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Published on: 10/16/2003
Last Visited: 2/23/2009
The second chair of the Theological Commission was Rev. Dr. Arthur M. Climenhaga . He was part of the original movement to form the TC and became Vice-Chair in 1975.
With the accidental death of the first chair, Dr. Byang Kato, in 1975, Dr. Climenhaga took over leadership, serving from 1975-80.
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Dr. Climenhaga worked as a Bishop of the Brethren in Christ in Zambia and Zimbabwe in the 1950s and then as President of Messiah College, Grantham, Pa. - 1960-64 and Executive Director, National Association of Evangelicals, Wheaton , Ill. - 1964-67.
He later took up church leadership in his denomination again, and served in academic roles at Western Evangelical Seminary, Portland, Oregon and at Ashland Theological Seminary, Ashland, Ohio.
In his retirement, Dr. Climenhaga is Representative-at-Large for Brethren in Christ World Missions and exercises a Bible teaching and evangelistic ministry under the umbrella title of 'Resource Ministries.'
While NAE Executive Director in the 1960s Dr. Climenhaga delivered a paper on universalism at the Wheaton Congress on the 'Church's World-wide Mission' and also at the Berlin Congress on Evangelism.