Gary Dorrien
Biographic Data
| ID | 485044 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gary Dorrien |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gary |
| FAMILY NAME | Dorrien |
| SIGNATURE | DORRIEN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Kalamazoo College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 47 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 47 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Darkly Radiant Vision
A Darkly Radiant Vision
This book is an interpretation of Black social Christianity since the early 1970s. It stands on its own and concludes a trilogy, completing the author’s argument that the Black social gospel is a tradition of unsurpassed importance in American life and remains ongoing. The first book of the trilogy, The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel (2015), argued that four schools of Black social Christianity arose during the Progre…
Naturalistic Empiricism as Process Theology
The founders of the Chicago School of Theology sought to develop a fully modernist theology, the first one by their standard. They swept aside the a prioris of Kant and Schleiermacher, declaring that nothing is given and no norm from the past holds legitimate authority. Theologian Shailer Mathews, philosopher of religion George Burman Foster, church historian Shirley Jackson Case, and psychologist of religion Edward Scribner Ames were the founder…
The New Heretics
Journal Article The New Heretics: Skepticism, Secularism, and Progressive Christianity. By Rebekka King Get access The New Heretics: Skepticism, Secularism, and Progressive Christianity By Rebekka King New York University Press, 2023. 255 pages. $89.00 (hardcover), $30.00 (paperback), $25.00 (e-book). Gary Dorrien Gary Dorrien Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Ox…
Three Bible Nation Arguments and the Black Social Gospel
This book completes the magnificent two-volume work that Mark Noll began with In the Beginning Was the Word: The Bible in American Public Life, 1492-1783 (2016), or to say the same thing differently, it completes the trilogy of his summing-up books that he began with America's God: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln (2002). Like its two predecessors, America's Book contains capsule summaries of arguments that Noll has proffered in several o…
American Democratic Socialism
The USA has a rich tradition of democratic socialism despite its long tradition of denigrating democratic socialism as un-American. The former American tradition has sought to Americanize democratic socialism by speaking the language of individual liberty, trying to build a coalition party of the democratic left, and grappling with American racism, cultural diversity, exceptionalist mythology, and activist religion. Democratic socialists founded …
American Democratic Socialism
Social Ethics and the Politics of Jesus
The social gospel movement that founded the field of social ethics in the USA made a defining claim that Christians must support movements for social justice. Usually it also claimed that Jesus is best interpreted through a social-ethical lens, as a prophet of justice. Social ethics, for decades, had no other basis in the USA, and even the major alternative to it that arose in the work of Reinhold Niebuhr took for granted the essential point of d…
Nancy Fraser, Iris Marion Young, and the Intersections of Justice
The call to struggle for social justice mobilizes progressive institutions, movements, and traditions that share nothing else. Progressives lacking any other ideological, religious, political, or cultural basis of commonality join together to make gains toward social justice, sometimes registering the historic limitations of this term by renaming it “eco-justice” or eco-social justice. The idea of social justice arose in the socialist and labor u…
Christian Socialism and the Future of Economic Democracy
The New Abolition
The black social gospel emerged from the trauma of Reconstruction to ask what a “new abolition” would require in American society. It became an important tradition of religious thought and resistance, helping to create an alternative public sphere of excluded voices and providing the intellectual underpinnings of the civil rights movement. This tradition has been seriously overlooked, despite its immense legacy. In this groundbreaking work, Gary …
Neo-Hegelian Theology as Process Theodicy and Socialist Idealism
Research Article| May 01 2020 Neo-Hegelian Theology as Process Theodicy and Socialist Idealism Gary Dorrien Gary Dorrien Gary Dorrien teaches at Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University. His many books include Kantian Reason and Hegelian Spirit (Blackwell, 2012), which won the Association of American Publishers’ PROSE Award in 2013, and The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel (Yale University Press, 2015) which w…
