Prologue II

2021 ◽  
pp. 17-20
Author(s):  
George M. Marsden
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
Blue Ribbon ◽  
Union Theological Seminary ◽  
Blue Ribbon Committee ◽  
Mainline Protestantism

The Rev. Henry Sloane Coffin, ’97, who chaired the blue-ribbon committee that in 1952 answered William F. Buckley Jr. with the categorical conclusion that “religious life at Yale is deeper and richer than it has been in many years,” could recall more distant student days when Yale’s religious life was deeper and richer still. Coffin was a renowned preacher, was the president of Union Theological Seminary in New York City (he had once been a leading candidate for the Yale presidency), and had done as much as anyone to shepherd mainline Protestantism from evangelicalism to theological modernism....

Some Old Patterns for New in Missions

1961 ◽  
Vol 12 (10) ◽  
pp. 1-9
Author(s):  
Herbert C. Jackson
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
Inaugural Address ◽  
Senior Faculty ◽  
Union Theological Seminary ◽  
Quarterly Review

This article constitutes Dr. Jackson's inaugural address as Adjunet Professor on the Senior Faculty of Union Theological Seminary in New York City, delivered on October 25, 1961. It was published in the Union Seminary Quarterly Review. Vol. XVII, No. 1 (Nov. 1961), and is reproduced here by permission of the editors.

Union Theological Seminary and the Christian Church in China

2006 ◽  
Vol 13 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 11-24
Author(s):  
Yihua Xu
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Theological Education ◽  
The United States ◽  
Paul Tillich ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
Christian Church ◽  
Reinhold Niebuhr ◽  
Union Theological Seminary

AbstractUnion Theological Seminary (Union) in New York City, established in 1836, has long been regarded as one of the best and most liberal Protestant theological seminaries in the United States. Served by prominent Christian theologians such as Harry Emerson Fosdick, Reinhold Niebuhr, and Paul Tillich, Union reached its peak development in the first half of the twentieth century, setting a standard of theological education in the United States and promoting the ecumenical movement around the world.

scholarly journals Introduction to the Forum on Dr. James H. Cone as Teacher and Mentor

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 79-80
Author(s):  
Pui-lan Kwok
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Liberation Theology ◽  
York City ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
Black Liberation ◽  
Black Liberation Theology ◽  
Du Bois ◽  
Transformative Impact

Dr. James H. Cone (1938-2018) is widely considered the founder of black liberation theology. He had a transformative impact on generations of his students at Union Theological Seminary in New York City. In the semester following his death in Spring 2018, six of his current and recent doctoral students were gathered to share brief reflections on their experience of Dr. Cone as an inspirational teacher. This Forum collects their edited presentations in six short essays by: Nkosi Du Bois Anderson, Adam Clark, Isaac Sharp, Colleen Wessel-McCoy, Thurman Todd Willison, and Jason Wyman.

George Whitefield Awakens New York City

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joyce D. Goodfriend
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New York City ◽  
York City ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Moral Authority ◽  
Dutch Reformed ◽  
The People ◽  
New Birth ◽  
George Whitefield ◽  
New Yorkers

This chapter examines English evangelist George Whitefield's message of the “new birth” and how it came to resonate among a variety of New Yorkers, including adherents of the orthodox Dutch Reformed and Anglican Churches. Whitefield's influence on New Yorkers is best measured by focusing on his career as it intersected with the city's evolving religious life. In a process similar to that experienced by Dutch Reformed and Scottish Presbyterian traditionalists, devotees of Whitefield's brand of Christianity overcame ingrained habits and embraced novel religious ideas. During his seven-week stretch of preaching from December 1763 to January 1764, Whitefield sparked a religious awakening that touched New Yorkers of all backgrounds. This chapter considers how Whitefield's moral authority, augmented by his charismatic preaching, emboldened the people of New York City dwellers to challenge doctrines and practices they deemed inauthentic and to reject the counsel of men of stature in their churches.

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