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    The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness: A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of its Traditional Defense.Reinhold Niebuhr & Gary Dorrien - 2011 - University of Chicago Press.
    _The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness_, first published in 1944, is considered one of the most profound and relevant works by the influential theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, and certainly the fullest statement of his political philosophy. Written and first read during the prolonged, tragic world war between totalitarian and democratic forces, Niebuhr’s book took up the timely question of how democracy as a political system could best be defended. Most proponents of democracy, Niebuhr claimed, were “children of light,” (...)
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    Kantian reason and Hegelian spirit: the idealistic logic of modern theology.Gary Dorrien - 2012 - Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell.
    Introduction: Kantian concepts, liberal theology, and post-Kantian idealism -- Subjectivity in question: Immanuel Kant, Johann G. Fichte, and critical idealism -- Making sense of religion: Friedrich Schleiermacher, John Locke, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and liberal theology -- Dialectics of spirit: F.W.J. Schelling, G.W.F. Hegel, and absolute idealism -- Hegelian spirit in question: David Friedrich Strauss, Søren Kierkegaard, and mediating theology -- Neo-Kantian historicism: Albrecht Ritschl, Adolf von Harnack, Wilhelm Herrmann, Ernst Troeltsch, and the Ritschlian school -- Idealistic ordering: Lux Mundi, Andrew (...)
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    Naturalistic Empiricism as Process Theology.Gary Dorrien - 2023 - American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 44 (2):5-56.
    In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Naturalistic Empiricism as Process TheologyGary Dorrien (bio)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 (...)
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    Breaking White Supremacy: The Black Social Gospel as New Abolitionism.Gary Dorrien - 2016 - American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 37 (3):197-216.
    I apologize for not being William Connolly. You can get me any year, and I feel badly that Connolly had to cancel. I considered giving one of my Hegel and Whitehead talks, which would have been a poor substitute for the world of becoming that Connolly would have discussed. But nearly everyone who goes to AJTP gatherings has already heard me on things Hegelian and Whiteheadian, and I have a new book that means much more to me than those things. (...)
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    Nancy Fraser, Iris Marion Young, and the Intersections of Justice: Equality, Recognition, Participation, and Third Wave Feminism.Gary Dorrien - 2021 - American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 42 (3):5-34.
    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 union movements of the mid-nineteenth century and was appropriated in Catholic and Protestant social teaching. Essentially it was (...)
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    Post-Hegelian Becoming: Religious Philosophy as Entangled Discontent.Gary Dorrien - 2020 - American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 41 (1):5-31.
    Realistic theologies are keyed to what is said to be actual, reading knowledge of God and the aims of ethical action from the given. Idealistic theologies are keyed to claims about truths transcending actuality. I am opposed to lifting realistic actuality above idealistic discontent, even as I acknowledge that idealism poses the greater danger. A wholly realistic theology would be a monstrosity, a sanctification of mediocrity, inertia, oppression, domination, exclusion, and moral indifference. Christianity is inherently idealistic in describing the being (...)
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    Applied Christian Ethics: Foundations, Economic Justice, and Politics.Charles C. Brown, Randall K. Bush, Gary Dorrien, Guyton B. Hammond, Christian T. Iosso, Edward LeRoy Long, John C. Raines, Carol S. Robb, Samuel K. Roberts, Harlan Stelmach, Laura Stivers, Robert L. Stivers, Randall W. Stone, Ronald H. Stone & Matthew Lon Weaver (eds.) - 2014 - Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books.
    Applied Christian Ethics addresses selected themes in Christian social ethics. Part one shows the roots of contributors in the realist school; part two focuses on different levels of the significance of economics for social justice; and part three deals with both existential experience and government policy in war and peace issues.
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    American Democratic Socialism: History, Politics, Religion, and Theory.Gary Dorrien - 2021 - Yale University Press.
    _A sweeping, ambitious history of American democratic socialism from one of the world’s leading intellectual historians and social ethicists__ “The movement whose tangled history Gary Dorrien tells in _American Democratic Socialism_ has deep roots in the very ‘American’ values it is accused of undermining.... The version of the socialist left that emerges is one that deserves more attention.”—Hari Kunzru, _New York Review of Books__ Democratic socialism is ascending in the United States as a consequence of a widespread recognition that global (...)
