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Joseph L. Allen
As assistant professor of social ethics at Perkins School of
Theology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, Joseph L.
Allen teaches primarily in the field of theology and politics. He
is a North Carolinian by birth, was graduated from Duke
University, and then received his B.D. and Ph.D. degrees from
Yale University. He is an ordained minister and member of the
North Carolina Annual Conference in The Methodist Church.
William B. Cate
William B. Cate is executive secretary of the Greater Portland
Council of Churches, Portland, Oregon, having previously held a
similar position with the Interchurch Council of New Bedford,
Massachusetts. A minister of The Methodist Church, he took his
S.T.B. and Ph.D. degrees from Boston University; his dissertation
dealt with “Theoretical and Practical Aspects of Ecumenical
Communication.” He has also spent a year of study at the
Ecumenical Institute, near Geneva, and the University of Basle.
Currently he is chairman of the Studies Committee for the
American Association of Council Secretaries.
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Hans Dombois
Hans Dombois received his LL.D. from the University of Göttingen
and was for many years active in the judiciary. Since 1950 he is
a member of the Institute of Protestant Studies, now located in
Heidelberg, where he is responsible for research in the relations
between theology, legal theory, and legislation. His special
interest is ecclesiastical law, and the most recent of his
publications is a massive historical and theoretical study in
that field, Das Recht der Gnade. For the past decade he
served as chairman of the Political Working Group of the
Protestant Kirchentag.
Nils Ehrenstrom
Nils Ehrenstrom is professor of ecumenics at Boston University
School of Theology. He has spent some twenty-five years in
Geneva, first with the Research Department of the Universal
Christian Council for Life and Work and subsequently as director
of the Study Department of the World Council of Churches.
Ordained in the Lutheran Church of Sweden, he received his
theological degrees from the Universities of Uppsala and Lund.
Contributor and co-editor of numerous ecumenical publications, he
is the author of Christian Faith and the Modern State: An
Ecumenical Approach and has been an associate editor of
The Ecumenical Review since its inception. He is
secretary of the Faith and Order Study Commission on
Institutionalism.
James M. Gustafson
As associate professor of social ethics at Yale Divinity School,
James M. Gustafson is responsible for teaching in theological
ethics and sociology of religion. A minister of the United Church
of Christ, U.S.A., he received his education at Northwestern
University, the University of Chicago, and Yale University. He
was assistant director of the Study of Theological Education in
the United States and Canada, 1954-1955. Contributor to books and
journals, he is the author of Treasure in Earthen Vessels:
The Church as a Human Community.
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Berndt Gustafsson
Berndt Gustafsson is assistant professor of church history at the
University of Lund and since 1962 also head of the Institute of
Sociology of Religion in Stockholm. A minister of the Church of
Sweden, he has doctorates both in theology and sociology from the
University of Lund. He is the author of numerous articles and
books in the fields of modern church history and sociology of
religion.
Richard P.C. Hanson
Since 1962 Lightfoot professor of divinity in the University of
Durham, England, Richard P.C. Hanson taught previously at the
Queen's College, Birmingham, and for ten years in the Department
of Theology at the University of Nottingham. He has also been
visiting lecturer at Seabury-Western Theological Seminary,
Evanston, Illinois. Anglo-Irish by descent, he was educated at
Trinity College, Dublin, in classics and theology. His
publications include two books on Origen and a recent one on
Tradition in the Early Church. For a period he served as
secretary of the Faith and Order Department of the British
Council of Churches.
Ken Ishiwara
Ken Ishiwara, a member of the Commission on Faith and Order of
the United Church of Christ in Japan, studied Greek philosophy
and Christian thought at Tokyo Imperial University and in
Heidelberg, Germany. In 1924 he was appointed professor of early
and medieval philosophy at Tohoku Imperial University, Sendai.
During the war he was president of Tokyo Woman’s Christian
College, later professor of church history at Aoyama-Gakuin
University, and currently is guest professor of history of
Christianity at several universities in Tokyo. He is the author
of several books, including Schleiermacher on Religion,
History of Christian Thought, and Studies on Medieval
Christianity.
