wfn.org | Chalice Press adds academic emphasis to publishing operation

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Date: September 22, 1997
Disciples News Service
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Contact: Clifford L. Willis
Email: CWillis@oc.disciples.org
on the web: http//www.disciples.org

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     ST. LOUIS (DNS) -- The book-publishing arm of the Christian
Church (Disciples of Christ) is adding a scholarly emphasis to its
operation with the hiring of a Louisville, Ky., scholar as academic editor.

     Jon L. Berquist begins Nov. 1 as academic editor of Chalice Press,
according to Cyrus N. White, president of Christian Board of Publication.
The Rev. David P. Polk, editor of Chalice Press since 1990, will be named
editor-in-chief.

     Berquist, an author and Old Testament scholar, is currently
acquisitions editor for Westminster/John Knox Press, the book-publishing
arm of the Louisville-based Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.).

     The new editor has a doctor of philosophy in Hebrew Bible from
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, and has been associate professor of Old
Testament at Disciples-related Phillips Theological Seminary, Tulsa, Okla.
He also is the author of numerous books, journal articles and scholarly
papers.

     The initial focus of the academic line will be on biblical,
theological and homiletical studies and will include the works of
established authors and new voices in the scholarly community, said
White.

     "Until now we have given limited attention to the needs of the
academic and scholarly communities," White said. "Yet many of the
significant voices in the religious academy of this century have come from
the Disciples' tradition." The new publishing emphasis will provide fresh
content that provides access "to the foremost catalysts for Christian
thought and praxis."

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