Theme: Responding to a Fractured World: Re-think, Re-act, Re-create

Topic: Becoming a Theologian: How I Got Like This

Presenter(s): Gary Dorrien

This talk is a memoir of my early life as an autodidactic bumpkin jock, my education and early career as a solidarity organizer, and my second-career move into the academy as an unlikely theological scholar.

About the Presenter(s)

Gary Dorrien teaches at Union Theological Seminary and Columbia University. His many books include Kantian Reason and Hegelian Spirit: The Idealistic Logic of Modern Theology, which won the PROSE Award; The New Abolition: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel, which won the Grawemeyer Award; and three books that won the American Library Association award: Social Ethics in the Making; Breaking White Supremacy: Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel; and American Democratic Socialism: History, Politics, Religion, and Theory. This lecture will spin a thread from his recently published memoir, Over from Union Road: My Christian-Left-Intellectual Life.