Word: dusen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Henry Pitney Van Dusen, noted Protestant clergyman who has worked closely with President Pusey on the Divinity School, is also a likely choice for a doctorate...
Apropos Theologian Van Dusen's choice of which church to serve: his reasons for rejecting the Episcopal Church in favor of the Presbyterian aren't very good theology, nor correct in their implications...
...state of Protestantism here and abroad, Swiss Theologian Karl Earth [April 12] appears to be both a sign of and one of the reasons for the other-worldly-and consequent so widely prevalent in Europe's churches; just as such theology and leadership as that of Dr. Van Dusen [April 19] appear to express and help to account for the worldly and consequent growing vitality-among Protestant churches in the U.S. There is nothing notably new, save, perhaps, the pious expression of it, in the feeling of frustration, not to say inferiority, in the face of current American ascendency...
...Dusen-and to American Protestantism generally-Christianity is still the "good news" ... To Barth-and much of European Protestantism-Christianity appears to be a means for coming to terms with a world which man makes worse but cannot make better . . . The result is that U.S. churches are largely "activist"; Europe's largely "escapist" ... In view of the awe in which, among some American churchmen, Europe's theologians are held, Dr. Van Dusen and those of his mind have a large but a prophetic job cut out for them...
...describe Dr. Van Dusen in terms of a business executive, leading the "fragmented and busy life of a corporation president," is to present us with a picture of less than half the man . . . Your article might lend support to the misconception of those who-particularly in Europe-think American Protestantism is too much preoccupied with the business and administrative aspects of the church's life...