The making of American liberal theology : crisis, irony, and postmodernity 1950-2005 / Gary Dorrien.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dorrien, Gary J.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Liberalism (Religion)--United States--History--20th century.

Liberalism (Religion).

Liberalism (Religion)--United States--Protestant churches--History--20th century.

Protestant churches.

History.

United States.

Physical Description:

xv, 653 : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Louisville : Westminster John Knox Press, [2006]

Summary:

In this concluding volume of his magisterial trilogy, Gary Dorrien sustains his previous definition of liberal theology and his mixture of theological, philosophical, and historical analysis, while emphasizing the unprecedented diversity of liberal theology in the postmodern age. Dorrien argues that liberal theology has been in crisis for the past half-century, yet despite the crisis, and also because of it, it has also experienced a ?hidden renaissance? of intellectual creativity. Liberal theology in the early twenty-first century is more diverse, complex, and marginalized than ever before in its history, he concludes, but its essential idea?creating a progressive, credible, integrative third way between orthodox over-belief and secular unbelief?remains as necessary as ever.

Contents:

1. Spiritual personality: Walter G. Muelder, L. Harold DeWolf, S. Paul Schilling, Nels F. S. Ferré, and the theology of personalist idealism

2. The new metaphysics and the divine relativity: Charles Hartshorne, Bernard M. Loomer, Daniel Day Williams, Bernard E. Meland, and the religion of creative process

3. Visions of liberation: James Luther Adams, Martin Luther King Jr., J. Deotis Roberts, Valerie Saiving, Rosemary Radford Ruether, and the rhetoric of emancipation

4. In the spirit of Whitehead: W. Norman Pittenger, John B. Cobb Jr., David Ray Griffin, Marjorie Hewitt Suchocki, and process theology

5. Theology and modern doubt: Langdon Gilkey, Schubert M. Ogden, James M. Gustafson, Gordon D. Kaufman, and the divine creativity

6. Models and symbols of the divine: Peter C. Hodgson, Edward Farley, Sallie McFague, Robert Cummings Neville, and theological reconstruction

7. Liberalism and the Catholic imagination: Gregory Baum, Richard P. McBrien, David Tracy, Anne E. Carr, Elizabeth A. Johnson, and the bounds of revision

8. Rethinking the traditions: Thandeka, Forrest Church, Rufus Burrow Jr., Nancy Frankenberry, Jerome A. Stone, William Dean, Sheila Greeve Davaney, Roger Haight, Ian G. Barbour, Catherine Keller, and postmodernity

9. A hidden renaissance: the irony of liberal crisis

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0664223567

OCLC:

76064904