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

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.

Author: Gary Dorrien
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 02/28/2003
Pages: 666
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.28lbs
Size: 9.13h x 6.01w x 1.73d
ISBN: 9780664223557

Review Citation(s):
Christian Century 10/18/2003 pg. 57

About the Author
Dorrien, Gary: - 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.