Post-Hegelian Becoming
Revising Democratic Socialism
Economic Democracy as Political Theology
The richest tradition of Christian socialism is the British Anglican one. In the beginning it was cooperative and ecumenical in the fashion of its founders, F. D. Maurice and John Ludlow. Later it became predominantly Anglo-Catholic, politically activist, and ideologically diffuse, but always with a strong social-ethical basis. Many Anglican socialists stuck to the cooperative tradition, some joined the Fabian movement after it arose in 1884, som…
Religious Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Social Justice Struggle, and the Cross
Martin Luther King, Jr., was a liberal democratic socialist of a civic republican bent who struggled mightily in Gandhian nonviolent fashion to abolish white supremacy and America’s system of racial caste, creatively mediating the historic debate in black political thought between black nationalism and liberal integration, which drew him into struggles against militarism and imperialism. Merely to unpack this sentence would show that King had a f…
Post-Kantian Historicism as American Theology
I am grateful for this rich and sumptuously detailed book by Elizabeth A. Clark on a neglected subject. Her splendid book is a reminder that although the early twentieth-century liberal and modernist scholars of early Christian history are largely forgotten-and tend to be derided when remembered-they strove with integrity and intelligence to be good historicists. I appreciate that the liberals of this period wanted Christianity to play a construc…
Breaking White Supremacy
Social Democracy in the Making
An expansive and ambitious intellectual history of democratic socialism from one of the world's leading intellectual historians and social ethicists The fallout from twenty years of neoliberal economic globalism has sparked a surge of interest in the old idea of democratic socialism--a democracy in which the people control the economy and government, no group dominates any other, and every citizen is free, equal, and included. With a focus on the…
Social Democracy in the Making
Breaking White Supremacy
Breaking White Supremacy analyzes the twentieth-century heyday of the black social gospel and its influence on the Civil Rights Movement. Asserting that Martin Luther King Jr. did not come from nowhere, it describes major figures who influenced King, offers a detailed analysis of King’s leadership of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and his catalyzing and unifying role in the southern and northern Civil Rights Movements, and interpret…
The Radical King
The story of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the civil rights movement is our greatest national treasure. It is beautiful, searing, inspiring, harrowing, and traumatic. It abounds with noble visions, resounds with magnificent rhetoric, contains a few victories, and ends in nightmarish despair and failure. It surpasses all other American stories, yet no longer makes its own way, partly because it is burdened by the way it was told for many years
The New Abolition
Christian Socialism and the Future of Economic Democracy
The new abolition
The black social gospel emerged from the trauma of Reconstruction to ask what a "new abolition" would require in American society. It became an important tradition of religious thought and resistance, helping to create an alternative public sphere of excluded voices and providing the intellectual underpinnings of the civil rights movement. This tradition has been egregiously overlooked, despite its immense legacy. In this groundbreaking work, Gar…
The Rise of Liberal Religion
Journal Article The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century Get access The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century. By Matthew S. Hedstrom. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. 278 pp. $55.00.) Gary Dorrien Gary Dorrien Union Theological SeminaryNew York, New YorkColumbia UniversityNew York, New York [email protected] Search for other …
From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich
Journal Article From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963–1994. By Dan T. Carter. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. xviii, 134 pp. $22.95, ISBN 0-8071-2118-5.) Get access Gary Dornen Gary Dornen Kalamazoo College Kalamazoo, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March 1998, Pages 1590–1591, h…
Interrogating Neoconservative Religion
Richard John Neuhaus had a stronger basis than most neoconservatives for claiming a theological kinship with Reinhold Niebuhr, but Niebuhr was not a neoconservative or a culture warrior, and Niebuhr did not claim a moral consensus for his concept of “biblical religion.”
