Drawing on a wide
variety of disciplines,
the Project will explore
the necessary
relationship between
religion and progress,
based not on metaphysics
or cosmology, or on any
kind of traditional
theological reasoning,
but on an observation of
human behavior and an
acknowledgment of the
permanent and
ineradicable moral needs
of the human person. The
chief outcome of the
Project will be a
book-length manuscript
suitable for publication
by a major trade or
university press.
Wilfred M.
McClay holds
the SunTrust Bank Chair
of Excellence in
Humanities at the
University of Tennessee
at Chattanooga. He
is also a professor of
history at UTC. His book
The
Masterless: Self and
Society in Modern
America
(University of North
Carolina Press, 1994)
won the 1995 Merle Curti
Award of the
Organization of American
Historians for the best
book in American
intellectual history.
Among his other books
are The Student's
Guide to U.S. History
(ISI Books, 2001), the
edited volume Figures in
the Carpet: Finding
the Human Person in
the American Past
(Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2007),
and the co-edited volume
Religion
Returns to the Public
Square: Faith and
Policy in America (Woodrow
Wilson Center/Johns
Hopkins University
Press, 2003).
