Dr. Johan Christiaan Beker This is Me

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1. 1. Sermon for May 13, 2001

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   Published on: 11/23/2001   Last Visited: 8/25/2002

   Beker, J. Christiaan, Suffering and Hope: The Biblical Vision and the Human Predicament. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1994.
   
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   -And the late Professor Johan Christiaan Beker, of Princeton Seminary, in a critique of Kushner's thesis, reminded us that the further - and far more difficult - question which Kushner did not even dare to pursue was why good things happen to bad people...! [Beker, Suffering and Hope, pp.
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   -And the late Professor Johan Christiaan Beker, of Princeton Seminary, in a critique of Kushner's thesis, reminded us that the further - and far more difficult - question which Kushner did not even dare to pursue was why good things happen to bad people...! [Beker, Suffering and Hope, pp.

2. 2. Princeton Packet OnLine News: Dr. Johan Christiaan Beker, world-renowned Pauline scholar, dies

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   Published on: 7/20/1999   Last Visited: 4/18/2001

   Princeton Packet OnLine News : Dr. Johan Christiaan Beker , world-renowned Pauline scholar , dies
   
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   Dr. Johan Christiaan Beker , widely heralded as the most significant American New Testament scholar in the last half of this century , died July 12 in Trenton. He was 75. Dr. Beker was a faculty member at Princeton Theological Seminary for 30 years and in 1983 was named the Richard J. Dearborn Professor of New Testament Theology. He retired from that professorship in 1994 , at which point he became a fellow at the Center of Theological Inquiry. He was a world-renowned Pauline scholar and the author of the book Paul the Apostle : The Triumph of God in Life and Thought , a work that probably most changed Pauline scholarship in this century. He also wrote Paul's Apocalyptic Gospel and Suffering and Hope , which included reflections on his own life as a child in Nazi Germany. Dr. Beker is remembered by his students and colleagues as the most genuinely pastoral of all seminary teachers , a man of sensitive caring , according to Dr. Daniel Migliore , a colleague at the seminary. Dr. Beker's courses probed the depths of Paul , and he taught them with a certain irreverence , but always as a true believer and a humble servant of the one about whom he taught , Dr. Migliore said. Dr. Beker was born in Gorsell , Holland , in the years before World War II. He was forced to leave Holland and his family when he was 9 years old , when he went to Germany to work on U-boats in a submarine factory in support of the Nazi war effort. Those years , including a stay in a Berlin hospital during heavy bombardment , forced him to rethink his original goal of becoming a lawyer , and instead inspired him to study the New Testament. In 1948 , he graduated from the University of Utrecht with a bachelor's degree in divinity. He emigrated to the United States and earned a master's degree in sacred theology at Seabury-Western Seminary in Evanston , Ill. , in 1950. He received his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1955. Before joining the Princeton Theological Seminary faculty in 1964 as a visiting professor , he taught in New York at the Union Theological Seminary's Pacific School of Religion. In 1966 , he was promoted to full professor at the Princeton Theological Seminary. In 1983 , he was named to the Dearborn Chair at the Princeton Theological Seminary. Dr. Beker is survived by his wife , Terri Ann Kurosky Beker , and his son , Hendrik David Beker. Seminary officials said there is no official word yet on funeral or memorial services.