Empirical tradition in American liberal religious thought, 1860-1960
By: W. Creighton Peden.
Series: American liberal religious thought -- v. 10
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 298
ISBN-13: 9781433108099
Subjects: Free Religious Association (Boston, Mass.); Liberalism (Religion) -- United States; Empirical theology; Chicago school of theology
Description: "This book introduces the empirical tradition in American liberal religious thought, from 1860 to 1960, by exploring the thought of significant individual contribution. The first section focuses on four participants in the Free Religious Association of 1867, which supported free religion, the scientific method, and evolution: F. E. Abbot, W. J. Potter, D. A. Wasson, and M. J. Savage. The second section focuses on the empirical tradition as expressed by eight scholars from the "Chicago School" in American liberal religious thought: S. Mathews, G. B. Foster, E. S. Ames, G. B. Smith, S. J. Case, A. E. Hadon, H. N. Wieman, and B. E. Meland." --Book Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part I: The free religious association; title: Introduction; title: Francis Ellingwood Abbot, 1836-1903; title: William James Potter, 1829-1893; title: David Atwood Wasson, 1828-1887; title: Minot Judson Savage, 1841-1918; title: Part II: The Chicago School; title: Introduction; title: Shailer Mathews, 1863-1941; title: George Burman Foster, 1857-1918; title: Edward Scribner James, 1870-1958; title: Gerald Birney Smith, 1868-1929; title: Shirley Jackson Case, 1872-1947; title: Albert Eustace Haydon, 1880-1975; title: Henry Nelson Wieman, 1884-1975; title: Bernard Eugene Meland, 1899-1993; title: Conclusion.