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  • Breaking White Supremacy

    Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel

    by Gary Dorrien ...
    The award–winning author of The New Abolition continues his history of black social gospel with this study of its influence on the Civil Rights movement.The civil rights movement was one of the most searing developments in modern American history. It abounded with noble visions, resounded with magnificent rhetoric, and ended in nightmarish despair. It won a few legislative victories and had a ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Children of Light and the Children of Darkness

    A Vindication of Democracy and a Critique of Its Traditional Defense

    by Reinhold Niebuhr ...
    "[A] brilliant and creative vindication of democracy . . . a theology of Western culture which remains intellectually unsurpassed." —Larry Rasmussen in Reinhold Niebuhr: Theologian of Public LifeThe 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 ... Read more

    $18.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Social Democracy in the Making

    Political and Religious Roots of European Socialism

    by Gary Dorrien ...
    An expansive and ambitious intellectual history of democratic socialism from one of the world’s leading intellectual historians and social ethicistsThe 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 ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Spirit of American Liberal Theology

    A History

    by Gary Dorrien ...
    The Spirit of American Liberal Theology is an interpretation of the entire U.S. American tradition of liberal theology. A highly condensed and far-more-accessible summary of Gary Dorrien’s three-volume trilogy, The Making of American Liberal Theology (Westminster John Knox Press 2001, 2003, and 2006), Dorrien here presses the argument that the most abundant, diverse, and persistent tradition of ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Over from Union Road

    My Christian-Left-Intellectual Life

    by Gary Dorrien ...
    Gary Dorrien, the renowned social ethicist, theologian, and intellectual historian whose many books are routinely described as magisterial and definitive, in this book turns to interpret his own life as a participant in the religious, intellectual, and social justice currents of his generation. Dorrien tells his personal story of growing up in a working-class family in mid-Michigan, fixing on the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • The New Abolition

    W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel

    by Gary Dorrien ...
    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 ... Read more

    $36.99 USD

  • In a Post-Hegelian Spirit

    Philosophical Theology as Idealistic Discontent

    by Gary Dorrien ...
    Gary Dorrien expounds in this book the religious philosophy underlying his many magisterial books on modern theology, social ethics, and political philosophy. His constructive position is liberal-liberationist and post-Hegelian, reflecting his many years of social justice activism and what he calls "my dance with Hegel." Hegel, he argues, broke open the deadliest assumptions of Western thought by ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Kantian Reason and Hegelian Spirit

    The Idealistic Logic of Modern Theology

    by Gary Dorrien ...
    Winner: 2012 The American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in Theology and Religious Studies, PROSE Award.In this thought-provoking new work, the world renowned theologian Gary Dorrien reveals how Kantian and post-Kantian idealism were instrumental in the foundation and development of modern Christian theology.Presents a radical rethinking of the roots of modern ... Read more

    $45.00 USD

  • Assembling Futures

    Economy, Ecology, Democracy, and Religion

    by Jennifer Quigley, Catherine Keller, Gary Dorrien, Paulina Ochoa Espejo, Marion Grau, Eunchul Jung, Hilary McKane, Marcia Pally, Joerg Rieger0, Daniel A. Siedell1, Devin Singh2 ...
    Series series Transdisciplinary Theological Colloquia
    Transdisciplinary insights at the intersection of religion, democracy, ecology, and economyWhat is the relationship of religion to economy, ecology, and democracy? In our fraught moment, what critical questions of religion may help to assembly democratic processes, ecosystems, and economic structures differently? What possible futures might emerge from transdisciplinary work across these ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • American Democratic Socialism

    History, Politics, Religion, and Theory

    by Gary Dorrien ...
    A sweeping, ambitious history of American democratic socialism from one of the world’s leading intellectual historians and social ethicists“Dorrien is supremely qualified for the task he has set himself in this very thoughtful, necessary, and timely book.”—Maurice Isserman, author of The Other American: The Life of Michael HarringtonDemocratic socialism is ascending in the United States as a ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • A Darkly Radiant Vision

    The Black Social Gospel in the Shadow of MLK

    by Gary Dorrien ...
    The third and final volume in the first comprehensive history of Black social Christianity, by the “greatest theological ethicist of the twenty-first century” (Michael Eric Dyson)The Black social gospel is a tradition of unsurpassed and ongoing importance in American life, argues Gary Dorrien in his groundbreaking trilogy on the history of Black social Christianity. This concluding volume, an ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • The Obama Question

    A Progressive Perspective

    by Gary Dorrien ...
    The election of Barack Obama to the presidency in 2008 was hailed by many as a historic event and by some as the end of the Reagan era in American politics. But conservatives have condemned Obama from the beginning of his presidency, and many progressives charge that Obama has betrayed the causes that he espoused in 2008.This book offers a brilliant critique of Obama's presidency and a powerful ... Read more

    $47.79 USD