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    VIII. Scientist Schweitzer-Innate Immortality a Greek Derivation

    It is refreshing to note the interest and convictions of professional men outside the ranks of the clergy as concerns this matter of the nature and destiny of man. For example, there is a research radiochemist, Dr. GEORGE K. SCHWEITZER, 8686) GEORGE K. SCHWEITZER (1924-), Baptist, was trained at Central College, Columbia University, the University of Illinois, and New York University, and is now professor of chemistry at the University of Tennessee and research radiochemist with the Atomic Energy Commission at Oak Ridge. He is author of a textbook and numerous scientific papers in the spheres of science, philosophy, and religion. He is active in church work and seminars in religion. Already having a Ph.D. in nuclear chemistry, he is now completing a doctorate in religion. professor of chemistry at the University of Tennessee, also connected with the Atomic Energy Commission at Oak Ridge, and director of health physics for the Nuclear Service Laboratory. He is an active Baptist, and his special religious interests lie in natural science and its relations to Christian faith. Dr. Schweitzer has lectured at more than fifty college and university religious conventions. Interested in this present quest, in letters to the author dated November 2, 1961, and January 17, 1962-from which I quote by permission-Dr. Schweitzer wrote:CFF2 1016.3

    “As I see the innate immortality idea, it is distinctly a Greek derivative. There would appear to be little from the strict Hebrew tradition inherent in the concept; and further, the New Testament writers succumb very little, if at all, to the temptation to ‘baptize’ the idea. I feel that innate immortality fails to do justice to the Creator-creature separation which is such a dominant theme of the Hebrew-Christian historical stream. That which is immortal is divine; and you and I are not divinel The Hebrew-Christian tradition, as I understand it, does not teach the immortality of the soul, but the resurrection of the total man.”CFF2 1017.1

    He cites Dr. Cullmann’s book in confirmation. (On Cullmann, see pages 913-917.)CFF2 1017.2

    “It is very interesting to note that all the creeds of the historic Church look forward to ‘the resurrection of the body,’ not to the immortality of the soul.”CFF2 1017.3

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