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...Holy Hill"; the others are within easy driving distance. But what made the Union necessary was the high cost of academic improvements. Although the individual seminaries have plenty of topflight teachers - Old Testament Scholar James Muilenberg at the Presbyterian San Francisco Theological Seminary, Systematic Theologian Keith Bridston at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary - none of the schools ranked among the nation's best. Only two had doctoral programs, and their libraries ranged from average to inadequate. Back in 1959, the seminary presidents began meeting to discuss the possibility of exchanging teachers and pooling library resources, eventually worked out the common...
Theological University. The success of the Union so far gives promise that it will grow. G.T.U. officials are currently discussing the possibility of bringing in Southern Baptist, Jesuit, Mormon, Missouri Synod Lutheran and Jewish institutions. They are also thinking of an interfaith program in advanced pastoral studies. Eventually, they expect there will be some common courses on the undergraduate level, and that the participating seminaries will, in effect, become member colleges of the nation's first theological university...
...many theologians, Christianity's biggest problems are: first, to get the church out of the cathedrals and into the marketplace; and, second, to make the Gospel message a life-changing reality in men's hearts. The American Lutheran Church thinks it may have found one solution in its "Faith in Life Dialogue," a week-long experiment that concluded last week in the neighboring towns of Fargo (pop. 50,500), N. Dak., and Moorhead (23,000), Minn. The venture, says Methodist Church Historian Franklin Littell of Chicago Theological Seminary, is "the most important thing of its kind to occur...
...dialogue, modeled loosely on the German Protestant Kirchenwoche, or church week, was organized by Lutheran Pastor Arnold Mickelson "to get people to talk about their problems and their faith, to meet the community outside the church and discuss issues the public wants to talk about." A special interfaith committee scheduled more than 200 talk-stirring events, most of them under secular auspices, while clergymen stayed discreetly in the background. The dialogue was supported by nearly all local churches and service clubs...
...Hearing of a Negro G.I.'s disappointment in not finding a home, a landlord immediately offered him an apartment. The local Catholic and Protestant clergy, meeting for the first time while preparing for the week, found the experience so agreeable that they have set up monthly conferences. And Lutheran officials are so cock-a-hoop over the results that they want to test their luck in larger communities. Next year a Faith in Life Dialogue is planned for Duluth, the year after for Minneapolis...