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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 30 January 2009
Arthur C. Cochrane has spent a lifetime recalling the Christian church to its vocation: confessing faith in Jesus Christ as the one Lord and Savior proclaimed in Holy Scripture; confessing sin; and submitting in freedom to the ethic which springs from sole reliance on Christ. The vocation has given focus to many concerns. He has worked to invigorate Christian understanding of the role of confessions of faith, to revive careful study of Reformation theologians, and to develop appreciation of the contribution of Karl Barth. He has engaged in ecumenical dialogue, fostered ecumenical relationships, and worked to arouse Christians to ethical response concerning the poor, worship, the state and war. He has been acutely sensitive to the constant need to determine a Christian response to challenging contemporary events, whether horrors or opportunities.
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page 467 note 4 Cochrane, , The Church's Confession under Hitler, 13–14.Google Scholar
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page 468 note 6 Ibid., xvii.
page 468 note 7 Ibid., 133.
page 468 note 8 Ibid., 123, 142–145.
page 469 note 9 Ibid., xix.
page 469 note 10 Ibid., 25.
page 469 note 11 Ibid., 24.
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page 470 note 13 Dubuque, Iowa, U.S.A. He remained until 1970 serving also as head of the Division of History and Theology, dean of postgraduate studies, and acting dean of the seminary. Beginning 1971 he spent four years at Pittsburgh Theological Seminary as Professor of Systematic Theology. In 1976 he returned to Dubuque as Visiting Ecumenical Professor of Systematic Theology at Wartburg Seminary. The University of Dubuque Theological Seminary named him Professor of Systematic Theology Emeritus in 1977. He now lives in retirement in Dubuque.
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page 471 note 16 For full text see: ‘A Statement concerning the Use of the Means of Mass Extermination in the Waging of War’, Presbyterian Outlook, 29 February 1960, 5; ‘A Statement concerning the Use of the Means of Mass Extermination in the Waging of War’, Presbyterian Life, 15 March 1960; and Cochrane, Arthur C., The Mystery of Peace (Elgin, Illinois: Brethren Press, 1986), 167–169.Google Scholar
page 472 note 17 Minutes of Seminary Faculty Meeting, 4 January 1960 (Theological Seminary, University of Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa, 1960), 2. The signatories were David I. Berger, Donald G. Bloesch, Arthur C. Cochrane, George B. Ehlhardt, Robert M. Healey, Joseph L. Mihelic, and C. Howard Wallace.
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page 474 note 25 Arthur C. Cochrane, letter to Rev. J. Stanley Glen (Archives, Ficke- Laird Library, University of Dubuque, 13 September, 1968).
page 474 note 26 In addition to membership on the editorial board of The Journal of Ecumenical Studies, he served the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A. as delegate in the Reformed-Roman Catholic Consultation in the U.S.A., the Lutheran-Reformed Consultation in the U.S.A., and on the Theological Committee of the North American Area Council of the World Alliance of Reformed Churches.
page 476 note 27 Cochrane, Arthur C., ‘The Confession of 1967, Ecumenism, and COCV,’ McCormick Quarterly 22, no. 3 (March 1969): 176–178Google Scholar. Cochrane, Arthur C., Eating and Drinking with Jesus (Philadelphia: The Westminster Press, 1974), 149–155Google Scholar. Cochrane, Arthur C., ‘The Act of Confession–Confessing’, Sixteenth Century Journal 8, no. 4 (1977): 72CrossRefGoogle Scholar. n. 24. Cochrane, . The Mystery of Peace, 187, n. 13.Google Scholar
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page 477 note 33 Cochrane, , The Existentialists and Cod, 120Google Scholar. See The Constitution of the Prestyterian Church (U.S.A.) (Louisville, KY: The Office of General Assembly, 1991)Google Scholar, 7.004. Cochrane's observation is true for the answer to Question 4 ‘What is God?’ In fairness, one should add that love, mercy, and grace are attributed to God many times elsewhere in the catechism; see 7.020, 7.033–36, 7.049, 7.086–87, 7.094, 7.096, 7.102–3, 7.105, 7.108.
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