scholarly journals Changing Seminaries, Changing Libraries, Changing Selves

2019 ◽  
pp. 191-193
Author(s):  
Megan Elizabeth Welsh ◽  
Patrick Milas
Keyword(s):  
Religious Studies ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
Religious Identities ◽  
Presbyterian Church ◽  
University Of Colorado ◽  
Diverse Student Populations ◽  
Diverse Student ◽  
Accredited Institutions ◽  
Princeton Theological Seminary ◽  
Secular Institutions

Religious identities and practices are changing. Religious studies and theological educators are adapting curricula and services to support increasingly diverse student populations. On an institutional level, some religious studies departments and seminaries' priorities are changing, too.    For example, Princeton Theological Seminary (PTS) remains one of ten seminaries of the Presbyterian Church (USA), but currently, only 28% of students identify as PCUSA personally and over fifty Christian traditions are represented, reflecting a trend toward ecumenism. ATS-accredited institutions  have faculty and students whose faiths are outside of Judeo-Christian traditions, principal traditions that comprise the ATLA membership. Additionally, there is increased representation from secular institutions (e.g., University of Colorado Boulder) and organizations not affiliated with specific denominations within ATLA membership. It's time for librarians to share with each other their perceptions of their institutions’ relationships with students, administrations, and denominations, and where they fit within ATLA personally.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Materials for the history of the gospel-Baptist movement in Ukraine

1996 ◽  
pp. 4-15
Author(s):  
S. Golovaschenko ◽  
Petro Kosuha
Keyword(s):  
Large Scale ◽  
Religious Studies ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
National Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Evangelical Christians ◽  
Evangelical Christian ◽  
First Results ◽  
History Of ◽  
Fruitful Cooperation ◽  
Academy Of Sciences

The report is based on the first results of the study "The History of the Evangelical Christians-Baptists in Ukraine", carried out in 1994-1996 by the joint efforts of the Department of Religious Studies at the Institute of Philosophy of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine and the Odessa Theological Seminary of Evangelical Christian Baptists. A large-scale description and research of archival sources on the history of evangelical movements in our country gave the first experience of fruitful cooperation between secular and church researchers.

Reviewing and Responding to the Thought of Choan-Seng Song

1977 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 9-15
Keyword(s):  
Biblical Studies ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
World Council Of Churches ◽  
Christian Mission ◽  
World Council ◽  
Christian Literature ◽  
Princeton Theological Seminary ◽  
Theological Thought ◽  
Academic Year

Choan-Seng Song, formerly Professor of Theology and Principal of Tainan Theological College in Taiwan and now Associate Director of the Commission on Faith and Order of the World Council of Churches in Geneva, is among the most stimulating of present-day Asian theologians. Dr. Song has become increasingly well known to missiological circles in North America through his service as a visiting professor at Princeton Theological Seminary during the academic year 1976–77. His book Christian Mission In Reconstruction: An Asian Attempt was first published in Madras by the Christian Literature Society of India in 1976. Orbis Books has scheduled an American edition to appear in the fall of 1977. The Occasional Bulletin of Missionary Research invited D. Preman Niles, Professor in the field of Biblical Studies at the Theological College in Pilimatalawa, Sri Lanka, and Charles C. West, the Stephen Colwell Professor of Christian Ethics at Princeton Theological Seminary in New Jersey to write brief articles on “Reviewing and Responding to the Thought of Choan-Seng Song.” Although Dr. Song's recent book is intended to be a particular focus of those two reflections, they go beyond it to a wider consideration of his theological thought. In turn, Dr. Song was invited to submit a “reaction-to-the-reactions.” The three articles follow in that order.

A Conversation

1984 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Thomas W. Gillespie ◽  
Hugh T. Kerr
Keyword(s):  
San Francisco ◽  
New Testament ◽  
Graduate School ◽  
Theological Education ◽  
Theological Seminary ◽  
New Testament Studies ◽  
Claremont Graduate School ◽  
Princeton Theological Seminary ◽  
Presbyterian Churches

We welcome to this issue which begins Volume XLI, Thomas W. Gillespie as Chairman of the Editorial Council of THEOLOGY TODAY. A Californian who has come East, Dr. Gillespie is the newly elected President of Princeton Theological Seminary and Professor of New Testament. He is a graduate of George Pepperdine College, Princeton Seminary, and the Claremont Graduate School, where he received the doctorate in New Testament studies. He has served as the minister of the Garden Grove and Burlingame Presbyterian Churches, and as Adjunct Professor at San Francisco and Fuller Seminaries and at New College Berkeley. In church affairs, Dr. Gillespie has been active in local and national committees on ecumenism and theological education.

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