Langdon Gilkey
Langdon Brown Gilkey (born February 9, 1919 in Chicago , † November 19, 2004 in Charlottesville ) was an American Protestant ecumenical theologian and professor at various international universities.
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Gilkey was a maternal grandson of Clarence Talmadge Brown (* 1860), the first Protestant pastor in a Salt Lake City ward . His father was Charles Whitney Gilkey (1882–1968), a liberal theologian and the first dean of the University of Chicago Rockefeller Chapel. His mother was Geraldine Gunsaulus Brown (1889–1955) a well-known feminist and director of the YWCA .
Gilkey attended the University of Chicago Laboratory School Elementary School and graduated from the Asheville School for Boys in North Carolina in 1936 . In 1940 he earned his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy with magna cum laude at Harvard University , where he lived during his first year in Grays Hall. The following year he went to China to teach English at Yanjing University , and was subsequently imprisoned by the Japanese during World War II in 1943 , first under house arrest at the university and later in a detention center near the city Weifang held captive in Shantung Province. There was Eric Liddell also interned .
After the Second World War, Gilkey received his doctorate in religious studies from Columbia University in New York and was mentored by Reinhold Niebuhr as a mentor and teaching assistant. He was a Fulbright scholar at Cambridge University , where he spent the period from 1950 to 1951. He was then from 1951 to 1954 professor at Vassar College and then from 1954 to 1963 at the Vanderbilt Divinity School . In 1960 he received a Guggenheim grant to study in Munich . Another Guggenheim scholarship in the mid-1970s took him to Rome . In late 1963 he became a professor at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago . He was finally appointed Shailer Mathews Professor of Theology until his retirement in March 1989 . During a sabbatical year in 1970 he taught at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands . In 1975 he taught at the Japanese University of Kyoto . In his lecture series there, he dealt with the environmental dangers of industrialization . After his retirement he lectured at the University of Virginia and Georgetown University until 2001 . In this last period of his teaching activity he was a visiting professor at the Theological Department (now Divinity School) of Chung Chi College, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong .
In 1994 Gilkey was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .
Publications (selection)
- Naming the Whirlwind A Renewal of God Language. 1970.
- Catholicism Confronts Modernity: A Protestant View. 1975. ISBN 978-0-8164-1163-4 .
- Reaping the Whirlwind: A Christian Interpretation of History. 1976. ISBN 978-0-8164-0308-0 .
- Message and Existence: An Introduction to Christian Theology. 1979. ISBN 978-0-8164-0450-6 .
- Through the Tempest: Theological Voyages in a Pluralistic Culture. ISBN 978-0-8006-2484-2 .
- Nature, Reality, and the Sacred: The Nexus of Science and Religion. Fortress Press, Minneapolis, Minn. 1993. ISBN 978-0-8006-2754-6 .
- Creationism on Trial: Evolution and God at Little Rock. 1985. ISBN 978-0-8139-1854-9 .
- Religion and the Scientific Future: Reflections on Myth, Science, and Theology. ISBN 978-0-86554-030-9 .
- Contemporary Explosion of Theology: Ecumenical Studies in Theology. ISBN 978-0-8108-0794-5 .
- Society and the Sacred: Toward a Theology of Culture in Decline. ISBN 978-0-8245-0089-4 .
- Who made heaven and earth. Claudius-Verlag, Munich 1971, ISBN 3-532-71232-6
literature
- Kyle A. Pasewark, Jeff B. Pool: The Theology of Langdon B. Gilkey: Systematic and Critical Studies. Mercer University Press, 1999
- Joseph L. Price : The Ultimate and the Ordinary: A Profile of Langdon Gilkey. Religion Online, the article appeared in Christian Century, April 12, 1989, p. 380 ( [4] on religion-online.org)
Web links
- Photography by Langdon Brown Gilkey Langdon Brown Gilkey
- Photograph by Langdon Brown Gilkey on media.gettyimages.com [5]
Individual evidence
- ^ Margalit Fox: Langdon Gilkey, 85, Theorist on Nexus of Faith and Science, Dies November 26, 2004 New York Times [1]
- ↑ Langdon Brown Gilkey, 2019 Encyclopedia.com [2]
- ↑ Geraldine Gunsaulus Brown Gilkey, 2020 Find a Grave [3]
- ↑ Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter G. (PDF; 931 kB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved June 29, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gilkey, Langdon |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Gilkey, Langdon Brown (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American theologian, religious scholar, university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 9, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 19, 2004 |
| Place of death | Charlottesville |