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Life and Thought of Bernard Eugene Meland, American Constructive Theologian, 1899-1993 (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Life and Thought of Bernard Eugene Meland, American Constructive Theologian, 1899-1993 (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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This book deals with Bernard Eugene Meland's "life" (as presented
in his unpublished intellectual autobiography) and "thought" as a
constructive theologian who taught in the Divinity School of The
University of Chicago (1945-64). When Meland was in the process of
completing his doctoral studies at the University of Chicago, he
came into close association with Henry Nelson Wieman who was
joining the faculty. Meland took the first course Wieman offered in
which they read William Ernest Hocking's The Meaning of God in
Human Experience (Part IV) and Whitehead's Religion in the Making.
He audited Wieman's other courses. The philosophy of A. N.
Whitehead played a large role in their relationship and theology.
With the sudden death of G. B. Smith, Wieman became Meland's
doctoral advisor. After completing the doctoral program, Meland
spent the next year at Marburg University in Germany studying with
Rudolf Otto. He came away from this experience having discovered
that the stimulus and lure in the language of the arts had become
for him an alternative to the moral way of expressing value,
sensibility, and fulfillment of human experience. He returned from
Europe to begin teaching at Central College in Missouri and in 1936
joined the faculty at Pomona College in Claremont, California. His
association with Wieman continued in the 1930s as they co-authored
American Philosophies of Religion (1936). While teaching at Central
College, Meland authored Modern Man's Worship (1934), and at Pomona
College published Write Your Own Ten Commandments (1938), and The
Church and Adult Education (1939).In 1945, Meland joined Wieman at
the Divinity School as Professor of Constructive Theology. Although
Wieman soon retired, their connection continued throughout Wieman's
life. The Second World War had concluded and Meland was in a state
of anguish and despair over the war and especially by the atomic
bomb. In this troubled state of mind he published Seeds of
Redemption (1947), America's Spiritual Culture (1948), and The
Reawakening of Christian Faith (1949). His next two publications
were Higher Education and the Human Spirit (1953) and Faith and
Culture (1955), with the latter considered by many as his most
important work. While teaching at Chicago, Meland twice served
twice as The Barrows Lectures in India. His lectures in 1957-58
were published as The Realities of Faith (1962). In 1963-64, he
continued his theme of the relationship between faith and culture
by focusing on the impact of secularization on modern cultures.
These lectures were published as The Secularization of Modern
Cultures (1966). His last book was Fallible Forms and Symbols
(1977).In the first section of this book, Meland's "thought" is
considered under four headings: Metaphysical View, Method, Doctrine
of God, and View of Religion, followed by an evauation. Section two
is devoted to his "Later Writings," followed by a conclusion.
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