An Unpublished Journal of George Whitefield

1938 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 297-345 ◽  
Author(s):  
Earnest Edward Eells
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Revolutionary War ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
Presbyterian Church ◽  
First Presbyterian Church ◽  
Princeton Theological Seminary ◽  
George Whitefield

An unpublished journal of Rev. George Whitefield, detailing his life from October 17th, 1744, to some time in the spring of 1745, has been in the Princeton Theological Seminary Library since June, 1816. It bears an inscription showing that it was given to the seminary by Dr. John R. B. Rodgers, the famous pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of New York. Probably it was a part of the papers which Dr. Rodgers is said to have guarded and carried about in a trunk during the Revolutionary War.

Presbyterianism in the United States and Canada in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries

2019 ◽  
pp. 71-96
Author(s):  
Bradley J. Longfield
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
The United States ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
Biblical Authority ◽  
Presbyterian Church ◽  
Union Theological Seminary ◽  
Presbyterian Church In Canada ◽  
Princeton Theological Seminary

This chapter traces the history of Presbyterians in the United States and Canada from the turn of the twentieth century to the early twenty-first century. It considers the predecessor denominations to the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.) as well as the Associate Reformed Presbyterian Church, Cumberland Presbyterian Church, ECO (Covenant Order of Evangelical Presbyterians), Evangelical Presbyterian Church, Orthodox Presbyterian Church, Presbyterian Church in America, and the Presbyterian Church in Canada, among others. It investigates theological, liturgical, missional, and educational developments in these denominations and analyzes conflicts over biblical authority and interpretation, confessionalism, communism, civil rights, sexuality, marriage, ordination, race, and the role of women in the church. The theological movements examined include confessional conservatism, evangelicalism, feminist theology, fundamentalism, liberalism, and neo-orthodoxy. Significant institutions noted include Erskine Seminary, Fuller Theological Seminary, Knox College, Princeton Theological Seminary, Union Theological Seminary in New York, Union Theological Seminary in Virginia, and Westminster Theological Seminary.

The Travails of Becoming a University, 1888-1902

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
P. C. Kemeny
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Practical Knowledge ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
Presbyterian Church ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Promised Land ◽  
Future Direction ◽  
Princeton Theological Seminary ◽  
The University ◽  
Knox College

In bringing the College of New Jersey to the brink of university status, McCosh stood on the verge of the promised land. As the nineteenth century was coming to a close, alumni, professors, and trustees in Princeton, like those at many other American colleges and universities, were eager to see the institution position itself so that it would be better able to meet society’s need for moral and thoughtful leaders, practical knowledge, and scientific expertise once the nation entered the twentieth century. With the future direction of the institution hanging in the balance, the choice of who should succeed McCosh divided the college community along the same lines as had emerged earlier over both the alumni’s attempt to secure direct representation on the Board of Trustees and McCosh’s failed attempt to make the college a university. Whereas McCosh harmoniously upheld the college’s dual mission through the breadth of his scholarly interests, the warmth of his evangelical piety, and the force of his personality, the two candidates who vied for the presidency after his resignation possessed only a portion of McCosh’s qualities and appealed to only one part of the Princeton community. Francis L. Patton appealed to those primarily, though not exclusively, interested in preserving Princeton’s heritage as an evangelical college. According to McCosh, the “older men” among the trustees, faculty, and alumni “want a minister,” and on these grounds, the forty-five-year-old Patton seemed like a natural successor to McCosh. A native of Bermuda, Patton had graduated from University College of the University of Toronto; had attended Knox College, also of the University of Toronto; and had graduated from Princeton Theological Seminary in 1865. Ordained that same year in the Old School Presbyterian church, he served as pastor of a church in New York City. Cyrus H. McCormick (1809-1884), the farming machine magnate and patron of conservative Presbyterian causes, persuaded Patton to accept a position as the Professor of Didactic and Polemical Theology at the Presbyterian Seminary of the Northwest (later McCormick Theological Seminary) in Chicago in 1873.

scholarly journals A Teologia Protestante de Rubem Alves

Numen ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronaldo de Paula Cavalcante
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Paulo Freire ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
Theological Interpretation ◽  
Union Theological Seminary ◽  
Princeton Theological Seminary ◽  
Theology Of Liberation ◽  
The Revolution

Precisamente neste ano de 2019, que nós celebramos o jubileu da publicação da obra A Theology of Human Hope de Rubem Alves (1933-2014), fruto de uma tese de doutoramento defendida no ano anterior por ele no Princeton Theological Seminary. Seu título original era Towards a Theology of Liberation, que foi mudado por questões editoriais. Pouco conhecido, entretanto, foi seu primeiro trabalho acadêmico – dissertação de mestrado defendida em 1964 no Union Theological Seminary (New York) – A Theological Interpretation of the Meaning of the Revolution in Brazil. Rubem Alves, muito influenciado por Richard Shaull, e indiretamente por teólogos como: Barth, Rauschenbush, Bonhoeffer, Niebuhr, Cox, pelo testemunho missionário de Albert Schweitzer e pelas reflexões de Paulo Freire e da ISAL, como também pelos resultados da Conferência do Nordeste (1962) conseguiu amalgamar esta nova teologia protestante, sendo o pioneiro protestante a utilizar as expressões “revolução” (1963) e “libertação” (1968) em trabalhos acadêmicos de cunho religioso, alterando permanentemente a vocação da teologia no Brasil. Para além dessa celebração, a pesquisa de mestrado de Rubem Alves indicava a emergência de um novo movimento na Teologia latino-americana, muito embora ele não possa ser nomeado como um teólogo da libertação stricto sensu, suas ideias teológicas sobre a revolução foram um tipo de preâmbulo ao que viria na sequência.

