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Gary John Dorrien is an American social ethicist and theologian. He is the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York and Professor of Religion at Columbia University, both in New York City, and the author of 18 books on ethics, social theory, philosophy, theology, politics, and intellectual history. Prior to joining the faculty at Union and Columbia in 2005, Dorrien taught at Kalamazoo College in Michigan, where he served as Parfet Distinguished Professor and as Dean of Stetson Chapel. An Episcopal priest, he has taught as the Paul E. Raither Distinguished Scholar at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut and as Horace De Y. Lentz Visiting Professor at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
History, Politics, Religion, and Theory
2021
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Black Social Gospel
2018
Social Ethics for Social Justice
2010
Neoconservatism and the New Pax Americana
2004
The Idealistic Logic of Modern Theology
2012
Political and Religious Roots of European Socialism
2019
Interpreting an American Tradition
2008
Theology without Weapons
1999
Idealism, Realism, and Modernity, 1900-1950
2003
Crisis, Irony, and Postmodernity, 1950-2005 by Gary Dorrien
2006
W. E. B. Du Bois and the Black Social Gospel
2015
1998
Imagining progressive religion, 1805-1900
2001