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    » Benevolent Global Hegemony «: William Kristol and the Politics of American Empire.Gary Dorrien - 2004 - Logos. Anales Del Seminario de Metafísica [Universidad Complutense de Madrid, España] 3 (2).
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    Economy, Difference, Empire: Social Ethics for Social Justice.Gary J. Dorrien - 2010 - Columbia University Press.
    Sourcing the major traditions of progressive Christian social ethics—social gospel liberalism, Niebuhrian realism, and liberation theology—Gary Dorrien argues for the social-ethical necessity of social justice politics. In carefully reasoned essays, he focuses on three subjects: the ethics and politics of economic justice, racial and gender justice, and antimilitarism, making a constructive case for economic democracy, along with a liberationist understanding of racial and gender justice and an anti-imperial form of liberal internationalism. In Dorrien's view, the three major discourse traditions of (...)
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  11. Historicism as a Modern Theological Problem.Gary Dorrien - 2020 - In Herman Paul & Adriaan van Veldhuizen (eds.), Historicism: a travelling concept. London ; New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
     
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    Hegelian Spirit in Question: The Idealistic Spirit of Liberal Theology.Gary Dorrien - 2011 - American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 32 (1):3 - 22.
    My subject is the role of philosophical and social idealism in liberal theology, and I will argue that both are tremendously significant in the history of liberal theology and both are problematic, adaptable, and still important. There is no such thing as a vital or relevant progressive theology that does not speak with idealistic conviction, however problematic that may be. I am currently writing a large book on this topic, so some compression is necessary today.The book begins, as it must, (...)
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    In a post-Hegelian spirit: philosophical theology as idealistic discontent.Gary J. Dorrien - 2020 - Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press.
    Hegel broke open the deadliest assumptions of Western thought by conceiving being as becoming and consciousness as the social-subjective relation of spirit to itself, yet his white Eurocentric conceits were grotesquely inflated even by the standards of his time. With In a Post-Hegelian Spirit, Gary Dorrien emphasizes both sides of this Hegelian legacy, contending that it takes a great deal of digging and refuting to recover the parts of Hegel that still matter for religious thought. By distilling his signature argument (...)
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    In the Spirit of Hegel: Post-Kantian Subjectivity, the Phenomenology Of Spirit, and Absolute Idealism.Gary Dorrien - 2012 - American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 33 (3):200-223.
    The greatest philosopher of the modern experience, G. W. F. Hegel, was deeply rooted in Plato, Aristotle, and Spinoza, and he synthesized the riches of Kantian and post-Kantian idealism. He put dynamic panentheism into play in modern theology, and in some way he inspired nearly every great philosophical idea and movement of the past two centuries. Yet no thinker is as routinely misconstrued as Hegel, partly because his greatest work, the Phenomenology of Spirit, defies categorization and is notoriously hard to (...)
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    Kantian Concepts, Liberal Theology, and Post-Kantian Idealism.Gary Dorrien - 2012 - American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 33 (1):5.
    This essay is part of a larger project that explores the role of Kantian and post-Kantian idealism in founding modern theology. More specifically, it investigates the impact of Kantian and post-Kantian idealism in creating what came to be called "liberal" theology in Germany and "modernist" theology in Great Britain. My descriptive argument is implied in this description, which folds together with my normative argument: Modern religious thought originated with idealistic convictions about the spiritual ground and unifying reality of freedom, and (...)
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    Naturalism as a Theological Problem: Kant, Idealism, the Chicago School, and Corrington.Gary Dorrien - 2017 - American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 38 (1):49-69.
    My subject is the idea of naturalism in liberal theology, an idea that Robert Corrington has taken far beyond liberal Christianity and religion in his many brilliant books on aesthetic naturalism. I am going to tell this story in a way that leads to Corrington without saying that liberal theology itself leads to Corrington. Liberal theology, liberation theology, religious naturalism, and progressive Christian social ethics are precious to me, and these things are taught almost exclusively in liberal theological seminaries.The entire (...)
