Naim Ateek
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The Rev. Dr. Naim Ateek is a Palestinian Christian who lives and serves in Palestine /Israel. He 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. The book laid the foundation of a theology that addresses the conflict over Palestine and explores the political as well as the religious, biblical, and theological dimensions. From a position of faith, Naim seeks to find solutions based on the faith principles of justice, peace, and nonviolence. He has edited and written other books and articles. A former Canon of St. George’s Cathedral, Jerusalem, he lectures widely both at home and abroad.
Naim 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 (CDSP), Berkeley, California. He then returned to Galilee where he started his ministry after being ordained priest in the Episcopal Church. In the early 1980’s he returned to the United States where he completed his doctoral studies at San Francisco Theological Seminary. Dr. Ateek has also received honorary Doctors of Divinity from CDSP, Berkeley, California and the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts; and the distinguished alumni award from San Francisco Theological Seminary. This year, Dr. Ateek received the Sayre award from the Episcopal Peace Fellowship USA.
In 1974, Naim was married to Maha Fuad Aranki of Birzeit, West Bank (Palestine). They have three children, Stefan, Sari, and Nevart.
After 30 years of parish ministry, Naim took an early retirement and dedicated his time to the ministry of Sabeel, Ecumenical Liberation Theology Center that he helped to found at the beginning of the 1990’s. As the president and director of Sabeel, he expanded Sabeel’s ministry both inside the country as well as abroad. In addition to the work of justice and peace, it includes the ecumenical ministry within the Christian community and the inter-faith work between Christians and Muslims.
