George Lindbeck, a founder of postliberal theology, dies at age 94
He is best known for his 1984 book The Nature of Doctrine and his engagement in the ecumenical movement.
George Lindbeck, one of the most influential Protestant theologians of recent decades, died on January 8 at age 94 in Florida.
Kristen Lindbeck, his daughter, wrote on social media that he died “slipping so quietly from sleep to death that I . . . did not realize it, and the hospice nurse needed to check with her stethoscope. As good as death can be.”
He grew up in China, where his parents were missionaries. He said in a 2006 Christian Century interview that knowing people who were formed by both Christianity and Confucianism gave him the convictions “that the communal shapes us more than we shape ourselves” and that “human basics are everywhere and always pretty much the same.”
