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Langdon Gilkey

American theologian (–)

Langdon Gilkey

Born	Langdon Brown Gilkey ()February 9,
Died	November 19, () (aged&#;85)
Alma mater	Harvard University Columbia University
Institutions	Yenching University, University of Chicago Divinity School, University of Utrecht Kyoto University

Langdon Brown Gilkey (February 9, &#; November 19, )^[1] was an American Protestantecumenicaltheologian.

Early life and education

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

Gilkey attended elementary school at the University of Chicago Laboratory School, and in graduated from the Asheville School for Boys in North Carolina.

In , he earned a Bachelor of Arts in philosophy, magna cum laude, from Harvard University, where he lived in Grays Hall during his freshman year. The following year, he went to China to teach English at Yenching University and was subsequently () imprisoned by the Japanese, first under house arrest at the university and later at Weixian Internment Camp near the city of Weifang in Shandong Province (where Eric Liddell was a fellow internee).^[3]

Career

After the war, Gilkey obtained his doctorate in religion from Columbia University in New York, being both mentored by and a teaching assistant to Reinhold Niebuhr.

Langdon gilkey biography of albert einstein Indiana University Press. The underlying claims between the parties in that lawsuit were ultimately settled. Discovering the Expanding Universe. The author of fourteen books and more than one hundred articles, Gilkey's theological method, like Tillich's, was "correlational," a discussion that reflected a more basic pattern of thinking, namely, "to ponder the character of our existence, both personal and historical, before God in the light of the historical and social situation, the massive contours of events, in which we find ourselves.

He was a Fulbright scholar at Cambridge University (–51), and went on to become a professor at Vassar College from to , and then at Vanderbilt Divinity School from to ^[4] He received a Guggenheim Fellowship in to study in Munich; another Guggenheim in the mids took him to Rome. In late he became a professor at the University of Chicago Divinity School, eventually being named Shailer Mathews Professor of Theology, until his retirement in March While on sabbatical in , he taught at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands; in he taught at Kyoto University in Japan, his lecture series there focusing on the environmental perils of industrialization.

After his retirement he continued to lecture until at both the University of Virginia and Georgetown University.^[1] During this last period of his teaching career, he was also for three months a visiting professor at the Theology Division (now Divinity School) of Chung Chi College, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Death

He died of meningitis on November 19, , at the University of Virginia hospital in Charlottesville.^[1] He was

Theological work

Gilkey was a prolific author, with 15 books and over articles to his credit.^[4] Perhaps his most widely read book was the story of his own religious-theological journey.

In Shantung Compound: The Story of Men and Women Under Pressure (), Gilkey narrates his departure from the liberal Protestant belief system during World War II when he was made a prisoner of war in the "Civilian Internment Center" near Weixian for two-and-a-half years (–).

This experience was the basis for his modern interpretation of classical Reformation insights about individual and societal estrangement and self-delusion.

Gilkey's new theology of history rethought Christianity and traditional views on sin, free will, providence, grace, eschatology and secular history.^[4]

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

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

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He was an expert witness for the American Civil Liberties Union in the McLean v. Arkansas lawsuit against an Arkansas State law mandating the teaching of creation sciences in high schools.^[6]

His early books and articles demonstrated the existential power of his experiences, from his early pacifist professions as a student at Harvard University, where his classmates included, among others, future President John F.

Kennedy, Pete Seeger, and Cardinal Avery Dulles, to his teaching in China and his experiences as a POW.

His teachers, especially Niebuhr and Tillich, at Union Theological Seminary, helped him with methods and categories to formulate a powerful and creative theological vision of his own. In the s and s, Gilkey's theological vision was colored by the growth of Buddhism, and Sikhism as both religions began to influence religious life in America.

He held the view most world religions enjoyed "rough parity".

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"The question for our age," he once wrote, "may well become, not will religion survive, as much as will we survive and with what sort of religion, a creative or demonic one?"^[1]

Books

Maker of Heaven and Earth: The Christian Doctrine of Creation in the Light of Modern Knowledge ISBN&#;, OCLC&#;
Shantung Compound OCLC&#;
Naming the Whirlwind A Renewal of God Language OCLC&#;
Catholicism Confronts Modernity: A Protestant View ISBN&#;, OCLC&#;
Reaping the Whirlwind: A Christian Interpretation of History ISBN&#;, OCLC&#;
Message and Existence: An Introduction to Christian Theology ISBN&#;, OCLC&#;
Through the Tempest: Theological Voyages in a Pluralistic CultureISBN&#;, OCLC&#;
Nature, Reality, and the Sacred: The Nexus of Science and Religion Minneapolis, Minn.&#;: Fortress Press, ISBN&#;, OCLC&#;
Creationism on Trial: Evolution and God at Little Rock ISBN&#;, OCLC&#;
Religion and the Scientific Future: Reflections on Myth, Science, and TheologyISBN&#;, OCLC&#;
Contemporary Explosion of Theology: Ecumenical Studies in TheologyISBN&#;, OCLC&#;
Society and the Sacred: Toward a Theology of Culture in DeclineISBN&#;, OCLC&#;
Gilkey on Tillich ISBN&#;, OCLC&#;
Blue Twilight: Nature, Creationism, and American Religion
On Niebuhr: A Theological Study ISBN&#;, OCLC&#;

Notes

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

"Langdon Gilkey Dies; Theologian, Author, Educator". The Washington Post. p.&#;B
^Kyle A. Pasewark; Jeff B. Pool (1 December ). The Theology of Langdon B. Gilkey: Systematic and Critical Studies. Mercer University Press. pp.&#;13–. ISBN&#;. Retrieved 8 March
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In Elwell, Walter A (ed.). Evangelical Dictionary of Theology. Baker Reference Library. p.&#; ISBN&#;.

^ ^a^b^c^d"Gilkey, interpreted Niebuhr, Tillich, wrote on religion and science".
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The University of Chicago Chronicle. 24 (77). 6 January
^Fox, Margalit (26 November ). "Langdon Gilkey, 85, Theorist on Nexus of Faith and Science, Dies". New York Times.
^Gilkey, Langdon (). Creationism on Trial: Evolution and God at Little Rock.

University of Virginia Press. ISBN&#;.