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    Neo-Hegelian Theology as Process Theodicy and Socialist Idealism.Gary Dorrien - 2020 - American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 41 (2-3):7-38.
    My commitment to a religious idealism that emphasizes struggle and tragedy, accepts liberationist criticism, and espouses democratic socialist politics shapes what I take from Hegel and Paul Tillich. Hegel is both alien to me and distinctly the thinker with whom I am never done. Karl Marx and Søren Kierkegaard scored against Hegel by emphasizing the situation of the knower, but both were one-sided compared to Hegel. Emmanuel Levinas scored against Hegel by railing against the constraints of ontology and upholding the (...)
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    Reading liberal theology.Gary Dorrien - 2011 - Modern Intellectual History 8 (2):457-470.
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    Religious Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Social Justice Struggle, and the Cross: Getting Martin Luther King, Jr., Right.Gary Dorrien - 2020 - Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2020 (193):57-68.
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    Social Democracy in the Making: Political and Religious Roots of European Socialism.Gary Dorrien - 2019 - Yale University Press.
    _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 intertwined legacies of Christian socialism and Social Democratic politics in Britain (...)
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    The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel.Gary J. Dorrien - 2015 - Yale University Press.
    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 Dorrien describes the early history of the black social gospel from its nineteenth-century founding to (...)
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    The Radical King: Democratic Socialism, Personal Idealism, Anti-Militarism, and Black Power.Gary Dorrien - 2018 - Telos: Critical Theory of the Contemporary 2018 (182):47-65.
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    True Religion, Mystical Unity, and the Disinherited: Howard Thurman and the Black Social Gospel.Gary Dorrien - 2018 - American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 39 (1):74-99.
    The black social gospel leaders that came of age in the 1920s and '30s were long on graduate degrees, simmering anger, racial justice ambition, and lecture circuit eloquence. Most of them already assumed the social gospel when they began their careers. They came through the doors of educational achievement and ecumenical conferences, and a few became prominent by compelling the respect of audiences on both sides of the color line. Mordecai Johnson, building a black intellectual powerhouse at Howard University, epitomized (...)
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    Dialectics of Difference: Barth, Whitehead, Modern Theology and the Uses of Worldviews.Gary Dorrien - 2009 - American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 30 (3):244 - 270.
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    Imagining empirical theology: D. C. MacIntosh, epistemological realism, and the chicago school of naturalistic empiricism.Gary Dorrien - 2003 - American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 24 (2):129 - 150.
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    Liberal Method, Postmodernity, and Liberal Necessity: On "The Making of American Liberal Theology".Gary Dorrien - 2008 - American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 29 (2):175 - 183.
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    Modernism as a Theological Problem: The Theological Legacy of Langdon Gilkey.Gary Dorrien - 2007 - American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 28 (1):64 - 94.
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    Metaphysics, Imagination and Creative Process: Bernard Meland and Chicago School Theology.Gary Dorrien - 2004 - American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 25 (3):199 - 224.
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    Modernisms in theology: Interpreting american liberal theology, 1805-1950.Gary Dorrien - 2002 - American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 23 (3):200 - 220.
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    Making Liberal Theology Metaphysical: Personalist Idealism as a Theological School.Gary Dorrien - 2003 - American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 24 (3):214 - 244.
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    Social Ethics in the Making: Method, History, White Supremacism, Social Salvation.Gary Dorrien - 2008 - American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 29 (2):123 - 145.
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    The Crisis and Necessity of Liberal Theology.Gary Dorrien - 2009 - American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 30 (1):3 - 23.
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    Theology of Spirit: Personalist Idealism, Nels F. S. Ferré, and the Universal Word.Gary Dorrien - 2006 - American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 27 (1):3 - 31.
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    Review of "The American Spiritual Culture: And the Invention of Jazz, Football and the Movies". [REVIEW]Gary Dorrien - 2004 - American Journal of Theology and Philosophy 25 (2):109 - 120.