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John H.S. Kent
John H.S. Kent is tutor in church history at Hartley Victoria
College, Manchester, England, and a lecturer in the history of
doctrine at Manchester University. He was educated at Emmanuel
College and Wesley House, Cambridge, taking his Ph.D. degree in
1950, and is an ordained Methodist minister. His special interest
is in modern church history, especially the religious history of
the nineteenth century. He has published studies of Jabez Bunting
and of Elizabeth Fry, and is now working on a study of American
revivalists in England in the nineteenth century.
W. Edward Mann
Born in Toronto, Edward Mann took his Ph.D. in sociology from the
University of Toronto in 1953. He has taught sociology at various
institutions in Canada and is now assistant professor of
sociology at the University of Western Ontario. After studies at
Trinity College, Toronto, he has served pastorates and was for
five years executive secretary of the Diocesan Council for Social
Service of the Anglican Church in Toronto. Among his publications
are Sect, Cult, and Church in Alberta.
Wolf-Dieter Marsch
Wolf-Dieter Marsch is professor of systematic theology at the
Kirchliche Hochschule, Wuppertal; previously he served for a
number of years as program director of the Evangelical Academy in
Berlin and as student adviser in Göttingen. He wrote his Ph.D.
dissertation at the University of Göttingen on the religious
background of American democracy as illustrated in the life of
Abraham Lincoln (published under the title Christlicher
Glaube und demokratisches Ethos). He has published articles
on Christian social ethics in its encounter with Marxist
philosophy.
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Walter G. Muelder
Walter G. Muelder is dean and professsor of social ethics in
Boston University School of Theology. A minister of The Methodist
Church, he holds S.T.B. and Ph.D. degrees from Boston University
and has taught in Berea College, the University of Southern
California, and the Ecumenical Institute near Geneva. He is
chairman of the Board of the Ecumenical Institute, a member of
the Commission on Faith and Order of the World Council of
Churches, and chairman of its Study Commission on
Institutionalism. His most recent books are Foundations of
the Responsible Society and Methodism and Society in the
Twentieth Century.
Franklin E. Rector
Franklin E. Rector is professor of church and social structure
and director of the Seminary Church Planning and Research Center
at Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis. An ordained
clergyman of the Disciples of Christ, he was graduated from
Phillips University, and, following service as a chaplain during
World War II, he earned his M.S. degree from Oklahoma State
University and his Ph.D. degree from the University of Wisconsin.
He has received the Faculty Research Fellowship grant from the
American Association of Theological Schools, iiul he is a
contributor to several magazines and religious journals, author
and co-author of several religious and secular research studies,
and a lecturer and consultant in church planning and development.
Frederick A. Shippey
A native of New York, Frederick A. Shippey is professor of the
sociology of religion in the Theological and Graduate Schools of
Drew University. Educated at Syracuse University and Yale
Divinity School, he holds a Ph.D. degree from Northwestern
University. Recently he spent a sabbatical year at the Université
de Paris. An ordained clergyman, he earlier served as director of
the Department of Research and Surveys of The Methodist Church’s
Division of National Missions. Author of Church Work in the
City, he has written numerous articles and lectured widely.
He is editor of the Review of Religious Research.
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Eugene L. Ten Brink
As a missionary of the Reformed Church in America, Eugene L. Ten
Brink has been a presbyter of the Church of South India since its
inauguration in 1947, and he now ministers to the faculty and
students of the Christian Medical College and Hospital, Vellore,
as presbyter of St. John’s Church. He has served the C.S.I. as
principal of the Agriculture Institute, Katpadi, and has been on
the national staff of the Student Christian Movement of India.
After graduation from Hope College and New Brunswick Theological
Seminary, he earned his M.S. degree from Cornell University in
psychology and sociology and his Ph.D. from Hartford Seminary
Foundation in church history.
Gibson Winter
As associate professor of ethics and society at The Divinity
School of the University of Chicago, Gibson Winter teaches and
carries on research in the sociology of the churches and problems
in the relationship of theology to the human sciences. He served
in the parish ministry of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the
U.S.A. after completing his B.D. at the Episcopal Theological
School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After serving in the United
States Navy as a chaplain in World War II, he took a doctorate in
the field of Social Relations at Harvard University, initially
using this further study in the work with Francis Ayres of
establishing a lay training center, Parishfield. He is the author
of Love and Conflict: New Patterns in Family Life and
The Suburban Captivity of the Churches.