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Theologians through the ages have bent their brains on the nature and function of God the Father and God the Son. But the third person of the Christian Trinity has received relatively scant theological consideration. "With a few inconsequential exceptions," writes President Henry P. Van Dusen of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary, "there has been hardly a period in the church's history, hardly a school of Christian theology, hardly an individual theologian who has given to the Holy Spirit the attention . . . merited...
...World Council leaders were care ful to warn against too optimistic a picture of a Catholic-Protestant alliance. Said the Rev. Henry P. Van Dusen, president of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary: "Anything which suggests the possibility of closer unity among Christians is of course to be welcomed. But frankly, no one here really thinks that there is any possibility of reunion with Rome...
HENRY P. VAN DUSEN President Union Theological Seminary New York City They That Take the Sword...
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...