Religion of Democracy: An Intellectual Biography of Gerald Birney Smith, 1868a1929

W. Creighton Peden is Fuller E. Callaway Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Georgia Regents University. He received a BA from Davidson College, his MA in Theology and BD in Divinity from the University of Chicago, and his PhD in Philosophical Theology from St. Andrews University, Scotland. Peden has published intellectual biographies on the Early Chicago School in Theology: E. S. Ames-Christian Pragmatism; G. B. Foster-From Authority Religion to Spirit Religion; A. E. Haydon-A Good Life in a World Made Good; H. N. Wieman-The Life and Thought of Henry Nelson Wieman; and B. E. Meland-Life and Thought of Bernard Eugene Meland, and is co-editor, with John N. Gaston, of Bernard Eugene Meland's Unpublished Papers. He is also the author of Empirical Tradition in American Liberal Religious Thought, 1860-1960, and co-author, with Charles Hartshorne, of Whitehead's View of Reality.