Langdon Gilkey, 85; Theologian Wrote About God in Wartime
LA Times
Langdon Gilkey, 85, Protestant theologian, educator and prolific author who wrote widely on the relevance of God in “time of troubles,” died Friday of meningitis at the University of Virginia Hospital in Charlottesville. The Chicago-born son of a liberal Baptist minister, Gilkey described himself as an “ethical humanist.” As a Harvard student, he expressed pacifist beliefs and with his classmate, future Cardinal Avery Dulles, formed a Keep America Out of War Committee. When the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, Gilkey was teaching English in Beijing and was interned by the Japanese, prompting his 1966 book, “Shantung Compound: The Story of Men and Women Under Pressure.”
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