Nathan Söderblom 1891
F R E E U N I T Y
***
PRAYER REQUEST
Free Unity
Nathan Söderblom 1891
Archbishop Nathan Söderblom (1866-1931), who as a young Swedish Lutheran, attending a Student Conference at Northfield, Connecticut, in 1891, wrote in his diary,
"Lord, give me humility and wisdom to serve the great cause of the free unity of Thy church."
---
The quote above is to be read in an article from 1972, "Axioms of Ecumenical History" by Henry P. Van Dusen in Theology Today. - A quarterly ecumenical journal of Christian theology publishing articles on a wide range of classical and contemporary issues in Christian theology by many of the finest theologians working today. Theology Today is published by Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, NJ.
Read >> Theology Today, 1972:3
---
Henry P. Van Dusen has been a leader in the ecumenical movement and a witness to the "axioms" of its history which he describes. Educated at Princeton University, the University of Edinburgh, and Union Theological Seminary in New York, he taught for many years at Union and served as its President for eighteen years until 1963.
---
Bertil E. Gärtner Professor of New Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary 1965-1970
/DS
