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Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Langdon Brown Gilkey was an American Protestant ecumenical theologian.

February 9, 1919 - November 19, 2004

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Art pierces opaque subjectivity, the not seeing of conventional life, and discloses reality.

Langdon Brown Gilkey

The First Amendment is important not only to guarantee the rights of alternative religions and of nonreligious persons in society; it is also important in setting the only possible legal and social condition for the creative health of serious religion itself.

Langdon Brown Gilkey

Art has a prophetic role, denouncing the culture it lays bare.

Langdon Brown Gilkey

Enforced religion breeds precisely what it most fears: rebellion against religion, cynicism about religion, skepticism about its claims, and, as a consequence, indifference at best or outright antipathy at worst.

Langdon Brown Gilkey

Kierkegaard was once asked, 'What is a poet?' He answered that a poet was an unhappy man whose moans and cries of anguish were transformed into ravishing music.

Langdon Brown Gilkey

Top 5 Quotes & Sayings by Langdon Brown Gilkey

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