scholarly journals Alfred Newton Richards, 1876-1966

1967 ◽  
Vol 13 ◽  
pp. 327-342 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
New England ◽  
College Education ◽  
Total Income ◽  
Presbyterian Church ◽  
Best Friend ◽  
First Presbyterian Church ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Future

Alfred Newton Richards was born in Stamford, New York, U.S.A., on 22 March 1876, the youngest of three sons of the Rev. Leonard E. and Mary Elizabeth (Burbank) Richards. His father, who was pastor of the First Presbyterian Church in Stamford from 1864 until his death in 1903, was a descendant of Godfrey Richards, an emigrant from the Rhenish Palatinate to Pennsylvania about 1740. His mother’s ancestors came from England to New England prior to 1640 and, unlike the Richards line (all of whom were farmers), many of them received a college education and several (including her father) were clergymen. She herself was teaching at a school in Norwalk, Ohio, when she first met her future husband. At the time she lived in the home of the Rev. Alfred Newton, who is still referred to as one of the most influential and beloved of Norwalk’s inhabitants, and whose daughter, Martha Newton, was the future Mrs Richards’s best friend. This is the source of the name Alfred Newton Richards. Life in the Richards’s home in Stamford centred around church activities and, by present standards, was quite austere. During most of the period the total income was less than $1000 a year, on which the family maintained a universally respected position in community affairs, put three sons through college, and set enough money aside to keep Mrs Richards in her home after her husband’s death without assistance from her sons or anybody else. In Dr Richards’s own words: ‘We were poor, but like Eisenhower’s folks we were unaware of it.’

A View from Within: The LGBTQ Struggle at Princeton Theological Seminary

2018 ◽  
Vol 74 (4) ◽  
pp. 347-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Henry Wall
Keyword(s):  
Theological Seminary ◽  
Student Organization ◽  
Presbyterian Church ◽  
History Of ◽  
Lgbtq Students ◽  
Princeton Theological Seminary ◽  
The Impact

This article is a summary of the history of the LGBTQ movement on the campus of Princeton Theological Seminary from the perspective of the author, David H. Wall, who was a student (1979–1980) and served in the administration from 1980 to 2016. Wall describes his own journey as a gay Christian, along with a series of events and people that contributed to changes within the PTS community and the Presbyterian church from condemnation to welcome of LGBTQ people and their allies. Many LGBTQ students’ stories are included. The impact and work of the student organization CLGC (Church and Lesbian/Gay Concerns), later named BGLASS is covered as the organization’s leadership and mission evolved from a focus on education to one of advocacy. Included are the roles of the faculty and administration.

Continental Influence on American Christian Thought Since World War I

1958 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 256-272 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sydney E. Ahlstrom
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
New York ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
World War I ◽  
Immanuel Kant ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
World War ◽  
Ecclesiastical History ◽  
Christian Thought ◽  
Princeton Theological Seminary

Just after the turn of the nineteenth century, the Rev. Samuel Miller, then a Presbyterian minister in New York but soon to become a professor of ecclesiastical history at the newly-founded Princeton Theological Seminary, published his ambitious Retrospect of the Eighteenth Century. He remarks in due course that “it would be improper to pass in silence the celebrated IMMANUEL KANT, Professor at Koeningsberg, in Prussia.” He then goes on to comment on the “extravagant panegyrics” of Kant's disciples, but having heard “that the acutest understanding cannot tolerably comprehend [this profound and extensive system] by less than a twelve-month's study,” he satisfied himself with a brief second-hand report. The incident might be considered an accurate commentary on the state of “Continental influence on American Christian thought” in 1803.

Why do Pastors Preach on Social Issues?

1975 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hart M. Nelsen ◽  
Samuel W. Blizzard
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Black Church ◽  
Social Issues ◽  
National Council ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
Catholic University ◽  
Union Theological Seminary ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
National Council Of Churches ◽  
Princeton Theological Seminary

Editor's note: The following article was prepared in honor of Samuel W. Blizzard, who, after a long and distinguished teaching career, is taking early retirement because of ill health. Since 1957, he has been Professor of Christianity and Society at Princeton Theological Seminary, and since 1970, he has held the Maxwell M. Upson Professorship of Christianity and Society at Princeton. He has also taught at Pennsylvania State University and Union Theological Seminary in New York, as well as serving as the director of both the Russell Sage Foundation's Training for the Ministry Project from 1953 to 1960 and the National Council of Churches' Clergy Research Project from 1957 to 1958. He is the co-author with Emory J. Brown of The Church and the Community and has contributed essays and articles to more than forty books, scholarly journals, and popular periodicals. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Maryville College, he pursued graduate study at Biblical Seminary in New York, Princeton Theological Seminary, Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Hartford Seminary Foundation, and Cornell University, as well as post-graduate work at Mansfield College, Oxford University. Prior to entering academic life, he served Presbyterian parishes in Roselle, New Jersey, and Long Green and Ashland, Maryland. One of his students, Hart M. Nelsen, prepared this article utilizing Blizzard's highly influential study of clergy roles. Nelsen, a graduate of Occidental College, the University of Northern Iowa, Princeton Theological Seminary, and Vanderbilt University, is Professor of Sociology and Chairperson of the Department of Sociology at The Catholic University of America, as well as a member of the Boys Town Center, a research institute at Catholic University. He is the author of many articles in major sociological journals, the editor (with Raytha L. Yokley and Anne K. Nelsen) of The Black Church in America (1971) and author (with Anne K. Nelsen) of the forthcoming volume, The Black Church in the Sixties. The data for this article were collected under support from the National Institute of Mental Health (1 R01 MH 16573). His colleagues in the larger study are Raytha L. Yokley and Thomas W. Madron. Copyright © 1975 by Hart M. Nelsen

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