Word: dusen
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Although little known outside church circles, Barnes belongs - along with such figures as Willem Visser 't Hooft, Henry P. Van Dusen, and the late Anglican Bishop of Chichester, Dr. G.K. A. Bell - to the great generation of ecumenical architects who brought the World Council to life. A former English teacher, Presbyterian Minister Barnes, 62, was associate general secretary of the old Federal Council of Churches (a predecessor of today's National) from 1940 to 1950. He has been the ranking executive of the World Council in the U.S. since...
...most famous nondenominational seminary, Union Theological, in Manhattan. Last week the board of directors elected a man who had been on campus all along: Dr. John Coleman Bennett, 61, who was dean of the faculty from 1955 until he became acting president after the retirement of Henry Pitney Van Dusen last June...
...through agonizing intimations of hell rather than of paradise. Most instant mystics feel that they have been "reborn," and have suddenly been given the key to existence, although their intuition usually appears in the form of an incommunicable platitude, such as "oneness is all." California Prison Psychologist Wilson Van Dusen, for example, imagined himself in a black void in which "God was walking on me and I cried for joy. My own voice seemed to speak of his coming, but I didn't believe it. Suddenly and unexpectedly the zenith of the void was lit up with the blinding...
Constellation of Scholars. A committee has spent more than a year vainly trying to find a new president, hopes to get its man by June 30, when Van Dusen leaves. The long search stems partly from the seminary's rigidly high standards, partly from the fact that few men alive can match Van Dusen's diverse ecclesiastical talents. A superb administrator, he has seen Union's faculty change from a sometimes tempestuous aggregation of individual stars (including Harry Emerson Fosdick and Bible Scholar James Moffatt) to what he calls "a constellation of scholars in intimate fellowship." During...
...Dusen was almost as active outside Union's quadrangle as within it. He is one of the century's undisputed ecumenical giants-a chairman of the Study Program for the World Council of Churches' first two General Assemblies, a major force in the negotiations that fused the Council and the old International Missionary Council in 1961. After office hours, Van Dusen has been a popular, effective preacher-his grainy bass baritone still seems capable of shattering stained glass -and a prolific theological writer: he has edited nine books, contributed to at least 14 others, and the 15th...