A Preface to Theology

by W. Clark Gilpin

Book Overview

At a time of widespread perplexity about the social role of humanistic scholarship, few disciplines are as anxious about their nature and purposes as academic theology. In this important work, W. Clark Gilpin, dean of the University of Chicago Divinity School, proposes that American theological scholarship become responsible to a threefold public: the churches, the academic community, and civil society.

Gilpin approaches this goal indirectly,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226294005
• ISBN13: 9780226294001
• Release Date: November 1996
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.4"