Word: dusen
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Terrien's and Driver's academic boss, President Henry P. Van Dusen of Union Theological Seminary, took them both to task in the Christian Century for not taking into consideration the fact that the Book of Job is not one book but two-a poem with a prose introduction and conclusion on a much lower level. Since the picture of Job is not consistent in the first place, says Van Dusen, Dr. Terrien's complaint that J.B. is not faithful to the Book of Job is irrelevant. Instead of "slavish imitation" of the Biblical Job, "Mr. MacLeish...
Under energetic President Henry Pitney Van Dusen, pioneer of the ecumenical movement, Union's topflight faculty includes Theologians Reinhold Niebuhr (vice president of the seminary) and John C. Bennett, Philologist James Muilenburg, such noted preachers as Methodist Dr. Ralph Sockman and Riverside Church's Dr. Robert James McCracken. But maintaining such a faculty, as well as housing a student body that includes more and more women and children (46% of Union's seminarians are married), is posing a problem...
...Henry Pitney Van Dusen, president of Union Theological Seminary, once called Rauschenbusch "the greatest single personal influence on the life and thought of the U.S. church in the last 50 years." Rauschenbusch in turn was influenced by the jostling, exploiting, every-man-for-himself America of his time. With six generations of ministers behind him (his parents came to the U.S. from Germany...
Henry Pitney Van Dusen, president of Union Theological Seminary S.T.D...
HENRY P. VAN DUSEN Union Theological Seminary New York City...