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Echols, James (Personal Name)

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  • Echols, James Kenneth, -2018

I have a dream, 2004: ECIP t.p. (James Echols) data view (Echols, James; President, Lutheran School of Theology, Chicago)

Philly.com, via WWW, viewed Jan. 2, 2019 (in obituary dated Dec. 27, 2018: The Rev. James Kenneth Echols, 67, of Philadelphia, a noted scholar and the first African American to serve as president of a North American Lutheran seminary and as the academic dean at the former Lutheran Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, died Sunday, Dec. 23, from complications after falling in his Philadelphia home last week. Born and raised in Philadelphia; attended Lutheran Theological Seminary, earning his master's degree in divinity; attended Yale University, studying psychology, religion, and theology, obtaining another master's and his doctorate; in 1982, Pastor Echols became the first African American professor at Lutheran Theological Seminary (now United Lutheran Seminary), and from 1991 through 1997 served as dean; in 1997, he was appointed president of the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, where he remained for 14 years; served as director of the Theological Education and Networks Office of the Bishop of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America prior to his retirement)

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