Religion of Tomorrow: A New Edition with an Introduction Including Interpretive and Explanatory Notes
Ebook
Published in 1943 amidst the distractions of World War II, Religion of Tomorrow never received the proper recognition it deserved. Now some eighty years later, poet-philosopher John Elof Boodin's manifesto for a popular Christian renaissance is more necessary than ever. With an informative historical/biographical introduction and more than one hundred textual notes, editor Michael A. Flannery presents Boodin's spiritual roadmap for a new audience to listen and follow the divine lure towards greater creativity and fulfillment--to "learn by living." Boodin invites readers to embark upon their own Christian journeys with the poets and sages of the ages at their side. Here Boodin becomes the informed travel guide--well-equipped with the knowledge of history, the tools of science, the sensibilities of a poet, and the empathy of a fellow traveler to be encouraged as was Joshua to "be strong and courageous. Do not be frightened, and do not be dismayed, for the Lord your God is with you wherever you go."
“In this carefully contextualized critical edition of John Elof Boodin’s Religion of Tomorrow, Michael A. Flannery introduces readers to a fascinating religious thinker and invites them to consider his noteworthy contributions to process theology. Flannery’s impeccable editorial work informs without distracting, and leaves readers longing to know more about Boodin and his work. It is a must-read for anyone interested in historical theology.”
—Rachel Cope, associate professor of church history and doctrine, Brigham Young University
“John Elof Boodin was well ahead of his time—and ours. Recognizing that the Second World War would leave the world in spiritual crisis, he boldly took the religion that now had no destiny and provided a version of that religion that could have a future. Nearly all subsequent thinkers believed that pressing into the future requires an abandonment of older values, while Boodin saw how those practices continue to make us what we are, and we need not forsake our past in order to claim a common destiny for religious life.”
—Randall E. Auxier, professor of philosophy and creative communication, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
- Title: Religion of Tomorrow: A New Edition with an Introduction Including Interpretive and Explanatory Notes
- Authors: John Elof. Boodin, Michael A. Flannery
- Publisher: Wipf and Stock
- Print Publication Date: 2024
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9798385211890, 9798385211883, 9798385211876
- Resource ID: LLS:9798385211890
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2024-04-16T01:36:29Z
Swedish-born John Elof Boodin (1869–1950) emigrated to America in 1887 and entered Harvard ten years later. He earned his PhD under the idealist philosopher Josiah Royce and became close with the great American pragmatist William James. Under these two influences Boodin synthesized a unique metaphysic, the basis of his forward-looking process theology. Presented in Three Interpretations of the Universe and God and Creation, this book (his last) is the capstone of that Christ-centered trilogy.
Michael A. Flannery is professor emeritus of UAB Libraries at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. He is the author of America’s Forgotten Poet-Philosopher: The Thought of John Elof Boodin in His Time and Ours (2023).