Frederick Herzog

Frederick Herzog (1925 - 1995) was a professor of systematic theology at Duke University. An impassioned champion of Civil Rights, his academic focus was liberation theology. A native of North Dakota, Herzog earned his doctorate from Princeton University after having studied in Germany and Switzerland, where he was an assistant to professor Karl Barth. In 1960, he joined the faculty at Duke Divinity School. Herzog taught religion at Duke until his sudden death during a faculty meeting in 1995. In the spring of 1970 he wrote the first North American article on liberation theology, and in 1972 his ‘Liberation Theology’ was published. In ‘Justice Church’ Herzog extended his methodology for liberation theology in North America. During the last ten years of his life, his writings were strongly affected by his work in Latin America.

His daughter, Dagmar Herzog, is professor of history at the CUNY Graduate Center in New York.

Books Include:Liberation Theology,European Pietism Reviewed, and Justice Church. Two books have been published referring to his work: Theology & Corporate Conscience: Essays in Honor of Frederick Herzog (ed by MD Meeks, J Moltmann, FR Trost) and Theology from the Belly of the Whale: A Frederick Herzog Reader, ed by Joerg Rieger.

Pertinent Articles: [http://www.divinity.duke.edu/publications/2007.01/features/legacy/index.htm] , [http://www.religion-online.org/showarticle.asp?title=1588]