The making of American liberal theology : idealism, realism, and modernity, 1900-1950 / Gary Dorrien.

Author/creator Dorrien, Gary J.
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoLouisville, Ky. : Westminster John Knox Press, ©2003.
Descriptionxiii, 666 pages : portraits ; 23 cm
Subjects
Liberalism (Religion)--United States. --History. --20th century.
Liberalism (Religion)--United States. --Protestant churches. --History. --20th century.

Variant title Idealism, realism, and modernity, 1900-1950.
Contents Introduction -- Creating a new mainstream : William Adams Brown, William Newton Clarke, Henry Churchill King, and the Ritschlian gospel -- Thy kingdom come : Walter Rauschenbush, Vida Scudder, and the social(ist) gospel -- Post-Ritschlian religion : George Burman Foster, Shailer Mathews, Shirley Jackson Case, and the Chicago School of Theology -- In ths spirit of William James : Edward Scribner Ames, Douglas Clyde Macintosh, Gerald Birney Smith, Henry Nelson Wieman, and Chicago School Empiricism -- The real is the personal : Albert C. Knudson, Francis J. McConnell, Edgar S. Brightman, and the Boston Personalist School -- Practical divinity : Harry Emerson Fosdick, Rufus Jones, Georgia Harkness, Benjamin E. Mays, and the authority of spiritual experience -- Revolt of the neoliberals : Reinhold Niebuhr, John C. Bennett, Paul Tillich, and the dialectics of trancendence -- Modern gospels : H. Richard Niebuhr, Henry P. Van Dusen, Howard Thurman, and the liberal era in American theology.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [567]-638) and index.
LCCN 2003266172
ISBN0664223559 (acid-free)

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