Landon Gilkey

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Dr. Landon Gilkey is a twentieth century theologian who spent most of his career at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He obtained his doctorate from Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary (studying with Reinhold Niebuhr) in religion and was profoundly influenced by being held in an internment camp during World War II, writing Shantung Compound about his experiences. He was an author of twenty books and attempted to affirm the veracity of dialogue about God amidst the 'death of God' movement of the 1960's. He studied Buddhism and Sikhism later in his life. He also argued that science and religion did not need to be in conflict and testified in an Arkansas court that evolution rather than creationism should be taught in public schools. He died at the age of 85 in 2004.