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Arthur Katz
Arthur "Art" Katz (13 Feb 1929 Brooklyn, NY – 28 Jun 2007 Laporte, MN) was an American author and Christian preacher who traveled the world teaching an alternative to what he described as today's "make nice" Christianity.[clarification needed] Born to Jewish parents, he became a self-proclaimed Marxist/atheist, and then was converted to Christianity while taking a year sabbatical from his Oakland, California, teaching job and traveling through Europe in 1963. Early lifeKatz was born to Jewish parents and raised in Brooklyn, New York.[1] He attended Santa Monica City College, University of California, Los Angeles, and the University of California, Berkeley, earning B.A. and M.A. degrees in history and an M.A. degree in theology at Luther Seminary, Saint Paul, Minnesota.[citation needed] Conversion and ministry
In his book Ben Israel: Odyssey of a Modern Jew, Katz describes encounter after encounter with Christians who defied the stereotype he held,[clarification needed] and, after reading a portion of the New Testament, added:
Katz became a Christian shortly thereafter[when?] and married a Danish woman he met on the trip, Inger, with whom he raised three children. Katz made his mark as a preacher during the 1970s,[2] appearing on such television programs as Kathryn Kuhlman's I Believe in Miracles.[3] He continued preaching up until the year he died. During his early years, Katz preached against what he described as the lack of character, seriousness and proper motivations of Christians. He spent his later years talking about what he called the coming destruction and redemption of the Jewish people and their relationship with Christians. Katz was a founder of the Ben Israel Fellowship in Laporte, Minnesota, in 1975 (ref. Ben Israel Newsletter Summer 1975) with this stated vision: "a rugged discipleship training camp for end-time ministries (particularly to the Jewish people); a year-round convocation center for the preparation of God's people; a permanent community of committed believers out of which ministries will be nurtured and sent forth and finally, a refuge for entire Jewish families whom we expect to be swept into the Kingdom at a soon-coming time."[citation needed] Except for a sabbatical from late 1985 to early 1987, Katz lived at Ben Israel (when he wasn't ministering worldwide) until his death in 2007 and hosted a summer-long "prophet school" where people from around the world would come, live together in a communal setting and learn from Katz and others about the prophetic life Katz believed Christians were called to.[citation needed] Books by Katz
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