A Vision for Man. Essays on Noteworthy Faith, Theology and Society, in Six persons have been selected to receive research grants under the fourth annual Honour of Joshua Russell Walsh-Price Fellowship Program sponsored by the Fathers and Broth­ Chandran. ers, the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America. The fellowship program, administered by Maryknoll's Mission Research and Edited by Amiriham. Madras: Chris­ Planning Department, was established to provide scholars with an opportunity to tian Literature Society, 1978. Pp. o, 416. pursue intensive and productive research leading to the enhancement of the $5.00. church's mission to the world. It is named in honor of the founders of the mission society, James A. Walsh and Father Thomas Frederick Price. Henry P. Van Dusen, when he was According to Father Clarence Engler, M.M., director of the Mission Research president of Union Theological Semi­ and Planning Department, the program was created specifically "to invite scholars nary in , told me that "Unit­ from outside the Maryknoll community to utilize their academic and philosophi­ ed Theological College in is cal skills to further the global mission of the Church through research, education the finest theological seminary in and communication." He adds that "relevance to contemporary cross-cultural Asia." I had asked because Russell mission was the major criterion for final selection of the proposals submitted." Chandran, the principal, had written The award winners and the areas in which they will pursue their fellowship inviting me to teach there. When I set­ study are as follows: tled into my first teaching position at Bangalore I discovered that Van Dusen Dr. Kwang-Sun Suh, theologian and educator in Korea, is former was probably right, and the reason was dean of the College of Arts and Science at Ewha University. His research title is Russell Chandran's imagination, ener­ Minjung Theology: A Liberation Theology in Korea. He proposes to delineate the mean­ gy, and blunt self-confidence. Those ing of the recent development of minjung theology in Korea as well as its implica­ who have worked with him and tions for the formation of an indigenized theology and its consequent effect on known him well remember occasional the mission of the church in Korea today. intimidation, regular respect, and Mr. Phillip Berryman, Philadelphia, Central America Representative of the growing admiration, flowering most American Friends Service Committee, has entitled his research Central America, often in deep affection. A totally un­ Crux Theologica: Issues Raised by the Participation of Christians in Revolutionary Processes. He pretentious man, he has built a major will trace how these new issues have arisen in the practices of Christians, how center for theological education out of an endless fund of new ideas and an they are formulated in Central America, and what their significance is for the earthy gift for making things happen. wider church. Samuel Amirtham, one of Russell's Father Edicio de la Torre, S.V.D., was chaplain of the Federation of Free most gifted colleagues, has edited an Farmers of the Philippines. He worked with social-action groups and community impressive testimony by former stu­ organizations prior to his arrest and imprisonment, without a trial, from 1975 to dents, colleagues, and friends. 1980. He is presently studying in Europe. His research topic is The Ecclesiology of The contributors to the Festschrift Liberation in thePhilippines. come from various groups with whom Dr. Maria Patricia Fernandez, San Francisco, holds postdoctoral fellowships Chandran has worked, and on whom at the University of California, Berkeley, and the Inter-American Foundation. She his influence has been felt: ecumenical is a visiting Scholar at the Center for Latin American Studies at Stanford Universi­ colleagues like Philip Potter and J. Robert Nelson; fellow Indian educators ty and Researcher at the Centro de Estudios Sociologicos, EI Colegio de Mexico. like Chandran Devanesan; colleagues The title of her research project is A Cross-Cultural Study of Free- Trade Zone Industrial­ from the Christian Peace Conference ization in Asia and theMenan American Border. like Karoly Toth of Prague; Dr. GeorgeC. Bond, Teaneck, New Jersey, is Associate Professor of Anthro­ colleagues like Hunter Harrison, his pology and Education, School of Philosophy and the Social Sciences, Teachers predecessor as principal at Bangalore, College, Columbia University. His research title is Patterns of Religious Conversion in and Harold Moulton; of the Northern Zambia. He seeks to relate patterns of conversion to to kin­ Church of South like Lesslie ship, status, and changing occupational structures. Newbigin and Ananda Rao Samuel; Father Jeffrey L. Klaiber, S.J., Dr. Theol., is Associate Professor of Theology and students who have gone on to and Peruvian History at the Universidad del Pacifico, Lima, Peru. His fellowship make their mark in theological educa­ tion and the life of the church-Arvind research title is Church andSociety.in Peru, 1821-1980. He plans to do an interpretive Nirmal, Wesley Ariarajah, Gnana Rob­ overview of the interrelations between the church and the lower classes, with spe­ inson, K. C. , and others too cial reference to the emergence of the "Popular Church." numerous to mention. It is an enor­ mously impressive testimony to a widely influential man. The essays are divided into four SelIg Oak Colleges categories: the Man and His Ministry; Theology and Theological Education; Church and Mission; and Faith and So- Birmingham, U. K. The Dean of Mission Applications. are invited from suitable candidates for the post of Dean of Mission/Head of the Department of Mission, from 1st Leroy S. Rouner, formerly on thefaculty of United September 1982. Further particulars from Secretary, Mission Theological College, Bangalore, India, is now Profes­ Department, Selly Oak Colleges, Birmingham B29 6~Q, U.K. sor of Philosophical Theology at Boston University Closing date ·30th November 1981. School of Theology.

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