at Columbia University in New York City. An Episcopal priest, he is the author of eleven books and over one hundred articles that range across the fields of theology, philosophy, social theory, politics, ethics, and history.

About this edition

• Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0664223559
• ISBN 13: 9780664223557
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 666