Union Theological Seminary (Manhattan)

Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York ( UTS ) is an independent theological college. It is located in Manhattan between Claremont Avenue and Broadway in the amount of 120 to 122 street.

The school offers Master of Arts, Master of Divinity, and doctorates in theology and philosophy as educational qualifications.

The seminar houses the Burke Theological Library, which will house the second largest theological library in the world trade after the Vatican library.

Building

The existing brick and limestone Gothic Revival building was designed by Francis R. Allen (1844-1931) and Collins, completed in 1910. The steeple of the building is modeled after the tower of Durham Cathedral. The seminar is adjacent to the Teachers College and Barnard College, Columbia University and the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and the Manhattan School of Music, and has agreed mutual visitor rules and library access permissions with several of these educational institutions.

The building was added on 23 April 1980, the List of Registered Historic Places in New York County.

History

The seminar was founded in 1836 by the Presbyterian Church and is currently connected to the adjacent Columbia University.

During the late 19th century, the Union Theological Seminary ( UTS) is one of the leading centers of liberal Christianity in the United States. After Charles Augustus Briggs Häresieprozess against 1892/93, the seminar broke away from the Presbyterian Church and became legally independent. Among the graduates were the historian Arthur McGiffert, the biblical scholar James Moffett and the socialist leader Norman Thomas.

Even after the Second World War UTS was a center of liberal Christianity in the United States.

Due to faulty decisions when investing the endowment came UTS in the 1990s in financial difficulty. The number of enrolled students has remained relatively constant at about 350 Therefore, the seminar made ​​leases for some buildings with Columbia University and transferred in the maintenance has become too expensive Burke Library at Columbia University, which stabilized the financial situation.

Theologians at UTS

UTS currently employs several prominent theologians in his faculty. Joseph Hough, the current president, is an important figure of the Christian motivated democratic socialism. Henry Sloane Coffin was a former President of the seminar. James Hal Cone is one of the founders of the African American liberation theology. Garry Dorrien is a leading church historian and social ethics. James Forbes, head pastor at the neighboring Riverside Church, is a visiting professor and was until his appointment at the Riverside Church, a professor at Union Seminary. The intellectual Cornel West began his academic career in 1977 at UTS.

  • William Greenough Thayer Shedd - Professor of Church literature (1863-1874) and of Systematic Theology ( 1874-1890 ).
  • Charles Augustus Briggs - Professor of Hebrew and related languages ​​(1874-1891) and Biblical Theology ( 1891-1904 ).
  • Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) - Professor of Applied Christianity / Christian Social Ethics ( 1930-1960 ).
  • Paul Tillich - Professor of Systematic Theology ( 1933-1955 ).
  • John Macquarrie - Professor of Systematic Theology ( 1962-1970 ).
  • Raymond Edward Brown - Professor of New Testament ( 1971-1990 ).
  • Dorothee kettle holes - Professor of Systematic Theology ( 1975-1987 ).

Significant student of UTS

  • Frederick Buckley Newell (Bachelor of Divinity, 1916) - Bishop of The Methodist Church
  • Andrew McLellan - former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
  • Bruce McLeod - Moderator of the United Church of Canada
  • Carl Rogers, co-founder of humanistic psychology
  • Mark Hanson, presiding bishop of the ELCA
  • John Tietjen, Lutheran bishop
  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer was in 1930/31 Visiting Student
  • Abraham J. Muste, socialist trade union and peace activist, temporarily reformed pastor

Weblink

  • Union Theological Seminary Official Site

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  • Theological Seminary
  • Christian College
  • College in New York City
  • Christianity (New York)
  • Building in Manhattan
  • Established in 1836
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