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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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.
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Gary Dorrien writes in an easy-to-read manner. The book surveys liberal theology in the United States from 1900 to 1950, and shows, in my opinion, that liberal theology makes more sense than either a fundamentalist theology or a neo-orthodox one. He describes the thought of numerous thinkers and shows that Christianity can, if understood in this way, still be relevant to the modern age. It is a needed counter-balance to the highly publicized Christian right.
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The young academics who joined the faculty of Union Theological Seminary in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were interested in the possibilities of a gospel-oriented and explicitly modern Protestantism. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, United States, New Testament, Reinhold Niebuhr, Union Seminary, University of Chicago, Christian Century, Jesus Christ, New Being, Boston University, Van Dusen, William James, Shailer Mathews, American Christianity, Old Testament, Walter Rauschenbusch, Federal Council of Churches, Richard Niebuhr, Union Theological Seminary, African American, William Adams Brown, August Rauschenbusch, Washington Gladden, American Protestantism, Georgia Harkness New!
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