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Lessons to be Learned From Liberal Religion
Posted 7/13/2005
“Liberal Religion’s Living Legacy,” by Warren Goldstein, professor of history and chair of the history department, A&S, is the cover article in the July 8 Chronicle Review section of The Chronicle of Higher Education. Goldstein also had a related column published in the Minneapolis Star Tribune on July 7, the Hartford Courant on July 10, and the Miami Herald on July 12.
Despite the dramatic growth and increasing political power of evangelicals and fundamentalists, this country has a long history of religious liberalism, Goldstein writes in his essay. He wonders “whether the folks formerly known as liberal Protestants and their colleagues and counterparts among liberal politicians might gain some inspiration from the accomplishments of their own histories before giving up on what they might bring to the future.”
Read the full text of Goldstein’s essay.
Theological liberalism during the second half of the 20th century will be the subject of Goldstein’s fourth book. He was awarded a 2005-06 Vincent B. Coffin Grant from the university to work on the book. His most recent work is William Sloane Coffin Jr.: A Holy Impatience(Yale University Press, 2004.)
In the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Hartford Courant, Goldstein devotes his column to the vote by the governing body of the United Church of Christ (UCC) to affirm gay couples’ marriages, the first mainline denomination and the largest Christian denomination in the world to do so. Although right-wing talk radio will have a “field day” with the announcement, “they’ll be getting it wrong,” according to Goldstein. The real story, he writes, is the success of the message that “Jesus didn’t turn people away.” That message forms the basis for the UCC’s “God is Still Speaking” campaign and has contributed to a 10 percent increase in UCC church membership.
Read Goldstein’s column in the Star Tribune.
Despite the dramatic growth and increasing political power of evangelicals and fundamentalists, this country has a long history of religious liberalism, Goldstein writes in his essay. He wonders “whether the folks formerly known as liberal Protestants and their colleagues and counterparts among liberal politicians might gain some inspiration from the accomplishments of their own histories before giving up on what they might bring to the future.”
Read the full text of Goldstein’s essay.
Theological liberalism during the second half of the 20th century will be the subject of Goldstein’s fourth book. He was awarded a 2005-06 Vincent B. Coffin Grant from the university to work on the book. His most recent work is William Sloane Coffin Jr.: A Holy Impatience(Yale University Press, 2004.)
In the Minneapolis Star Tribune and Hartford Courant, Goldstein devotes his column to the vote by the governing body of the United Church of Christ (UCC) to affirm gay couples’ marriages, the first mainline denomination and the largest Christian denomination in the world to do so. Although right-wing talk radio will have a “field day” with the announcement, “they’ll be getting it wrong,” according to Goldstein. The real story, he writes, is the success of the message that “Jesus didn’t turn people away.” That message forms the basis for the UCC’s “God is Still Speaking” campaign and has contributed to a 10 percent increase in UCC church membership.
Read Goldstein’s column in the Star Tribune.
