Dr. Norman Arthur Beck is an Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America is a mainline Protestant denomination headquartered in Chicago, Illinois. The ELCA officially came into existence on January 1, 1988, by the merging of three churches. As of December 31, 2009, it had 4,543,037 baptized members, with 2,527,941 of them...

 pastor, and he serves as the contract pastor of St. John’s Lutheran Church in Stockdale (Denhawken), Texas. He is also a Minnie Stevens Piper Foundation Professor, and writes and speaks about the relationships between Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Also, he is the Poehlmann Professor of Theology and Classical Languages and the Chairman of the Department of Theology and Philosophy at Texas Lutheran University

Texas Lutheran University

Texas Lutheran University is an undergraduate, private, coeducational university affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. The University was founded in 1891, and currently serves approximately 1,400 students each semester....

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Education

• doctorate from Princeton Theological Seminary
• bachelor of divinity from Trinity Lutheran Seminary
• bachelor of arts from Capital University
• honorary doctorate of divinity from Trinity Lutheran Seminary.

Published books

• Anti-Roman Cryptograms in the New Testament: Hidden Transcripts of Hope and Liberation (Revised Edition)
• Mature Christianity: The Recognition and Repudiation of the Anti-Jewish Polemic of the New Testament
• Anti-Roman Cryptograms in the New Testament: Symbolic Messages of Hope and Liberation
• Mature Christianity in the 21st Century (Shared Ground Among Jews and Christians)
• The New Testament: A New Translation and Redaction
• Jesus: The Man a screenplay

Signed statements

He was among the signers of "The Passion of the Christ, Jewish Pain, and Christian Responsibility: A Response to Mel Gibson's Film; A Statement by Concerned Christians" in September, 2004 http://www.muhlenberg.edu/cultural/ijcu/passion%20statement.html. He was among the signers of an "An Open Letter Concerning Religion and Science," signed by members of the clergy and addressed to school board members asking them to continue teaching evolution as sound science, affirming that this did not conflict with religious beliefs http://www.butler.edu/clergyproject/religion_science_collaboration.htm.