Background
Lindbeck was born in 1923 in Luoyang, China, the son of American Lutheran missionaries.
historian theologian university professor
Lindbeck was born in 1923 in Luoyang, China, the son of American Lutheran missionaries.
He attended Gustavus Adolphus College, graduating with a Bachelor in 1943.
He is best known as an ecumenicist and as one of the fathers of postliberal theology. Raised in that country and in of Korea for the first seventeen years of his life, he was often sickly as a child and found himself often isolated from the world around himself. He went on to do graduate work at Yale University, receiving his Bachelor's Degree in 1946.
After his undergraduate work he spent a year at the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies with Étienne Gilson in Toronto then two years at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études with Paul Vignaux in Paris.
He earned his Doctor of Philosophy from Yale in 1955 concentrating on medieval studies, delivering a dissertation on Franciscan theologian John Duns Scotus.