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...JERALD BRAUER, 43, Lutheran, the dean. Brauer's scholarly field is English Puritanism, and his modern interest is the effect of religion in politics and education. Appointed dean eleven years ago, he is committed to the credo that "knowledge, although of value for its own sake," must lead to social action. >GIBSON WINTER, 49, Episcopalian, professor of ethics and society. Having earned a Ph.D. in sociology at Harvard, he went on to be a pioneer of church renewal and writer of the provocative Suburban Captivity of the Churches. >ROBERT GRANT, 48, Episcopalian, professor of New Testament. The top expert...
...genius of this place," says Scott, "is the concept of theology as an interdisciplinary undertaking." >JOSEPH SITTLER, 61, Lutheran, professor of theology. The leading campus spokesman for ecumenism, he combined parish ministry with teaching at a Lutheran seminary before coming to Chicago. He says Chicago "is not protecting any theological tradition. The tradition here is hard-nosed research...
...Baptist, professor of theology. A teacher in China, he spent World War II in a Japanese prison camp, told of the experience in Shantung Compound. The greatness of Chicago, says Gilkey, "is that it views Christianity not as separate from culture, but as its spiritual essence." -MARTIN MARTY, 37, Lutheran, associate professor of church history. Among the top historians of the Christian church in America, Marty served for eight years as a parish minister, is an associate editor of the Christian Century. He went to Chicago Divinity because it "is short on ideology and because pragmatism has never been...
These two schools are hardly pioneers. St. Albert's College in Oakland, Calif., a Dominican seminary, joined with six Protestant divinity schools in the Bay Area to create the Graduate Theological Union (TIME, Nov. 6, 1964). Last year three seminaries in Dubuque, Iowa (one Presbyterian, one Lutheran, one Catholic), joined forces with the University of Iowa school of religion to form a similar organization, the Association of Theological Faculties...
While most of the troops in Viet Nam may be indifferent to churchgoing, they nonetheless have a high respect for the churchmen who share the dangers of War with a quiet heroism that wins affection and awe rather than medals. One such chaplain is Lutheran Hugh Lecky, 34, a "helipadre" who last summer rode a chopper to Ba Gia, a remote outpost that was under Viet Cong attack. With a chaplain's kit on his left hip and a medical corpsman's bag on his right, Lecky ministered to a dying helicopter pilot, then turned to helping others...