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Henry Nelson Wieman (1884–1975) was an American philosopher and theologian. He became the most famous proponent of theocentric naturalism and the empirical method in American theology and catalyzed the emergence of Religious Naturalism in the latter part of the 20th century. ==Biography== Wieman studied at Park College in Missouri, graduating in 1907. In 1910, he graduated from the San Francisco Theological Seminary and then moved to Germany for two years to study at the universities in Jena and Heidelberg. In Germany, he studied under the theologians Ernst Troeltsch and Adolf von Harnack, as well as the philosopher Wilhelm Windelband, but none of these had any significant impact on Wieman. Wieman moved back to the United States and spent four years as a Presbyterian pastor in California before moving to Harvard to do a doctorate in philosophy under the tutelage of William Ernest Hocking and Ralph Barton Perry, which he received in 1917. At Harvard, Wieman became interested in the work of John Dewey, as well as the work of Henri Bergson and Alfred North Whitehead.〔 After Harvard, Wieman started teaching at Occidental College. In 1927, as one of America's only Whitehead experts, Wieman was invited to the University of Chicago Divinity School to give a lecture explaining Whitehead's thought.〔Gary Dorrien, "The Lure and Necessity of Process Theology", CrossCurrents 58 (2008): 320.〕 Wieman's lecture was so brilliant that he was promptly hired to the faculty as Professor of Christian Theology, and taught there for twenty years, and for at least thirty years afterward Chicago's Divinity School was closely associated with Whitehead's thought.〔Gary Dorrien, The Making of American Liberal Theology: Crisis, Irony, and Postmodernity, 1950–2005 (Louisville: Westminster John Knox Press, 2006), 123–124.〕 He retired in 1949.〔 In the years following, Wieman taught at the University of Oregon, the University of West Virginia, the University of Houston, UCLA, Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri and Grinnell College. In 1956 he was hired as distinguished visiting professor of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. Wieman retired for the third time in 1966.〔Henry Nelson Wieman, by Jim Nugent, January 27, 2006 - http://uudb.org/articles/henrynelsonwieman.html〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Henry Nelson Wieman」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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