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...Dusen turned for advice to the greatest Presbyterian preacher and pastor of his time, Dr. Henry Sloane Coffin. Coffin advised him to do what he himself had done: study for a year at Edinburgh, then return for the rest of his training at Union Theological Seminary in Manhattan. Van Dusen agreed, and thereupon began walking in Dr. Coffin's footsteps...
...managed to find time for some mild social life in Edinburgh; at one party he met Elizabeth Bartholomew of the Scottish mapmaking Bartholomews, whom he married in 1931 when he went back to Edinburgh for his Ph.D. But relaxation, social or otherwise, is not one of Pit Van Dusen's talents. Once, when his friend Erdman Harris and another classmate with some extra cash planned to visit Rome for a splurge during a winter recess, 23-year-old Van Dusen heard about it and quickly revised the plans...
...urged them to avoid the "fleshpots" of Europe; instead, he suggested, they should travel in second-class accommodations to the cities of Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Hungary, to study conditions under the postwar inflation and observe how U.S. relief money was being spent. Van Dusen ended by setting up the entire itinerary and going along...
Seclusion & Solitude. Back in the U.S., Van Dusen was licensed by the New York Presbytery, and almost at once found himself involved in the controversy then raging between the Fundamentalists and their liberal opponents. On the ground that young Van Dusen declined to affirm the literal Biblical account of the virgin birth, a conservative-minded judicial commission of the Presbyterian General Assembly challenged the right of the Presbytery to ordain him. The issue dragged on for two years before his ordination was officially recognized, with the help of a brief in his support by a Presbyterian lawyer named John Foster...
...when Dr. Coffin became president of Union, he asked his energetic young friend to join the faculty as instructor in philosophy of religion and systematic theology. Van Dusen turned down a teaching job at Princeton to accept. He has been at Union ever since, becoming dean of students in 1931 and president on Dr. Coffin's retirement...