The making of American liberal theology
Subtitle: idealism, realism, and modernity, 1900-1950
By: Gary Dorrien.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Louisville, Ky
Language: eng
Number of pages: 666
Subjects: Liberalism (Religion) -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Liberalism (Religion) -- United States -- Protestant churches -- History -- 20th century.
Other titles: Idealism, realism, and modernity, 1900-1950.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [567]-638) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Creating a new mainstream : William Adams Brown, William Newton Clarke, Henry Churchill King, and the Ritschlian gospel; title: Thy kingdom come : Walter Rauschenbush, Vida Scudder, and the social(ist) gospel; title: Post-Ritschlian religion : George Burman Foster, Shailer Mathews, Shirley Jackson Case, and the Chicago School of Theology; title: In ths spirit of William James : Edward Scribner Ames, Douglas Clyde Macintosh, Gerald Birney Smith, Henry Nelson Wieman, and Chicago School Empiricism; title: The real is the personal : Albert C. Knudson, Francis J. McConnell, Edgar S. Brightman, and the Boston Personalist School; title: Practical divinity : Harry Emerson Fosdick, Rufus Jones, Georgia Harkness, Benjamin E. Mays, and the authority of spiritual experience; title: Revolt of the neoliberals : Reinhold Niebuhr, John C. Bennett, Paul Tillich, and the dialectics of trancendence; title: Modern gospels : H. Richard Niebuhr, Henry P. Van Dusen, Howard Thurman, and the liberal era in American theology.