Consolidating the Empire
The neoconservative wing of the Republican party, now in its third generation, has become primarily a movement advocating American global dominion. Dedicated to preventing any nation or group of nations from becoming a great power rival of the United States, the hallmark of the neoconservative movement is its radical faith that the maximal use of American power is good for America and the world
Neoconservatism as Orthodoxy
Economic Life
Faith, Power, and Politics
Neoconservatism as Orthodoxy
Dispatches from the Front
The Origins of Walter Rauschenbusch's Social Ethics . Donovan E. Smucker
Soul in Society
Journal Article Soul in Society: The Making and Renewal of Social Christianity. By Gary Dorrien. (Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995. x, 389pp. Paper, $24.00, ISBN 0-8006-2891-8.) Get access William Dean William Dean Iliff School of Theology, Denver, Colorado Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 1, June 1997, Pages 252–253, https://doi.org/10.2307/2952815 Published: 01 Jun…
From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich
Journal Article From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich: Race in the Conservative Counterrevolution, 1963–1994. By Dan T. Carter. (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1996. xviii, 134 pp. $22.95, ISBN 0-8071-2118-5.) Get access Gary Dornen Gary Dornen Kalamazoo College Kalamazoo, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March 1998, Pages 1590–1591, h…
A Future for Socialism? Political Theology and the "Triumph of Capitalism". Harold Wells
Socialism and Christianity in Early 20th Century America
Journal Article Socialism and Christianity in Early 20th Century America. Ed. by Jacob H. Dorn. (Westport: Greenwood, 1998. xvi, 252 pp. $59.95, isbn 0-313-30262-6.) Get access Gary Dorrien Gary Dorrien Kalamazoo CollegeKalamazoo, Michigan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 88, Issue 3, December 2001, Pages 1119–1120, https://doi.org/10.2307/2700493 Published: 01 December 2…
The Remaking of Evangelical Theology
In this in-depth historical analysis of evangelical theology, Gary Dorrien describes how evangelicalism has developed and matured. Beginning at the turn of the century and the start of the fundamentalist-modernist controversies, he notes the key figures and institutions of the evangelical movement. He also shows how evangelicalism has both diversified and entered into the broader theological discussions of today.
On Niebuhr
Consolidating the Empire
The neoconservative wing of the Republican party, now in its third generation, has become primarily a movement advocating American global dominion. Dedicated to preventing any nation or group of nations from becoming a great power rival of the United States, the hallmark of the neoconservative movement is its radical faith that the maximal use of American power is good for America and the world.
Warren Goldstein, William Sloane Coffin, Jr
Consolidating the Empire
The neoconservative wing of the Republican party, now in its third generation, has become primarily a movement advocating American global dominion. Dedicated to preventing any nation or group of nations from becoming a great power rival of the United States, the hallmark of the neoconservative movement is its radical faith that the maximal use of American power is good for America and the world
Warren Goldstein, William Sloane Coffin, Jr
Economy, Difference, Empire
Society as the Subject of Redemption: Washington Gladden, Walter Rauschenbusch, and the Social Gospel2. Reinhold Niebuhr, Karl Barth, and the Crises of War and Capitalism3. The Niebuhrian Legacy: Christian Realism as Theology, Ethics, and Public Intellectualism4. Ironic Complexity: Reinhold Niebuhr, Billy Graham, Modernity, and Racial JusticePart II: Economic Democracy in Question 5. Norman Thomas and the Dilemma of American Socialism6. Michael H…
The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness
One of the foremost philsophers and theologians of the twentieth century, Reinhold Niebuhr was for many years a Professor at Union Theological Seminary, New York City. He is the author of many classics in their field, including The Nature and Destiny of Man, Moral Man and Immoral Society, The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness, and Discerning the Signs of Our Times. He was also the founding editor of the publication Christianity and C…
Kantian Reason and Hegelian Spirit
Winner: 2012The American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in Theology and Religious Studies, PROSE Award. In this thought-provoking new work, the world renowned theologian Gary Dorrien reveals how Kantian and post-Kantian idealism were instrumental in the foundation and development of modern Christian theology. Presents a radical rethinking of the roots of modern theology Reveals how Kantian and post-Kantian idealism wer…
Interrogating Neoconservative Religion
Richard John Neuhaus had a stronger basis than most neoconservatives for claiming a theological kinship with Reinhold Niebuhr, but Niebuhr was not a neoconservative or a culture warrior, and Niebuhr did not claim a moral consensus for his concept of “biblical religion.”
The Rise of Liberal Religion
Journal Article The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century Get access The Rise of Liberal Religion: Book Culture and American Spirituality in the Twentieth Century. By Matthew S. Hedstrom. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. 278 pp. $55.00.) Gary Dorrien Gary Dorrien Union Theological SeminaryNew York, New YorkColumbia UniversityNew York, New York [email protected] Search for other …
The New Abolition
Christian Socialism and the Future of Economic Democracy
The new abolition
The black social gospel emerged from the trauma of Reconstruction to ask what a "new abolition" would require in American society. It became an important tradition of religious thought and resistance, helping to create an alternative public sphere of excluded voices and providing the intellectual underpinnings of the civil rights movement. This tradition has been egregiously overlooked, despite its immense legacy. In this groundbreaking work, Gar…
Resistance and Anticipation
New Abolition
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