1900-1994
Theologian and Author

Popular Theologian.

D. Elton Trueblood, whose Quaker ancestors settled in America in 1682, was one of the most prominent theologians in the United States during the 1940s. Educated at the Harvard School of Theology and Johns Hopkins University, he was less an intellectual than a popularizer of religious thought. His studies of religion were widely read in the 1940s and contributed to the revival of religion during the decade.

Author.

Trueblood was the author of thirty-three books, five of them published in the 1940s: The Logic of Belief (1942), The Predicament of Modern Man (1944), Foundations for Reconstruction (1946), Alternative to Futility (1948), and The Common Ventures of Life: Marriage, Birth, Work, and Death (1949). In his work he sought to enlighten the "literate secular reader" rather than the professional theologian. He hoped his works would inspire people to work toward a "redemptive" society based upon Christian...