{"id":37746,"date":"2019-08-01T10:35:37","date_gmt":"2019-08-01T14:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/?p=37746"},"modified":"2019-09-16T13:55:24","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T17:55:24","slug":"fall-2019-sth-lowell-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/fall-2019-sth-lowell-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall 2019 STH Lowell Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><span style=\"font-family: 'Calibri',sans-serif;color: black\">The Social Gospel in Black and White, Then and Now: Imagining Economic Democracy, Breaking White Supremacy\u00a0<\/span><\/h1>\n<h2>Featuring Gary Dorrien<\/h2>\n<h3>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/sth\/files\/2019\/09\/Dorrien-e1564670074322-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-37747 size-thumbnail\">Wednesday, October 2<\/h3>\n<h3>5:30pm<\/h3>\n<h3>STH Community Center<\/h3>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">var 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He was previously the Parfet Distinguished Professor at Kalamazoo College, where he taught for 18 years and also served as Dean of Stetson Chapel and Director of the Liberal Arts Colloquium.<\/p>\n<p>Professor Dorrien is the author of 20 books and more than 300 articles that range across the fields of social ethics, philosophy, theology, political economics, social and political theory, religious history, cultural criticism, and intellectual history. Philosopher Cornel West describes him as \u201cthe preeminent social ethicist in North America today.\u201d Philosopher Robert Neville calls him \u201cthe most rigorous theological historian of our time, moving from analyses of social context and personal struggles through the most abstruse theological and metaphysical issues.\u201d Philosopher Frederick Ferr\u00e9 describes him as \u201ca superstar interpreter of modern religious thought.\u201d Dorrien told an interviewer in 2016: \u201cI am a jock who began as a solidarity activist, became an Episcopal cleric at thirty, became an academic at thirty-five, and never quite settled on a field, so now I explore the intersections of too many fields.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2018 Dorrien won the Choice Award of the American Library Association for his book Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel, which Choice described as \u201cintellectual history at its finest\u2026A triumph of careful scholarship, rigorous argument, clear prose, unblinking judgments, and groundbreaking conclusions\u2026Indispensable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2017 Dorrien won the Grawemeyer Award for his book The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel. The citation quoted theologian William Stacy Johnson: \u201cThis is a magisterial treatment of a neglected stream of American religious history presented by one of this generation\u2019s premier interpreters of modern religious thought operating at the top of his game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2013 Dorrien won the Association of American Publishers\u2019 PROSE Award for his book Kantian Reason and Hegelian Spirit: The Idealistic Logic of Modern Theology. Theologian Catherine Keller wrote, \u201cThis is a brilliant and much needed book. Dorrien\u2019s magisterial achievements to date lend his voice a special authority, but in this book, the reader is simply compelled by the deft interplay of nuance and overview.\u201d Cyril O\u2019Regan, in Commonweal, added: \u201cIn its lucidity, comprehensiveness, and narrative power, Kantian Reason and Hegelian Spirit is without equal. One can only marvel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2010 Dorrien won the Choice Award for his book Social Ethics in the Making, which Choice described as \u201csimply the definitive history of Christian social ethics in the USA\u2026masterful, careful, and encyclopedic.\u201d The Christian Century characterized it as \u201cmagnificent, sprawling, monumental, captivating, expertly written, and exhaustively researched. Social Ethics in the Making will soon be recognized as a classic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More than 50 reviewers have described Dorrien\u2019s trilogy, The Making of American Liberal Theology, as the definitive work in the field. Religious philosopher Nancy Frankenberry, in The Expository Times, called it \u201can endeavor best described, by all accounts, as magisterial, definitive, and authoritative.\u201d Intellectual historian J. David Hoeveler, in Modern Intellectual History, said its \u201cmagnificent scholarship\u201d set a new standard for religious intellectual history. The Journal of Markets and Morality called it \u201cmonumental, encyclopedic, breathtaking.\u201d Theologian William Placher, reviewing volume three in The Christian Century, observed: \u201cThis book completes a magnificent scholarly accomplishment, drawing on published works, reviews, unpublished correspondence, manuscripts and interviews. He seems to have read everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dorrien has focused on economic democracy and social justice politics, post-Kantian philosophy, and modern theology throughout his career. His early books on these subjects include Reconstructing the Common Good (1990), The Neoconservative Mind: Politics, Culture, and the War of Ideology (1992), Soul in Society: The Making and Renewal of Social Christianity (1995), The Word as True Myth (1997), and The Barthian Revolt in Modern Theology (2000).<\/p>\n<p>Three of Dorrien\u2019s books on social justice topics derive from his lecturing at universities, conferences, civic groups, and religious communities. Imperial Designs (2004) grew out of his extensive speaking against the U.S.\u2019s invasion and occupation of Iraq. Economy, Difference, Empire: Social Ethics for Social Justice (2010) features his lectures on economic democracy, racial and gender justice, and anti-imperial politics. 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His wife, Brenda Biggs, a Presbyterian minister, died of cancer in 2000; his partner Eris McClure is a fitness trainer; and his daughter Sara Biggs Dorrien-Christians and son-in-law William Christians are Presbyterian pastors in Memphis, Tennessee.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Social Gospel in Black and White, Then and Now: Imagining Economic Democracy, Breaking White Supremacy\u00a0 Featuring Gary Dorrien Wednesday, October 2 5:30pm STH Community Center \u00a0 \u00a0 Gary Dorrien teaches social ethics, theology, and philosophy of religion as the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1603,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[210,200],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37746"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1603"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37746"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37746\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38237,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37746\/revisions\/38237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/sth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}