Schubert Miles Ogden, Protestant theologian, dies at age 91
Ogden engaged “the credibility of the Christian witness,” he wrote in the Century’s How My Mind Has Changed series. “Christian faith itself claims to be credible in terms of common human experience.”
Schubert Ogden. Photo from Ogden via Creative Commons license
Schubert Miles Ogden, a central figure in mainline Protestant theology in the mid-20th century, died June 6 at age 91 in Louisville, Colorado, after a long illness.
His books included Christ without Myth (1961), The Reality of God (1966), and Faith and Freedom: Toward a Theology of Liberation (1979). A selection of his sermons was published in 2015 with the title To Preach the Truth.
An ordained United Methodist elder, he taught at University of Chicago Divinity School and the Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist University until retiring in 1993.
