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...Krister Stendahl, Frothingham Professor of Biblical Studies, was to succeed Miller on July 1. President Pusey will announce an interim dean this morning...
Miller felt life deeply and was a strongly spiritual man. "The mystery of life--a word he often used--to him was not mystification but ... a way of openness and sensitivity," Stendahl recalled...
...faculty since 1958. Co-author (with Harvard's Archibald Cox) of the classic textbook on labor law, Bok has had experience as a strike mediator and is well liked by his students, who consider him less frostily distant than Griswold. Heading the Divinity School is Stockholm-born Krister Stendahl, 46, an ordained Lutheran minister who is regarded as one of the top New Testament scholars in the U.S. Admired by his students as a charismatic teacher, Stendahl was one of three leading candidates last year for the vacant post of primate in Sweden's state church...
...teaching more closely to contemporary social problems. Bok sees a need for the Law School to draw more heavily upon the skills of other departments within the university, then apply their combined knowledge to such issues as racial discrimination, aid to the poor and labor relations. Similarly, Stendahl feels that the Divinity School curriculum should reflect more of the church's concern with the eradication of social ills. By coincidence, Bok and Stendahl are good personal friends and have a common interest in things Swedish: Bok's wife is the daughter of Sweden's great sociologist, Gunnar...
...Krister Stendahl, Frothingham Professor of Biblical Studies, Frank M. Cross, Hancock Professor of Hebrew and Other Oriental Languages, and George H. Williams, Hallis Professor of Divinity, signed a statement by Niebuhr saying that "we see no justification in the proposals which seek once again to destroy the unity which has been restored to Jerusalem...