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Unlike past laureates, like George Stigler, the 1982 winner who has been critical of government regulation, Debreu is purely a theorist. "We have never before awarded the prize for contributions of such pure basic research," said Assar Lindbeck, chairman of the five-member Nobel committee. Notes Bent Hanson, chairman of the Berkeley economics department: "Gerard Debreu is an economist's economist. His work is very abstract, very fundamental. But everyone in the profession quotes him and must demonstrate that they know his work...
...contradictions. They are "liberal" in the sense of shunning revivalist zeal and puritanical rules (it is no crime for Lutheran ministers to smoke, visit nightclubs or gamble) but are as "conservative" as Roman Catholics in insisting on the importance of certain central doctrines. Yale Divinity School's George Lindbeck, who wrote the chapter on Lutherans, says this schizophrenic situation cannot last, and speculates that Lutherans will gradually shift in the direction of Roman Catholicism, which they broke with...
...Catholic seminary teachers with American doctorates: the divinity schools at Harvard, Yale, Chicago and Vanderbilt, and New York's Union Theological Seminary. When they and two others* approached the foundation in 1973 about grants, it ordered up instead a thorough study of the seminaries by Theologian George Lindbeck-himself an alumnus of Yale Divinity, where he now teaches-in collaboration with Harvard Social Scientists Karl Deutsch and Nathan Glazer...
Seminary leaders who saw earlier drafts of the report are understandably unenthusiastic, though Harvard Dean Krister Stendahl himself is critical of bland "university theology" that has no roots in religious communities. Lindbeck's Yale boss, Dean Colin Williams, and Vanderbilt's Dean Sallie TeSelle both claim that their schools are striving to preserve various traditions and train church leaders. As for Chicago's Associate Dean Martin Marty, he says his school has little interest in training ministers and thinks his friend Lindbeck "is a little too mournful about the shattering of the stained-glass windows...
Among the signers, who were able to agree on the protest with surprising alacrity, were Catholic Theologian Avery Dulles, Eastern Orthodox Seminary Dean Alexander Schmemann, Lutheran Theologians George Forell and George Lindbeck, Yale Chaplain William Sloane Coffin Jr., a Presbyterian, and Evangelical Theologian Lewis Smedes of Fuller Seminary...