Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Bernard Eugene Meland

American professor emeritus of constructive theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School, Historian of Liberal Theology at the Chicago School of Theology

"This solitary response to reality is the deepest religious experience one can have. It is turning from the periphery of life to the core of existence. In this solitary moment it is as if one entered into the scheme of things."