1990 Tanner-McMurrin Lecture

“The Change in the Church’s Understanding of the Jewish People”
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Lecture was given: Thursday, February 15, 1990 7:00p.m. Gore auditorium
Seminar was held: Friday, February 16, 1990 11:00a.m. Nunemaker Place

The Reverend Dr. Paul Van Buren is a director of the center of Ethics and religious Pluralism at the Shalom Institute in Jerusalem. He also served as a Honorarprofessor at the University of Heidelberg. Dr. van Buren taught at Temple University in Philadelphia for twenty-two years following seven years at the Episcopal Seminary of the Southwest and three years in the Episcopal parish ministry. He has been a Visiting Professor at Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Andover Newton Theological Seminary, Harvard Divinity School, Union Theological Seminary in New York, and Oxford University. Dr. Van Buren is a member and past president of the American Theological Society and has served since 1980 on the World council of Churches’ consultation on the Church and the Jewish People, and received the 1989 Sir Sigmund Steinburg Award of the international council of Christians and Jews.

Dr. Van Buren earned a BA from Harvard College, and STB from the Episcopal Theological school, and a D. Theol. From the University of Basel, Switzerland, where he studied under Professor Karl Barth.

Dr. Van Buren is the author of numerous articles and books including The Secular Meaning of the Gospel (1963), The Edges of Languages (1972), Discerning the Way (1980), and Christ in Context: A Christology for the Jewish-Christian reality (1988). The latter three volumes are of a four-volume series entitled A Theology of the Jewish-Christian Reality.

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