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. . . A remarkable achievement. Dorrien's comparative look at the communitarian and democratic strands in religious social thought throughout the twentieth century breaks creative and original ground in religious studies and political theory alike. --Harry Boyte, Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, University of Minnesota In the post-Reagan years it is surely time to reconstruct a sound theological basis for dealing with the larger social whoe. . . . An important book. --Harvey Cox, Harvard Divinity School With his careful, thorough scholarship, his cogent, honest criticism, and hte moderate tone of his lucid prose, Gary Dorrien has written a book . . . that will help keep alive the vision of a cooperative commonwealth. --Perspectives . . . A first-rate, important work about the history and theory of modern Christian socialism. . . . Powerful, scholarly, human. --The Book Reader The unusual conciseness and clarity in this treatment of liberation and political theologies will commend [this] book for undergraduate studies. --Theological Book Review

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Gary J. Dorrien is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary and Professor of Religion at Columbia University. An Episcopal priest, he was previously the Parfet Distinguished Professor at Kalamazoo College, where he taught for eighteen years and also served as Dean of Stetson Chapel. He is also the author of Logic and Consciousness and The Democratic Socialist Vision.

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