The Theology of Langdon B. Gilkey: Systematic and Critical Studies - Hardcover

Gilkey, Langdon Brown

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0865546436 ISBN 13: 9780865546431

Publisher: Mercer University Press, 2000

Synopsis

Langdon Gilkey's writings have long been profitably studied by students of theology who have discovered there illuminating insights, pioneering thoughts, and even a healthy agony with which every serious thinker can identify. Now we have a systematic and critical exposition and appraisal of the theology of Langdon Gilkey. Editors Pasewark and Pool rightly insist that this is more than a Festschrift: these essays do "celebrate the life and work of Langdon Gilkey, but specifically in the context of examining the major contours of Gilkey's own theological labors". In practical terms, these essays written by a corps of Gilkey's students comprise an insightful and helpful commentary on the work and writings of Gilkey. With these pages in hand, the next generation of students surely will find reading Langdon Gilkey on the "understanding of ourselves in time" to be even more rewarding.

For more than forty-five years, Langdon Brown Gilkey has helped shape the direction of contemporary theology. From 1963 until his retirement in 1989 he taught theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School.

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About the Author

Langdon Gilkey has taught most recently at Georgetown University, the University of Virginia, and the University of Chicago Divinity School, where he is the Shailer Mathews Professor of Theology (emeritus). He is the author of a number of books, including "Shantung Compound," "Gilkey on Tillich," and "Nature, Reality, and the Sacred,"

Edition details

• Publisher: Mercer University Press
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0865546436
• ISBN 13: 9780865546431
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 560
• Editor: Pasewark Kyle A, Pool Jeff B, Paseuark Kyle A