4.10 Dorrien (1998)
Dorrien, Gary (1998) The Remaking of Evangelical Theology. Louisville, Kentucky: Westminster John Knox Press.
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Author Gary Dorrien is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at Columbia University. He is the author of 14 books and approximately 250 articles that range across the fields of ethics, social theory, theology, philosophy, politics and history. His trilogy, The Making of American Liberal Theology, is considered by many to be the definitive work in the field. His book, Social Ethics in the Making, a comprehensive interpretation of social ethics as an academic field as well as a tradition of public discourse, won the Choice Award as the outstanding book in ethics of 2009. He has been described as “the preeminent social ethicist in North America today” by Princeton University philosopher Cornel West. I've also reviewed on this site Dorrien's The Obama Question A Progressive Perspective (see 5.1) |
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This study by a liberal Christian thinker has been given the rare honor of being praised as fair by many evangelicals; it's one sign that he is center-left in his historical work, even if he is recognized as solid-left in his own values.
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"In their treatments of contemporary theology, historians generally pay scant--if any--attention to evangelical thinkers and conversations within the evangelical trajectory (unless, of course, these historians happen to be evangelicals themselves). The Remaking of Evangelical Theology marks a welcomed break from this pattern. Gary Dorrien not only chronicles developments within the last hundred years of evangelical theological reflection, but also presents the ferment within the movement as a sign of health and vibrancy. The result is an engaging, substantial piece of theological journalism that offers non-evangelicals a lucid introduction to this significant but generally overlooked segment of the Christian church and provides evangelicals with a sympathetic outsider's view of their heritage worth pondering." ~Stanley J. Grenz, Profession of Theoogy and Ethics at Carey/Regent College, Vancouver
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"This is a book we have needed for a long time. Gary Dorrien carefully, critically, and sympathetically surveys the varieties of contemporary evangelical theology, which have too often been ignored by other theologians. This book could provide the framework for one of the central ecumenical challenges of the twenty-first century: the rapprochement, if not reconciliation, between conservative and liberal traditions in Western Christianity." ~John M. Mulder, President and Professor of Historical Theology, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
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