Bishop, educator and ecumenist, a native of Milwaukee, Vogel was a graduate of Nashotah House Theological Seminary and the University of Chicago and earned a Ph.D. at Harvard University in 1952. The bishop wrote 14 books, including Body Theology: God’s Presence in Man’s World (1973), I Know God Better than I Know Myself (1989), Christ in His Time and Ours (1992), and Radical Christianity and the Flesh of Jesus (1995). He participated in the Consultation on Church Union (1962-66), ARCIC I and II (1969-90), ARC-USA (1964-84) and the fourth Assembly of the World Council of Churches (Nairobi, 1968).

Documents

• ARCIC-II-58-1L ~ Christ, Revelation, and the Ordination of Women
• ARCPJC-4 ~ The Church, Intercommunion, and the Ministry
  Windsor, 9 Jan. 1970
• ARCIC-147B ~ Comment by Bishop Vogel on the Poringland, February 1976 draft
  15 Mar. 1976
• ARCIC-181 ~ Note on Peter in the New Testament
  1977
• ARCIC-222 ~ Christ’s Authority and Ours
  Wychcroft, Surrey, 8 Jan. 1980
• ARCIC-240 ~ Comments on the Liverpool Drafts
  9 Mar. 1981
• ARCIC-II-38-3 ~ Ecclesiological Implications of Response and Reception Procedures
  1985
• Comments on ‘Growth in Communion: A Schema’.
  1987