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SUMMER 2021 Rabbis Dennis and Sandy Sasso at Congre- Gation Beth-El Zedeck THE BULLETIN DISCIPLES DIVINITY HOUSE OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO DDH Day-dayenu! Day-dayenu! Previous attempts to arrange field work at non-Christian congregations in Chicago An ebullient melody and clapping had come to no avail, the religious leaders broke out around the table at the and their communities being somewhat (and Passover Seder. Dayenu roughly understandably so) suspicious when contacted about having a Christian MDiv student work translates from Hebrew as “that alone with them. But Clark’s trust and friendship with Dayenu! would have been enough” or “that the Indianapolis Jewish population provided me the opportunity to join Congregation Beth- Rachel Abdoler alone would have sufficed us.” El Zedeck as an intern invited into every facet Inaugural Barbara I joined along singing the thousand-year-old of community life. and Clark Williamson song which joyfully recounts all the blessing When I reflect on Clark as a person and a Scholar and miracles that God had visited on God’s scholar, Dayenu comes to mind. He is the one people, beginning with the Exodus from Egypt: who enabled my presence at that Passover A PhD student in the If God had brought us out of Egypt, but not Seder where I first learned and sang this song, History of Christianity, split the sea, Dayenu! If God had split the sea, and more. When I think of all that Clark has she studies Christian but not fed us manna, Dayenu! given and taught me and others, the senti- theological texts written This was one of the many, many intimate ment of Dayenu is most apt. Had Clark simply in Arabic against a back- moments of communal life I got to join during arranged the internship for me—an internship drop of Christian and my year interning at Congregation Beth-El that is one of the most formative experiences of my personal and academic life—Dayenu! Islamic polemical writing, Zedeck in Indianapolis, made possible through But I did not just get the experience of the and, particularly, the DDH and, particularly, by Clark Williamson. hermeneutical strategy Clark’s warm spirit and serious commitment to CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 of Butrus al-Sadamanti, addressing anti-Judaism in Christian theology enabled his formation of deep relationships an Arabophone Christian with several Jewish religious leaders in Indiana- who wrote in a 13th-century polis. So trusted and profound were these Copto-Islamic milieu. relationships that when I, then a soon-to- be third-year MDiv student, indicated my interest in interning with a non-Christian congregation, Clark was able to arrange for me to spend the 2014–15 academic year with VOL. 91 | NO. 1 | SUMMER 2021 Rabbis Dennis and Sandy Sasso at Congre- gation Beth-El Zedeck. IN MEMORIAM Disciples Divinity lectual, moral, and spiritual formation of House of the Letter from the dean University of Chicago these years will, along with the relationships I have Amidst a challenging year, students LEFT Clark Williamson gives his 2015 1156 East 57th St. formed through this handsome House on 57th Distinguished Alumnus address, “The Disciples: Chicago, Illinois 60637 have nevertheless invested heart, Street, repeatedly buoy me and guide my steps. Mainlined, Sidelined, or Derailed?” 773.643.4411 mind, and soul in their vocations. I’m grateful for what this remarkable institution has Your interest and support have made grammatic expressions that bespeak ddh.uchicago.edu given me, and commit myself to ensuring that it and a mind that is simultaneously penetrating, a difference for them. other institutions like it persist long into our future. insightful, critical, visionary, restive, and BOARD OF TRUSTEES Andrew Packman, a summer 2021 PhD graduate, playful,” according to Ron Allen, a colleague April J. Lewton In September, the 2020 and 2021 graduates will President will become a Louisville Postdoctoral Fellow at at CTS and co-author of several books with United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities. gather for an in-person Convocation, which will Clark. Williamson was self-consciously a Pamela James Jones also mark the conclusion of the 125th and 126th Vice President He reflects on pursuing a vocation of theological “church theologian,” that is, a theologian academic years of the Disciples Divinity House. Mareta J. Smith teaching during the past months: who intended for his work to strengthen Treasurer The 2021 graduates—five Disciples and two the church. A favorite characterization of Paul A. Steinbrecher …There is the usual nervous energy of presenting ecumenical students—were awarded three MDiv, God came from Alfred North Whitehead: two MA, and two PhD degrees. They will go to Secretary oneself and one’s work to others. But there is a that God’s nature “is best conceived, [as] chaplaincy, arts ministry, anti-racism work, and that of a tender care that nothing be