Nachruf auf Harold P. Nebelsick (1925-1989

Footnote

Thomas F. Torrance, "Nachruf auf Harold P. Nebelsick (1925-1989 / A Tribute to Harold P. Nebelsick (1925-1989)," Glaube und Denken: Jahrbuch der Karl-Heim-Gesellschaft 3 (1990): 11-9; #1990-526

Bibliography

Torrance, Thomas F. "Nachruf Auf Harold P. Nebelsick (1925-1989 / A Tribute to Harold P. Nebelsick (1925-1989)." Glaube und Denken: Jahrbuch der Karl-Heim-Gesellschaft 3 (1990): 11-19; #1990-526

Publication life cycle / General notes

German and English versions.

Contents

"I first met Harold Nebelsick in October 1953 when he came to Scotland and was enrolled as a Ph.D. candidate in the University of Edinburgh. He had already majored in philosophy at the University of Nebraska and graduated Bachelor of Theology at San Francisco Theological Seminary cum laude. He had been drawn to New College, Edinburgh, by the reputation of John Baillie. That was during the heyday of high ecumenical dialogue that followed the World Conference of Faith and Order at Lund in 1952, in which John Baillie and I were heavily involved. Harold was set to work on the ecclesiology of Charles Gore which he completed in 1956, gaining a distinguished Ph.D. His years of research at New College were fruitfully interlaced with further studies on the Continent, at Gottingen, Berlin, Basel and Paris. Soon his main interest switched from philosophical theology to Christian dogmatics, and he devoured the Church Dogmatics of Karl Barth. At the same time he began to develop his life-long interest in the interrelations between theology and natural science, not least in their underlying epistemological structures..."

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