Edwin T. Dahlberg
Edwin T. Dahlberg (27 December 1892 – September 1986) was an American Baptist church leader. He was known for his strong efforts to promote social justice and peacemaking.[1]
Biography
The Reverend Edwin T. Dahlberg was President of American Baptist Churches USA, (1946–1947) and President of the National Council of Churches USA (1957–1960). He helped found the Fellowship of Reconciliation and the Baptist Peace Fellowship. He advocated pacifism during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War, ultimately receiving the Gandhi Peace Award. A graduate of Colgate Rochester Divinity School, he later served as trustee of his alma mater.[2]
American Baptist Churches USA named the Dahlberg Peace Award after pastor Dahlberg. In 1964 Martin Luther King Jr. was the first recipient.
Selected works
- Youth and the Homes of Tomorrow (1942)
- The Book of Revival (1951)
- In the Unity of the Faith (1960)
- This is the rim of East Asia (1962)
- Herald of Evangel;: 60 years of American Christianity (1965)
Quote
For where the need of the world and your talents meet, that is where you are called of God to go.
— Rev. Edwin T. Dahlberg, [3]
References
Other sources
Dahlberg, Keith Edwin T. Dahlberg, Pastor, Peacemaker, Prophet (Valley Forge, Pennsylvania: Judson Press 1998)ISBN 978-0817012779
External links
- National Council of Churches Presidents
- Dahlberg Peace Award
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- 1960 Eleanor Roosevelt / Edwin T. Dahlberg
- 1961 Maurice Eisendrath / John Haynes Holmes
- 1962 Linus Pauling / James Warburg
- 1963 E. Stanley Jones
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- 1966 A. J. Muste
- 1967 Norman Thomas / Jerome Davis / William Sloane Coffin
- 1968 Benjamin Spock
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- 1970 Wayne Morse / Willard Uphaus
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- 1972 U Thant
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- 1975 Dorothy Day
- 1976 Daniel Ellsberg
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- 1978 Peter Benenson / Martin Ennals
- 1979 Roland Bainton
- 1980 Helen Caldicott
- 1981 Corliss Lamont
- 1982 Randall Watson Forsberg
- 1983
- 1984 Robert Jay Lifton / Kay Camp
- 1985
- 1986 Bernard Lown
- 1987 John Somerville
- 1988
- 1989 César Chávez
- 1990 Marian Wright Edelman
- 1991 George McGovern
- 1992 Ramsey Clark
- 1993 Lucius Walker
- 1994 Roy Bourgeois
- 1995 Edith Ballantyne
- 1996 New Haven-León Sister City Project
- Alan Wright
- Paula Kline
- 1997 Howard / Alice Frazier
- 1998
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- 2002 Michael True
- 2003 Dennis Kucinich
- 2004 Karen Jacob / David Cortright
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- 2011 Ehud Bandel / Arik Ascherman
- 2012 Amy Goodman
- 2013 Bill McKibben
- 2014 Medea Benjamin
- 2015 Tom B.K. Goldtooth / Kathy Kelly
- 2016
- 2017 Ralph Nader / Omar Barghouti
- 2018 Jackson Browne