The Uncertain Center
Essays of Arthur C. McGill
Arthur C. McGill
Edited by Kent Dunnington
Foreword by David Cain
Afterword by Stanley Hauerwas
THE UNCERTAIN CENTER
Essays of Arthur C. McGill
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McGill, Arthur C.
The Uncertain Center : essays of Arthur C. McGill / Arthur C. McGill.
xxviii + 190 p. ; 23 cm. —
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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1. Death—Religious aspects—Christianity. 2. Suffering—Religious aspects—Christianity. 3. Theology. I. Title.
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“The Twilight World of Popular Songs” by Arthur C. McGill from: Religious Education 49.6 (1954) 382–88. Reprinted by permission of Taylor & Francis LLC (http://www.tandfonline.com).
“Reason in a Violent World” by Arthur C. McGill, originally published by Wesleyan University Press, 1959. Reprinted by permission of Lucille McGill.
“The End of Intimacy” by Arthur C. McGill, originally published by the Christian Faith and Higher Education Institute, 1965. Reprinted by permission of Lucille McGill.
“The Education of the Specialists” by Arthur C. McGill from: The Christian Scholar continued as Soundings, vol. 49.1 (1966) 24–32. Copyright © 1966 by The Pennsylvania State University Press. Reprinted by permission of The Pennsylvania State University Press.
“The Death of God and All That” by Arthur C. McGill from: C. W. Christian and Glenn R. Wittig, eds., Radical Theology: Phase Two, copyright © 1967. Reprinted by permission of C.W. Christian.
“Critique II” by Arthur C. McGill from: Theology Today 25.3 (1968) 317–19. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications Ltd.
“Is Private Charity Coming to an End?” by Arthur C. McGill from: Vanguard: A Bulletin for Church Officers 6.2 (1969) 3–6, 16. Copyright © 1969 Board of Christian Education of The United Presbyterian Church in the United States of America. Used with permission.
“The Ambiguous Position of Christian Theology” by Arthur C. McGill from: Paul Ramsey and John F. Wilson, eds., The Study of Religion in Colleges and Universities. Copyright © 1970, 1998 Princeton University Press. Reprinted by permission of Princeton University Press.
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About The Uncertain Center: Essays of Arthur C. McGillArthur McGill did not write very much, but what he did write is as theologically suggestive and startling today as it was when it was written in the 1960s and 1970s. He was not well known during his lifetime, but those who cared about the work of theology knew Arthur McGill. Writing during the ascendency of the "Death of God" theologies, McGill's words have a freshness that the more widely known theological writing of that time has lost. McGill wrote only two short books during his life, and just a handful of scattered essays, often published in obscure places. We are fortunate that Kent Dunnington has collected and introduced those essays here. The essays reveal a theologian with an uncanny and intrepid resolve to make theological claims illumine and unsettle our lives. As Stanley Hauerwas writes in his afterword to the collection, "To read McGill is to discover a way to do theology without fear. God knows from where he came, but McGill, as the chapters in this welcome and important book demonstrate, had the ability to make theology do work so that we might better negotiate the imponderable reality we call 'our life.'" |
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