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Gary Dorrien

Gary Dorrien teaches at Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University. His many books include, most recently, Kantian Reason and Hegelian Spirit: The Idealistic Logic of Modern Theology, which won the Association of American Publishers PROSE Award in 2013, and The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel, which won the Grawemeyer Award in 2017.

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Irony Repeats Itself: Reconsidering Reinhold Niebuhr in the Trump Era

For the third time in this young century, Reinhold Niebuhr is getting another splash of attention. It happened last in 2008, when presidential candidate Barack Obama said that Niebuhr had deeply…
Gary Dorrien
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Religion Dispatches

What We Don't Know About Black Social Gospel: A Long-Neglected Tradition Is Reclaimed

For twenty years I have sprinkled discussions of the black social gospel into various books while imploring scholars that we need a book on this tradition. Finally I applied the imploring to myself…
Gary Dorrien
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Religion Dispatches

The Protestant Mainline Makes a (Literary) Comeback

Even with depleted social policy and outreach organizations, liberal Protestant denominations continue to address issues pertaining to war, intervention, and foreign policy; debt relief, foreign aid, and economic development; white supremacism, racial justice, and affirmative action; women’s rights, gay and lesbian issues, reproductive rights, and child welfare; acid rain, ozone depletion, bio-diversity, and eco-justice; and much more.
Gary Dorrien
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