lost.” Joan Bell-Haynes deeper vein of intensity rippling through a nation Larry D. Bouchard doctoral programs; they will teach at this univer- Loving questions: Seeking to identify anti-Judaism and that has witnessed the loss of over 600,000 souls Julian DeShazier sity and in a seminary. The four 2020 graduates, anti-Semitism in Christian theology and Teresa Dulyea-Parker in the past year. Along with this horrifying loss of both Disciples and ecumenical students, received Remembering Clark M. Williamson to correct it was a persistent theme of Patricia A. Duncan life, the social and institutional tumult already well MDiv degrees and serve in congregations. Williamson’s life and work. As he said, J. Marshall Dunn underway before the pandemic has grown in its wake. We give thanks for a legacy of learning and Love of questions brought Clark Williamson to DDH as a “I have come to see that loving questions W. Clark Gilpin The need for the kind of intelligent, imaginative, leadership, service in the present, and vision for student and to his pathbreaking work as a Christian theologian. and loving strangers (who bring their Claudia A. Highbaugh the future. That legacy, service, and vision were questions with them) is a requirement of experimental ministry and theological education Sandhya R. Jha exemplified by Clark M. Williamson and Eddie Clark Murray Williamson was born 1957, Clark entered the Divinity School Christian faith. Even more, it is a require- that DDH has prepared me to do could not be Verity A. Jones Evans Griffin. This Bulletin remembers their November 3, 1935, in Memphis, Tennes- as a Disciples Divinity House Scholar. He ment of any authentic spirituality or Angela A. Kaufman greater. And whatever the setting of my future remarkable lives and celebrates the Barbara and see. He grew up in the Taylor Memorial earned BD (1961), AM (1963), and PhD pastoral leadership. After Auschwitz, Cynthia G. Lindner vocational life, I am equally certain that the intel- Clark Williamson Scholarship that bears promise Christian Church in Memphis, where his (1969) degrees from the University of unquestioning faith is pernicious.” His Allison Lundblad into the future. grandfather, J. Murray Taylor, was minis- Chicago. He served as an assistant dean 1982 book, Has God Rejected his People?, Chad H. Martin BELOW PhD grads Mark Lambert and Andrew Packman ter. His grandfather viewed the principal of the Disciples Divinity House and an recognized the searing questions put to Vy T. Nguyen with Administrator Daette Lambert. With gratitude, Kristine A. Culp, Dean calling of the minister to be that of teacher interim minister of University Church. He the Christian community by the Shoah. David A. Vargas of the Christian faith, a perspective that was Paul Tillich’s assistant for Volume III Later books continued this work, includ- Clark M. Williamson† animated Clark’s own approach to theol- of Tillich’s Systematic Theology. Tillich ing A Guest in the House of Israel and the Melinda Keenan Wood three-volume lectionary commentary Gaylord Yu ogy, church, and ministry. referred to Williamson as “my Englisher.” A pioneer in post-Holocaust theology, For his part, Clark had a raft of stories to series co-authored with Ron Allen that STAFF important voice in Process Theology, and share about “Paulus.” provided guidance for Christian preaching without “blaming the Jews” or “dismissing Kristine A. Culp leading Disciples theologian, he was the Clark met Barbara Unger when she Dean author of seventeen books, including his was a student working in the office of the the Law,” as two of the subtitles put it. He Daette G. Lambert systematic theology, Way of Blessing, Way dean of the Divinity School. She earned served on the Committee on the Church Administrator of Life: A Christian Theology (1999), which AB (French) and AM (Linguistics) degrees and the Holocaust of the United States Bruce T. Gumm has just been published in Korean trans- from the University. They married and CONTINUED ON PAGE 15 Building Maintenance lation, and A Guest in the House of Israel: raised a son, Scott. She taught high school Parag M. Shah Post-Holocaust Church Theology (1989). French before serving as Executive Director Director of Finance He was the Indiana Professor of Christian of the ACLU in Indiana, in the US Attorney’s Ryan Haefke Thought Emeritus at Christian Theological Office, and in the Federal Court House in Development Assistant Seminary and its former Vice President Indianapolis. BULLETIN and Dean. An ordained Disciples minister, From 1966 until his retirement in 2002, Winge Design Studio he was an elder, volunteer, and teacher at Clark Williamson was a member of the Design Central Christian Church in Indianapolis. faculty at Christian Theological Seminary Adam Frieberg He was a valued colleague, mentor, (CTS), and became the first occupant of House photography friend, and, for many, a teacher without the Indiana Chair of Christian Thought.
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