The Making of American Liberal Theology: Crisis, Irony, and Postmodernity, 1950-2005 - Softcover

Dorrien, Gary

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0664223567 ISBN 13: 9780664223564

Publisher: Westminster/John Knox Press, 2006

Synopsis

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.

About this title

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: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0664223567
• ISBN 13: 9780664223564
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300