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As Prof. Hafemann tells it, he first experienced George Eldon Ladd's thought and personality as he sat through the professor introductions during grad school orientation at Fuller Theological Seminary.

Here it was in the evening period of the hippy movement, all the incoming students sported long hair, threadbare jeans, and tie-dyed shirts with buttons declaring, "Jesus is my high," or "I'm friends with Jesus," or "Jesus Freak."

After all the other professors had rambled or quipped through their introductions, George Ladd, a white haired giant of a man, stands up and walks to the microphone. He looks with deadpan expression out the colorful crowd for a moment, and says, "I've never had a religious experience in my life" [pause], "but I believe in the resurrection."

Beautiful.