Mollegen was born in McComb, Mississippi to Charles Henry Mollegen (1880–1912) and Bessie Lee McDonald (1882–1969). His father died when he was very young.
At Union, Mollegen was one of the first American students of the religious socialist Paul Tillich. He later became one of Tillich's most articulate adherents.[1]
Mollegen taught New Testament language and literature and Christian ethics at the Virginia Theological Seminary for most of his career. He also lectured at many campuses including the University of Chicago, University of Florida, Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, Southern Methodist University, and Cambridge University.[2]
In 1947, he founded Christianity and Modern Man, a liberal evangelical organization.[1]
Throughout his career, Mollegen was invited to preach at various churches throughout the United States. Mollegen strongly believed that the revival of Christian religion clearly rests on the individual having a closer connection to God, and not the clergy.[3]
He retired from the faculty of the Virginia Theological Seminary in 1974.[2]
His wife, the former Harriette Ione Rush of Meridian, Mississippi, died in 1978. He has a son, A.T. Mollegen Jr. (known as Ted) of Mystic, Conn.; a daughter, Anne Mollegen Smith of New York City, and three grandchildren.[2]
Mollegen, Albert T. (1952). "The Religious Basis of Western Socialism". In Egbert, Donald Drew; Persons, Stow (eds.). Socialism and American Life. Vol. 1. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press (published 2016). pp. 97–124. ISBN978-1-4008-7508-5. JSTORj.ctt183pqkf.7.
Mollegen, Albert T., and Charles P. Price, Existentialism: question or answer? (1961)
^ abcde"Albert Theodore Mollegen". The Episcopal Church. Retrieved 7 November 2022. He was most noted as an apologist for liberal evangelicalism, and in 1947 he founded an association called Christianity and Modern Man.
^ abcd"Va. theologian Albert Mollegen dies at Age 77". Washington Post. Washington, DC. 23 January 1984. Retrieved 7 November 2022. Dr. Mollegen was a widely-known apologist for classical Christianity to modern intellectuals and had lectured widely on campuses.
^"Guest Urges Evangelism". New York Times. New York, New York. 20 July 1953. p. 15. Retrieved 16 June 2024. The people, not the clergy, must be the "carriers of Christianity," the Rev. Dr. Albert T. Mollegen, guest preacher at St. James Protestant Episcopal Church, Madison Avenue and Seventy-first Street, declared yesterday morning.
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