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CUMMINGS NAMED ACADEMIC DEAN AT AMERICAN 
BAPTIST SEMINARY OF THE WEST
 The Rev. Dr. George C. L. Cummings, noted 
American Baptist pastor, theologian and longtime faculty 
member at the American Baptist Seminary of the West in 
Berkeley, Calif., has been named academic dean at that 
school.
 Cummings has served at the seminary since 1987 
as Pearl Rawlings Hamilton Professor of Systematic 
Theology.  He is widely respected as a key interpreter of 
Black theology and Latin American liberation theology.  
 Cummings also is senior pastor of Imani 
Community Church in Oakland, Calif.  
He is a member of the American Baptist Churches 
USA General Board, where he is serving on the Executive 
Committee and as parliamentarian.  Among other 
denominational responsibilities he was a member of the 
Review Commission on Denominational Structure and 
Process.
 In announcing the appointment ABSW President 
Dr. Keith Russell noted Cummings' "commitment to critical 
analysis and excellence in ministry."  He added: "We are 
excited about the leadership he will bring...as we seek to 
provide theological education that is multiracial and 
multicultural, evangelical and ecumenical, academic and 
spiritual, theoretical and practical."

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