1. Naim Stifan Ateek was born on in the Palestinian village of Beisan in 1937 and is a Palestinian priest in the Anglican Communion and founder of the Sabeel Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center in Jerusalem.
13 Facts About Naim Ateek
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Naim Ateek has been an active leader in the shaping of the Palestinian liberation theology.
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Naim Ateek was the first to articulate a Palestinian theology of liberation in his book, Justice, and only Justice, a Palestinian Theology of Liberation, published by Orbis in 1989, and based on his dissertation for his degree in theology.
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Naim Ateek has said that Beisan was destroyed by Israeli forces, turning his family into refugees.
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Naim Ateek was ordained as a priest in the Anglican Communion in 1967.
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Naim Ateek holds degrees from Hardin-Simmons University in Texas and the Church Divinity School of the Pacific in California.
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Naim Ateek earned his BA degree from Hardin-Simmons University, Abilene, Texas, in 1963, and his Master of Divinity degree in 1966 from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, California.
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Naim Ateek has received honorary Doctors of Divinity from the Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, California, and the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and the distinguished alumni award from San Francisco Theological Seminary.
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In 2006, Naim Ateek received the Sayre award from the Episcopal Peace Fellowship USA.
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Naim Ateek served as Canon of St George's Cathedral in Jerusalem and as parish priest in Haifa and Nazareth.
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Naim Ateek outlined his disagreement with what he sees as Zionist interpretations of the Hebrew Bible in his 1989 book, Justice, and Only Justice: A Palestinian Theology of Liberation:.
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Naim Ateek is with them when their homes are shelled by tanks and helicopter gunships.
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Naim Ateek is with them in their towns and villages, in their pains and sorrows.