164 - With a View to the Future

With a View to the Future

WE take pride and pleasure in announcing that beginning with this July 1987 issue of THEOLOGY TODAY, Craig Dykstra will assume the position of Editor. Dr. Dykstra has been serving as Associate Editor for the past few years with an instinctive sense of the many responsibilities required for editorial supervision of a scholarly quarterly journal.

One does not take on such a demanding position, in addition to a full teaching schedule and all that goes with academic life these days, without a firm commitment to the integrity of theological journalism. We have always believed at THEOLOGY TODAY that our publishing venture is a needed and articulate form of Christian ministry, and not just a routine meeting of deadlines. Dr. Dykstra is sensitive to our journalistic mission, and it took little persuasion from the Chairman of the Editorial Council, Thomas W. Gillespie, and the present Editor, to convince him of this appointment as an opportunity rather than as an added assignment.

Craig Dykstra graduated from the University of Michigan, majoring in philosophy, and from Princeton Theological Seminary (M.Div. and Ph.D.). He has served as an assistant minister at the Westminster Church of Detroit and as associate professor at the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary. In 1994, he was appointed Thomas W. Synnott Professor of Christian Education at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is the author of Vision and Character: A Christian Educator's Alternative to Kohlberg (1991) and editor (with Sharon Parks) of Faith Development and Fowler (1996). He is a member of the Association of Presbyterian Church Educators, the Association of Professors and Researchers in Religious Education, and the Religious Education Association.

The new Editor is assured of the support of a distinguished Editorial Council and an on-the-scene Editorial Advisory Committee. We feet confident that THEOLOGY TODAY will move with the times to interpret in intelligent and critical terms the major trends that emerge in our day for church, theology, and society. With more than 14,000 loyal subscribers, our constituency has never been stronger nor the prospect for advancing our editorial aims more promising.

As for the Editor who has been at this post for more than forty years, he will move upstairs and become Senior Editor. He will keep his toe in the door as long as his presence can be useful.

Hugh T. Kerr