Langdon gilkey biography of christopher

"26 Being and nonbeing both qualify or, rather, issue from the self-emptying of divine love.

When Langdon Gilkey began his engagement with religion and science, the primary concern was the implication of contemporary science for religious faith.

When Langdon Gilkey began his engagement with religion and sci- ence, the primary concern was the implication of contemporary sci- ence for religious faith.

I wish you were a Chris- tian theologian.

Langdon Gilkey is the Shailer Mathews Professor of Theology at the University of history and to its own relations to the rest of life-a quite extraordinary.

When Langdon Gilkey began his engagement with religion and sci- ence, the primary concern was the implication of contemporary sci- ence for religious faith.!

Gilkey, Langdon (Brown) 1919-2004

OBITUARY NOTICE— See index for CA sketch: Born February 9, 1919, in Chicago, IL; died of meningitis November 19, 2004, in Charlottesville, VA.

Theologian, educator, and author. A humanist and pacifist, Gilkey was a leading Protestant theologian who often wrote on issues involving the secularism-versus-religion debate in the modern era. Earning his undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1940, he was greatly influenced by the beliefs of Reinhold Niebuhr, whom he heard speak at the chapel at Harvard.

Traveling to China to teach English in 1940, he was caught off guard the next year by the Japanese invasion.

THE CHRISTIAN AND HISTORY: STRUCTURE OR PROCESS?

Captured, he spent the next five years in a Japanese interment camp. He later wrote about his experience there in his Shantung Compound: The Story of Men and Women under Pressure (1966). With the war over, he went back to school to study international law.

Finding the subject not to his taste, however, he switched to theology and co