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Biography of Langdon Brown Gilkey
Name: Langdon Brown Gilkey
Birth Date: February 9, 1919
Death Date: N/A
Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Nationality: American
Gender: Male
Occupations: theologian, author
Langdon Brown Gilkey
Langdon Brown Gilkey (born 1919) was the preeminent American ecumenical Protestant theologian in the last half of the 20th century. A thinker of diverse interests and profound existential, ethical, historical, and scientific insights, his theology mirrored the rise and fall of the dominant Protestant neo-orthodoxy of the middle years of this century and proposed a theological agenda for the new religious and cultural pluralism appearing on the horizon toward the end of the century.Langdon Brown Gilkey, Shailer Mathews Professor of Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School since 1977, formally retired in March 1989 after 25 years at the school where he taught with distinguished theologians and students of religion as Mircea Eliade, Bernard Loomer, Bernard Meland, Paul Ricoeur, Joseph Sittler, Paul Tillich, and David Tracy. 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 …showed first 150 words…
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…showed last 150 words…Profile of Langdon Gilkey," in Christian Century (April 12, 1989). The best single introduction to Gilkey's life and thought is the Festschrift, The Whirlwind in Culture, edited by Donald W. Musser and Joseph L. Price (1988), which contains a detailed autobiographical essay and a complete bibliography of Gilkey's work through 1985. Shantung Compound (1966) is the most popular and accessible guide to the existential roots of Gilkey's religious sensibility, and his theological methods are summarized in his short systematic theology Message and Existence (1979).For biographical resources about Langdon Gilkey see: Walsh, Brian J., Langdon Gilkey--Theologian for a Culture in Decline, 1991; Who's Who in America, 46th Edition, 1990-91; Who's Who in Religion, 4th Edition, 1992-93; and Sader, Marion, Reader's Advisor, 14th Edition, R.R. Bowker, 1994.For periodical articles about Langdon Gilkey see: Commonwealth, May 20, 1994.For on-line resources about Langdon Gilkey see: http://www2.uchicago.edu/divinity/fac.html and http://www.georgetown.edu/departments/theology/faculty/gilkeyl.
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