Word: dusen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...York's Union Theological Seminary had a housing problem. Faced with an unexpected influx of 60-odd returned veterans next semester (two-thirds of them married, some with children) Henry Pitney Van Dusen's interdenominational residence halls were stumped. Union's housing problem spotlighted a broader and more interesting question: has the war turned more young men than usual to the service...
...room over a Bronx fish market. Last week he ended 19 years as president of one of Protestantism's most outstanding theological schools, Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary. Dr. Coffin had reached Union's retirement age (68) and was making way for Dr. Henry Pitney Van Dusen, Union's professor of systematic theology (TIME...
Last week Dr. Henry P. Van Dusen, president-elect of Manhattan's Union
Theological Seminary, cited this and other solid evidence to show that
foreign missions are "in some respects the most amazing achievement of
Christianity in all its history." The evidence is in his new book, They
Found the Church There (Scribner; $1.75). Chiefly it is a collection of
personal stories and testimonies by scores of servicemen.
...Dusen is a Princeton man, descended from a line of Princeton men. He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and his class ('19) elected him "best all-around man outside athletics." He studied at Union, got his Bachelor of Divinity degree in 1924, went to Edinburgh for graduate work. He began teaching at Union in 1926. In 1932, after another sojourn in Edin burgh, to get a Ph.D., he became the Seminary's dean, a job he held eight years...
Like Dr. Coffin, Dr. Van Dusen is a leader in the ecumenical movement (the question of church mergers will again be discussed at this week's Presbyterian Assembly). He favored earlier U.S. intervention in the European war, is enthusiastic about foreign missions, believes that vigorous, outspoken church leadership is necessary for a just and durable peace...