American Personalism in Philosophy and Theology

The term “American personalism” was first used by Walt Whitman (1819-1892). There are two schools of American Personalism: The Bostonian School and The Californian School. The father of American Personalism was Borden Parker Bowne (1847-1910) who presented his Personalism (Boston 1908) as a system. American Personalism was developed in Philosophy and Theology, and there are five generations of American Personalists.

1. Introduction to American Personalism

2. Borden Parker Bowne (1847-1910) and his book Personalism

3. American Personalism in Philosophy

4. Person as the Key to Reality

5. American Personalism in Theology

6. Walter George Muelder (1907-2004) and his Communitarian Personalism

7. Studies in American Personalism

B. Gacka, American Personalism, Lublin: Oficyna Wydawnicza „Czas”, 1995.

B. Gacka (ed.), Bibliography of American Personalism, Lublin: Oficyna Wydawnicza „Czas”, 1994.

B. P. Bowne, Personalism, Boston and New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1908.

R. Burrow, Jr., Personalism. A critical Introduction, St. Louis, Missouri: Chalice Press, 1999.

P. Deats and C. Robb (eds.), The Boston Personalist Tradition in Philosophy, Social Ethics and Theology, Macon, Georgia: Mercer Press, 1986.

R. T. Flewelling, Studies in American Personalism, 6(2004) Personalism, p. 29-52.

T. Buford, Classical American Personalism, 3(2002) Personalism, p. 35-46.

E. S. Brightman (ed.), Personalism in Theology, Boston: BU Press, 1943.

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