JAN PAULSEN: WORLD SDA PRESIDENT

Jan Paulsen
Born	January 5, 1935 (1935-01-05) (age 72) Narvik, Norway
Occupation	President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists
Spouse	Kari Trykkerud

Jan Paulsen (born 1935 in Narvik, Norway) was elected President of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists on March 1, 1999, at the age of 64. The election occurred as part of a special meeting of the General Conference Executive Committee.

1 Presidential Service 2 Previous Roles 3 Biographical Notes 4 Publications

Presidential Service

Paulsen was reelected to the office of President at the 57th General Conference Session in Toronto, Canada in 2000. During this term Paulsen's office was responsible for the initiation of such programs as Go One Million, Faith & Science Dialogues, and Sow One Billion. Paulsen has also taken the initiative to open dialogue between the youth of the church through his Let's Talk campaign. On July 1, 2005, Paulsen was again reelected to the office during the 58th General Conference Session in St. Louis, Missouri.

Previous Roles

Pastor Paulsen was vice-president of the General Conference from 1995 until his appointment as president. Prior to that he was president of the Trans-European Division from 1983 to 1995. He has also been a pastor, a departmental leader, a teacher, college president, and has authored several books.

Biographical Notes

Paulsen was born on January 5, 1935 in Narvik, Norway to Adventist parents. Baptised at the age of 14, Paulsen attended Vejlefjord high school in Denmark and graduated in 1954. On July 1 of 1955, Paulsen married Kari Trykkerud, with whom he has had three children: Laila (1961), Jan-Rune (1963) and Rein Andre (1970).

Paulsen studied theology in Denmark before obtaining a Bachelor of Theology from Andrews University. He would then go on to obtain his master's degree from Potomac University. Paulsen also has a Bachelor of Divinity from the Adventist Theological Seminary at Andrews University. Paulsen is also the first Adventist Church world president to hold a doctorate degree, which he obtained from the University of Tubingen.******

A native of Norway, Paulsen is the third non-American president of the world Church.

Publications

• When the Spirit Descends (Review & Herald, 2001) - ISBN 0-8280-1448-5
• Let Your Life So Shine (Pacific Press, 2003) - ISBN 0-8163-1948-0

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Paulsen

P.S.Bolds and Italics used to emphasize:

****** UNIVERSITY OF TUBINGEN:

Ratzinger became an admirer of Karl Rahner, a well-known academic theologian of the Nouvelle Théologie and a proponent of church reform.

In 1966, Joseph Ratzinger was appointed to a chair in dogmatic theology at the University of Tübingen******, where he was a colleague of Hans Küng. In his 1968 book Introduction to Christianity, he wrote that the pope has a duty to hear differing voices within the Church before making a decision, and he downplayed the centrality of the papacy. He also wrote that the Church of the time was too centralized, rule-bound and overly controlled from Rome ^{[citation needed]}. During this time, he distanced himself from the atmosphere of Tübingen and the Marxist leanings of the student movement of the 1960s that quickly radicalized, in the years 1967 and 1968, culminating in a series of disturbances and riots in April and May 1968.

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI

Pope Benedict XVI at a private audience on January 20, 2006.

Benedict XVI was elected Pope at the age of 78. He is the oldest person to have been elected Pope since Pope Clement XII (1730–40). He had served longer as a cardinal than any Pope since Benedict XIII (1724–30).

GREAT ALMA MATER, NO?

It seems as if great men, men of prominent positions proceed from Ze University of Tubingen!

There are '2' that I can count readily. Blogmaster.