Walter Wink is a professor emeritus

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 at Auburn Theological Seminary in New York City

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. His faculty discipline is Biblical interpretation

Biblical hermeneutics

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. Wink earned his 1959 Master of Divinity and his 1963 Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary

Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York

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 in New York City

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. Ordained a Methodist minister in 1961, he served as Pastor of First United Methodist Church, in Hitchcock, Texas

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 from 1962–67. He then returned to Union Seminary as first Assistant, then Associate Professor of New Testament. In 1989–1990, he was a Peace Fellow at the United States Institute of Peace

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He is known for his work on power structure

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s, with a progressive Christianity

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 view on current political and cultural matters.