Borden Parke Bowne

Borden Parker Bowne, who made Boston University the citadel of personalism, was explicitly theistic, holding that men are creatures of God with many dimensions—moral, religious, emotional, logical—each worthy of consideration in its own right and each reflecting the rationality of the creator. Nature, too, for…

The American philosopher of religion Borden Parker Bowne founded another important American school, that of personalism, a Kantian- and Lotzean-based variety of theistic idealism similar to the spiritual pluralism of Ward. Whereas most previous idealisms had stressed the rational as the highest category of reality and hence as its paradigm,…