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...among the ablest, most perceptive and well-balanced" of the nation's young men, says Union Theological Seminary's President Henry P. Van Dusen. "The men who come here to study do not come to escape society," adds President Alvin N. Rogness of St. Paul's Lutheran Theological Seminary, "but to engage it with vital issues." In one recent year, a third of the students at Yale Divinity School were Phi Beta Kappas; of 39 students who entered Austin (Texas) Presbyterian Theological Seminary last year, 13 had IQs of 130 or more. At Vanderbilt, reports Dean William...
...worse than the used-car business." Perhaps the most ambitious talent-raiding these days is done by Chicago, which recently has signed up Paul Tillich from Harvard. Langdon Gilkey from Vanderbilt. Charles Stinnette from Union, and Joseph Haroutunian from nearby McCormick Theological Seminary (although it lost Lutheran Church Historian Jaroslav Pelikan to Yale...
Students do get practice. "The big word now is internship," says President Stuart Anderson of the Pacific School of Religion. Cambridge Episcopal requires its students to spend a summer interning in hospitals and prisons. Lutheran seminarians from Concordia in St. Louis visit general or mental hospitals weekly for lectures on practical psychology. William B. Abernethy, 23, of Union Theological, is typical of those who found some of their preconceptions shattered; when he conducted a Bible study class with a group of East Harlem housewives, he says, marveling, "These women would come up with insights more profound and incisive than...
...ministry of mobility," he says. "I can most successfully meet these people without the traditional institutional forms." In Denver, pastors are worrying about how to reach families living in the anonymity of tall new apartment buildings. "They are sealed in their apartments," says Dr. Paul Noren, the Augustana Lutheran pastor who is president of the Denver Area Council of Churches, "but they are a responsibility of the church." To reach these hidden Christians, many Denver churches play down Sunday worship in favor of midday services during the week...
Speaking at University Lutheran Church, Shore pointed out that there is no definite way to identify potential delinquents because "not every delinquent is the same. It's only a legal distinction that means a kid has been caught breaking the law, not a classification of people. "Why he did it' is a difficult question...