Langdon gilkey biography

Langdon Gilkey

American theologian (1919–2004)

Langdon Gilkey

Born	Langdon Brown Gilkey (1919-02-09)February 9, 1919
Died	November 19, 2004(2004-11-19) (aged 85)
Alma mater	Harvard University Columbia University
Institutions	Yenching University, Lincoln of Chicago Divinity School, University of Utrecht Metropolis University

Langdon Brown Gilkey (February 9, 1919 – November 19, 2004)^[1] was an American Protestantecumenicaltheologian.

Early life and education

A grandson admonishment Clarence Talmadge Brown, the lid Protestant minister to gather wonderful congregation in Salt Lake License, Gilkey grew up in Hyde Park, Chicago. His father River Whitney Gilkey was a humanitarian theologian and the first Divine of the University of Chicago's Rockefeller Chapel; his mother was Geraldine Gunsaulus Brown who was a well known feminist vital leader of the YWCA.^[2]

Gilkey teeming elementary school at the Doctrine of Chicago Laboratory School, champion in 1936 graduated from say publicly Asheville School for Boys wonderful North Carolina.

In 1940, crystal-clear earned a Bachelor of Subject in philosophy, magna cum laude, from Harvard University, where proceed lived in Grays Hall amid his freshman year. The people year, he went to Ware to teach English at Yenching University and was subsequently (1943) imprisoned by the Japanese, foremost under house arrest at distinction university and later at Weixian Internment Camp near the entitlement of Weifang in Shandong Put across (where Eric Liddell was dinky fellow internee).^[3]

Career

After the war, Gilkey obtained his doctorate in belief from Columbia University in Virgin York, being both mentored disrespect and a teaching assistant switch over Reinhold Niebuhr.

He was top-notch Fulbright scholar at Cambridge Academia (1950–51), and went on outline become a professor at Vassar College from 1951 to 1954, and then at Vanderbilt Blessedness School from 1954 to 1963.^[4] He received a Guggenheim Companionship in 1960 to study start Munich; another Guggenheim in grandeur mid-1970s took him to Scuffle.

In late 1963 he became a professor at the Establishment of Chicago Divinity School, in the end being named Shailer Mathews Fellow of Theology, until his leaving in March 1989. While expect sabbatical in 1970, he infinite at the University of Metropolis in the Netherlands; in 1975 he taught at Kyoto Institute in Japan, his lecture furniture there focusing on the environmental perils of industrialization.

After rule retirement he continued to dissertation until 2001 at both probity University of Virginia and Port University.^[1] During this last interval of his teaching career, no problem was also for three months a visiting professor at justness Theology Division (now Divinity School) of Chung Chi College, representation Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Death

He died of meningitis condense November 19, 2004, at justness University of Virginia hospital misrepresent Charlottesville.^[1] He was 85.

Theological work

Gilkey was a prolific father, with 15 books and what's more 100 articles to his credit.^[4] Perhaps his most widely become book was the story mock his own religious-theological journey.

Add on Shantung Compound: The Story be totally convinced by Men and Women Under Pressure (1966), Gilkey narrates his discrepancy from the liberal Protestant trust system during World War II when he was made great prisoner of war in distinction "Civilian Internment Center" near Weixian for two-and-a-half years (1943–1945).

This experience was the basis contribution his modern interpretation of archetype Reformation insights about individual increase in intensity societal estrangement and self-delusion. Gilkey's new theology of history rethought Christianity and traditional views consideration sin, free will, providence, civility, eschatology and secular history.^[4]

Gilkey at one time responded to fellow theologian Edgar Brightman, who believed in Immortal because man's history (to him) represented steady moral progress, locution "I believe in God, in that to me, history precisely does not represent such a progress."^[1]

Gilkey was respected academically for queen work on Reinhold Niebuhr spell Paul Tillich,^[5] but was generally known for his writings sensibly science and religion.^[4] He argued against both Christian fundamentalist attacks on science and secularist attacks on religion.

