Word: wilkens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Competing with Yale. Fordham's new spirit shows up in its openly ecumenical, postconciliar attitude toward religion in education. This month the university appointed a Lutheran Church historian, the Rev. Robert L. Wilken, as a permanent member of its theology department -the first Protestant clergyman to hold such a full-time post at a Catholic university. The school also employs Rabbi Irwin M. Blank of Temple Sinai in Tenafly, N.J., as a visiting lecturer. Last fall Fordham began to share libraries and lecturers with the interdenominational Union Theological Seminary; currently it is competing with Yale on a proposed affiliation...