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<p><b>Shailer Mathews</b> (* <a href="26._Mai" title="26. Mai">26. Mai</a> <a href="1863" title="1863">1863</a> in <a href="Portland_(Maine)" title="Portland (Maine)">Portland (Maine)</a>; † <a href="23._Oktober" title="23. Oktober">23. Oktober</a> <a href="1941" title="1941">1941</a> in <a href="Chicago" title="Chicago">Chicago</a>) war ein bedeutender Vertreter der US-amerikanischen <a href="Liberale_Theologie" title="Liberale Theologie">liberalen Theologie</a> und der <a href="Social_Gospel" title="Social Gospel">Social Gospel Bewegung</a>.
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<p>Mathews, der Sohn eines Kaufmanns, studierte <a href="Theologie" title="Theologie">Theologie</a>, <a href="Geschichte" title="Geschichte">Geschichte</a> und <a href="National%C3%B6konomie" class="mw-redirect" title="Nationalökonomie">Nationalökonomie</a>. Ab 1887 war er Professor für <a href="Rhetorik" title="Rhetorik">Rhetorik</a> am Colby College, ab 1889 daselbst Professor für Geschichte und <a href="Politische_%C3%96konomie" title="Politische Ökonomie">Politische Ökonomie</a>. Von 1894 an lehrte er bis zu seiner Emeritierung an der Divinity School der neugegründeten <a href="University_of_Chicago" title="University of Chicago">University of Chicago</a> als Professor für verschiedene theologische Disziplinen (1894–97 <a href="Neues_Testament" title="Neues Testament">Neues Testament</a>, 1897–1905 <a href="Systematische_Theologie" title="Systematische Theologie">Systematische Theologie</a>, 1906–33 Historische und Vergleichende Theologie).
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<p>Mathews gilt als einer der Begründer der theologischen <i>Chicago School</i> und als wichtiger Vertreter der Social-Gospel-Bewegung. Als liberaler Theologe bemühte er sich um die Anwendung streng wissenschaftlicher Methoden in der Theologie. Mathews, der selbst Baptist war, engagierte sich in der <a href="%C3%96kumenische_Bewegung" title="Ökumenische Bewegung">ökumenischen Bewegung</a>. Von 1912 bis 1916 war er Präsident des <a href="National_Council_of_Churches" title="National Council of Churches"><i>Federal Council of Churches in America</i></a>.
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<p>An der <i>Divinity School</i> der University of Chicago besteht eine nach ihm benannte Professur für <a href="Neues_Testament" title="Neues Testament">Neues Testament</a> und frühchristliche Literatur, die unter anderem <a href="Langdon_Gilkey" title="Langdon Gilkey">Langdon Gilkey</a>, <a href="Hans_Dieter_Betz_(Theologe)" title="Hans Dieter Betz (Theologe)">Hans Dieter Betz</a> und der zeit (bis 2020) Margaret M. Mitchell innehatten.
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<ul><li><i>The Social Teachings of Jesus</i>, 1897</li>
<li><i>A History of New Testament Times in Palestine</i>, 1899</li>
<li><i>The French Revolution</i>, 1900</li>
<li><i>The Messianic Hope in the New Testament</i>, 1905</li>
<li><i>The Church and the Changing Order</i>, 1907</li>
<li><i>The Social Gospel</i>, 1909</li>
<li><i>The Gospel and the modern Man</i>, 1910</li>
<li><i>The Social Teaching of Jesus</i>, 1910</li>
<li><i>Scientific Management in Churches</i>, 1911</li>
<li><i>The Individual and the Social Gospel</i>, 1914</li>
<li><i>The Spiritual Interpretation of History</i>, 1916</li>
<li><i>Patriotism and Religion</i>, 1918</li>
<li><i>The Validity of American Ideals</i>, 1922</li>
<li><i>The Faith of Modernism</i>, 1914</li>
<li><i>Jesus on Social Institutions</i>, 1928</li>
<li><i>The Atonement and the Social Process</i>, 1930</li>
<li><i>The Growth of the Idea of God</i>, 1931</li>
<li><i>Immortality and the Cosmic Process</i>, 1933</li>
<li><i>Christianity and Social Process</i>, 1934</li>
<li><i>Creative Christianity</i>, 1935</li>
<li><i>The Church and the Christian</i>, 1938</li>
<li><i>Is God Emeritus?</i> 1940</li>
<li>Autobiografie: <i>New Faith for Old. An Autobiography</i>, 1936</li></ul>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Literatur">Literatur</h2></div>
<ul><li>Kenneth Smith: <cite style="font-style:italic">Shailer Mathews: theologian of social process</cite>. <a href="Duke_University" title="Duke University">Duke University</a>, Durham 1959.<span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rfr_id=info:sid/de.wikipedia.org:Shailer+Mathews&rft.au=Kenneth+Smith&rft.btitle=Shailer+Mathews%3A+theologian+of+social+process&rft.date=1959&rft.genre=book&rft.place=Durham&rft.pub=Duke+University" style="display:none"> </span></li>
<li>Christian Schwarke: <i>Mathews, Shailer.</i> In: <i><a href="Biographisch-Bibliographisches_Kirchenlexikon" title="Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon">Biographisch-Bibliographisches Kirchenlexikon</a></i> (BBKL). Band 5, Bautz, Herzberg 1993, ISBN 3-88309-043-3, Sp. 1011–1013.</li></ul>
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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ead.lib.uchicago.edu/uncap_rs3.php?eadid=ICU.SPCL.SHAILERMATHEWS&q=mathews%2C+shailer"><i>Guide to the Shailer Mathews Papers</i></a>. University of Chicago Library. Abgerufen am 31. Januar 2010 (englisch)</li></ul>
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