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Died. Henry Pitney ("Pit") Van Dusen, 77, venerable Protestant theologian and president of Manhattan's Union Theological Seminary from 1945 to 1963; of heart disease; in Belle Meade, N.J. Van Dusen combined a profound faith with skepticism over excessive dogmatism and clerical parochialism. His ordination was held up for two years while Presbyterian leaders agonized over his right to question the literal biblical rendition of the Virgin birth. During Van Dusen's tenure as president, Union's enrollment doubled and such studies as psychiatry and religious drama joined the curriculum. A prime organizer of the World Council...
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...
MODELS OF THE CHURCH, by Avery Dulles (Doubleday; 216 pages; $5.95). Unusually popular for a work of theology, this book is already in its fourth printing. Jesuit Dulles, a leading U.S. Catholic theologian, writes cogently on the pros and cons of five current theories of ecclesiology (the theology of the nature of the church), making the proceedings accessible to laymen. Because ecclesiology underlies many other current debates in Christianity-such as ecumenism, authority and hierarchy, secular v. sacred mission-the book is important. In particular, Dulles rejects the "Institutional" model that characterized Catholicism until recent years, while seeing some value...
RELIGION AND SEXISM, edited by Rosemary Radford Ruether (Simon and Schuster; 356 pages; $3.95 paperback, $9.95 hardback). Those who seek the roots of sexism in Judaism and Christianity can find plenty of them in this collection of essays edited by Theologian Ruether, a Roman Catholic and an outspoken feminist. Eleven scholars-ten women and one man-investigate various, mostly pejorative images of women in Old and New Testaments, in canon law, in the thought of the Church Fathers, medieval scholastics, Protestant Reformers and even such modern theologians as Karl Barth and Paul Tillich. In this collection, at least, Tillich...
...month-old Vatican Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews, were intended to implement a declaration by the Second Vatican Council in 1965 which, among other things, had declared that all Jews could not be blamed for the death of Jesus. That document, for which Jews like the late Theologian Abraham Joshua Heschel had long labored, also called for building positive relations between the two faiths...