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Gary Dorrien
July 7 - 11, 2008
The Reinhold Niebuhr Professor
of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary, Gary Dorrien
is also Professor of Religion at Columbia University. An Episcopal
priest, he was previously the Parfet Distinguished Professor
at Kalamazoo College, where he taught for 18 years and also served
as Dean of Stetson Chapel. He is the author of 12 books and
approximately 150 articles that range across the fields of ethics,
social theory, theology, philosophy, politics, and history. Praised
repeatedly for their intellectual creativity, immense erudition,
and stylish prose, they include three books on economic democracy
and social ethics, two widely acclaimed books on political neo-conservatism,
and a trilogy titled The Making of American Liberal Theology:
(I) Imagining Progressive Religion; (II) Idealism and Realism
in Modernity, 1900-2003; (III) Crisis, Irony, and Post-modernity,
1950-2003. His three volumes on American theological liberalism
are considered the definitive works in the field.
Described as the most rigorous
theological historian of our time, Professor Dorrien moves from
analyses of social context and personal struggles through the
most abstruse theological and metaphysical issues. A frequent
lecturer at universities, divinity schools, conferences, civic
groups, and religious gatherings, he speaks for the Distinguished
Lecturers Program of the Organization of American Historians
and is a recent past president of the American Theological Society.
Author of Imperial Designs, Professor Dorrien has a long record
of involvement in social justice, human rights, environmental
and anti-war organizations. |
