It was within this context of personal and social crisis that Gilkey thought, wrote, and spoke forcefully and creatively; reinterpreting the classical Christian symbols of the transcendence and mystery of God, the fall and sin of humans, and divine providence and the direction of history in relation to a secular and scientific culture and the plurality of religions as they encounter the post-Christian and postmodern culture of the West.
Gilkey was born in Chicago, Illinois, on February 9, 1919; the son of Charles Whitney and Geraldine Gunsaulus (Brown) Gilkey. He attended the famous University of Chicago Laboratory School before graduating from the Asheville (North Carolina) School in 1936 and enrolling at Harvard where he received his A.B. in philosophy magna cum laude in June 1940. Looking back on that prewar period, Gilkey wrote that in college "Religion, or interest in it, played absolutely no part in my personal or my intellectual life....
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