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Title: Empirical Tradition in American Liberal Religious Thought, 1860-1960

Empirical Tradition in American Liberal Religious Thought, 1860-1960

by W. Creighton Peden (Author)
©2010 Monographs XII, 298 Pages
Theology & Philosophy
Series: American Liberal Religious Thought, Volume 10

Summary

This book introduces the empirical tradition in American liberal religious thought, from 1860 to 1960, by exploring the thought of significant individual contributors. The first section focuses on four participants in the Free Religious Association of 1867, which supported free religion, the scientific method, and evolution: F. E. Abbot, W. J. Potter, D. A. Wasson, and M. J. Savage. The second section focuses on the empirical tradition as expressed by eight scholars from the eight scholars from the «Chicago School» in American liberal religious thought: S. Mathews, G. B. Foster, E. S. Ames, G. B. Smith, S. J. Case, A. E. Haydon, H. N. Wieman, and B. E. Meland.

Details

Pages
XII, 298
Publication Year
2010
ISBN (PDF)
9781453904794
ISBN (Hardcover)
9781433108099
DOI
10.3726/978-1-4539-0479-4
Language
English
Publication date
2009 (December)
Keywords
Schule von Chicago (Theologie) Geschichte 1860-1960 Religion, Philosophy, History, Theology, Free Rel Religion Philosophy History Free Religious Association Theology
Published
New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2010. XII, 298 pp.

Biographical notes

W. Creighton Peden (Author)

The Author: W. Creighton Peden received a B.A. from Davidson College, an M.A. from the University of Chicago, and Ph.D. from St. Andrews University, Scotland. He is the Fuller E. Callaway Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Augusta State University. Peden served as the founding president of the Highlands Institute for American Religious and Philosophical Thought, 1987-2008. He is the author of Wieman’s Empirical Process Philosophy (1977); co-editor of H. N. Wieman’s Creative Freedom: Vocation of Liberal Religion (1982); co-editor of H. N. Wieman’s Science Serving Faith (1987); co-author of Whitehead’s View of Reality (1981); author of The Chicago School: Voices of Liberal Religious Thought (1987); co-editor of The Chicago School of Theology: Pioneers in Religious Inquiry, Vol. I–II (1996); and author of The Philosopher of Free Religion: Francis Ellingwood Abbot, 1836-1903 (1992).

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