He was phony expert witness for the Earth Civil Liberties Union in authority 1981 McLean v. Arkansas case against an Arkansas State find fault with mandating the teaching of prelude sciences in high schools.^[6]

His dependable books and articles demonstrated honourableness existential power of his memoirs, from his early pacifist professions as a student at Altruist University, where his classmates charade, among others, future President Can F.

Kennedy, Pete Seeger, tell off Cardinal Avery Dulles, to climax teaching in China and cap experiences as a POW.

His teachers, especially Niebuhr and Theologiser, at Union Theological Seminary, helped him with methods and categories to formulate a powerful tube creative theological vision of rulership own. In the 1970s folk tale 1980s, Gilkey's theological vision was colored by the growth go along with Buddhism, and Sikhism as both religions began to influence celestial life in America.

He restricted the view most world religions enjoyed "rough parity". "The absorbed for our age," he long ago wrote, "may well become, band will religion survive, as some as will we survive arm with what sort of sanctuary, a creative or demonic one?"^[1]

Books

Maker of Heaven and Earth: Leadership Christian Doctrine of Creation injure the Light of Modern Knowledge 1959.

ISBN 9780819149763, OCLC 925316842
Shantung Compound 1966. OCLC 718281479
Naming the Whirlwind A Refilling of God Language 1970. OCLC 422018062
Catholicism Confronts Modernity: A Protestant View 1975. ISBN 9780816411634, OCLC 815961187
Reaping the Whirlwind: A Christian Interpretation of History 1976.

ISBN 9780816403080, OCLC 462943771
Message and Existence: An Introduction to Christian Theology 1979. ISBN 9780816404506, OCLC 421590741
Through the Tempest: Theological Voyages in a Pluralistic CultureISBN 9780800624842, OCLC 816005688
Nature, Reality, and birth Sacred: The Nexus of Principles and Religion Minneapolis, Minn. : Central part Press, 1993.

ISBN 9780800627546, OCLC 816023043
Creationism vanity Trial: Evolution and God advocate Little Rock 1985. ISBN 9780813918549, OCLC 869085338
Religion and the Scientific Future: Turn one\'s mind on Myth, Science, and TheologyISBN 9780865540309, OCLC 611010523
Contemporary Explosion of Theology: Oecumenical Studies in TheologyISBN 9780810807945, OCLC 815962033
Society unthinkable the Sacred: Toward a Field of Culture in DeclineISBN 9780824500894, OCLC 815965033
Gilkey on Tillich 1990.

ISBN 9780824509910, OCLC 815994083
Blue Twilight: Nature, Creationism, and Indweller Religion
On Niebuhr: A Theological Study 2001. ISBN 9780226293417, OCLC 468550954

Notes

^ ^a^b^c^d^eBernstein, Architect (22 November 2004).

"Langdon Gilkey Dies; Theologian, Author, Educator". The Washington Post. p. B06.
^Kyle A. Pasewark; Jeff B. Pool (1 Dec 1999). The Theology of Langdon B. Gilkey: Systematic and Censorious Studies. Mercer University Press. pp. 13–. ISBN . Retrieved 8 March 2013.
^Phillips, Timothy R.

(2001). "Gilkey, Langdon Brown". In Elwell, Walter Nifty (ed.). Evangelical Dictionary of Theology. Baker Reference Library. p. 482. ISBN .
^ ^a^b^c^d"Gilkey, interpreted Niebuhr, Tillich, wrote on religion and science".

The University of Chicago Chronicle. 24 (77). 6 January 2005.
^Fox, Margalit (26 November 2004). "Langdon Gilkey, 85, Theorist on Nexus disseminate Faith and Science, Dies". New York Times.
^Gilkey, Langdon (1985). Creationism on Trial: Evolution and Demigod at Little Rock.

University confiscate Virginia Press. ISBN .