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...GEOFFREY M. DUGAN...
Perhaps the strongest of these schools academically is Fuller Theological, with such scholars as New Testament Theologian George Ladd and Geoffrey Bromiley, Karl Earth's principal English translator. It is also the most innovative. Fuller has expanded its basic theology program and has created two new schools in World Mission and graduate psychology. It also has a program for black pastors without college degrees and offers various courses for the local black community...
Died. Lord Fisher of Lambeth, 85, former Archbishop of Canterbury; of a stroke; in Sherborne, England. One of ten children born to a Victorian rector, Geoffrey Francis Fisher was crowned the 99th Archbishop of Canterbury-Primate of All England and spiritual leader of the world's 42 million-member Anglican Communion-in 1945. He opposed progressive education, took a strong stand against the romance between Princess Margaret and the divorced Peter Townsend, and shocked millions by asserting that man's nuclear destruction might be God's will. Despite his critical attitude toward Roman Catholic dogmatism, Fisher...
...Britain's Open University. Launched by the Labor government in 1969, Open University now has 35,000 housewives, truck drivers and even soldiers studying toward bachelor's degrees in various fields of science and the arts. It has no formal entrance requirements ("All we ask," says Dean Geoffrey Holister, "is that a student can read and write"), but teaching is rigorous. At a cost of about $200 per student, each course involves one week of summer school, 34 weeks of television and radio lectures, and large amounts of required reading and writing assignments, which must be mailed...
...only because of the reach of his knowledge and intuition, but because of the outrageous speed of his cosmological imagination. Several times Hoyle's exuberance has boiled over into fiction, including The Black Cloud and Rockets in Ursa Major -the latter written in collaboration with his son Geoffrey, as are the two long short stories in this book...