Book Comment: Makers of Christian Theology in America

Makers of Christian Theology in America (1997) is a massive collection of biographical information from the earliest days leading up to the founding of the United States and continues up to the present.  Hundreds of theologians are included from every religious persuasion, though it seems that there is a heavy emphasis on theological liberalism.

This would be expected since it is the more liberal religious traditions which are classified as “mainstream” by American academia and the majority of the American press.

The multitude of listings include: Cotton Mather, John Wesley, John Calvin, Jonathan Edwards,  Thomas Hooker, Roger Williams, Lemuel Haynes, Lyman Beecher, Horace Bushnell,  Orestes Augustus Brownson, William James, Francis Elizabeth Willard, Harry Emerson Fosdick, Edgar Young Mullins, Walter Ruaschenbusch, Herschel H. Hobbs, Dwight L. Moody, J. Gresham Machen, Helmut Richard Niebuhr, Reinhold Niebuhr, Paul Tillich, J. Deotis Roberts, Dorothy M. Day, Thomas Merton, Carter Heyward, and Martin Luther King, Jr.