ニューイングランドの母校から、Richard Reinhold Niebuhr教授ご召天の報告
ニューイングランドの母校から、Richard Reinhold Niebuhr教授ご召天の報告
1966年から1967年、わずか1年の新約聖書修士コースでの生活。しかし専攻科目の直接教授を受けた恩師以外にも、姿を垣間見るに過ぎなかったはずの方々の印象が、50年後の今も鮮やかです。
そうした思い出に残るお一人・Richard Reinhold Niebuhr, Hollis Professor of Divinity Emeritusの召天の報を受け取りました。
Richard Reinhold Niebuhr名誉教授が、Christian History and Interpretation Studies presented to John Knox
の三人の編集者のお一人であることも、私は心に刻んできました。同書は、この50年人生の様々な段階を経てきた今も、手元に残っている数少ない書籍の一冊です。
HDS sadly announces that longtime professor Richard Reinhold Niebuhr, Hollis Professor of Divinity Emeritus, passed away on Sunday, February 26, at the age of 90.
Niebuhr was a renowned theologian, researcher, and scholar, and was an ordained minister in the United Church of Christ.
Born in Chicago in 1926, Niebuhr enlisted in the Navy when he was 18 years old. He graduated from Harvard College in 1947 and received a BD from Union Theological Seminary before completing his PhD in theology from Yale University. He began teaching at HDS in 1956. During the 1980s, he was instrumental in the creation and oversight of the area of the HDS curriculum devoted to Christianity and culture.
As we mourn Professor Niebuhr's passing, we also celebrate his legacy and outstanding teaching career at Harvard and the qualities that earned him the affection of his former students, colleagues, and friends.
