The tower at Union Theological Seminary

Bird's-eye view at Claremont Ave. & 122nd St.

Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York is a preeminent independent graduate school of theology, located in Manhattan between Claremont Avenue and Broadway, 120th to 122nd Streets. The seminary was founded in 1836 under the Presbyterian Church, and is currently affiliated with the nearby Columbia University. Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1224x1632, 279 KB)Photographed and uploaded by user:Geographer. ... Image File history File links Download high resolution version (1224x1632, 279 KB)Photographed and uploaded by user:Geographer. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Theology finds its scholars pursuing the understanding of and providing reasoned discourse of religion, spirituality and God or the gods. ... Manhattan is a borough of New York City, New York, USA, coterminous with New York County. ... A seminary or theological college is a specialized and often live-in higher education institution for the purpose of instructing students (seminarians) in philosophy, theology, spirituality and the religious life, usually in order to prepare them to become members of the clergy. ... Presbyterianism is part of the Reformed churches family of denominations of Christian Protestantism based on the teachings of John Calvin which traces its institutional roots to the Scottish Reformation, especially as led by John Knox. ... Columbia University is a private research university in the United States. ...

The brick and limestone English Gothic architecture, by Francis R. Allen (1844–1931) and Collins, completed in 1910, includes the tower (pictured), which adapts features of the crossing tower of Durham Cathedral. The Seminary is also adjacent to Teachers College, Barnard College, the Jewish Theological Seminary of America and the Manhattan School of Music and has cross-registration and library access agreements with several of these schools. The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 23, 1980. Victoria Tower at the Palace of Westminster, London: Gothic details provided by A.W.N. Pugin The Gothic revival was a European architectural movement with origins in mid-18th century England. ... Durham Cathedrals famous Sanctuary Knocker on the North Door Ground plan of Durham Cathedral Legend of the founding of Durham depicted on cathedral The Cathedral Church of Christ, Blessed Mary the Virgin and St Cuthbert of Durham, which is almost always referred to as Durham Cathedral, in the city... Teachers College, Columbia University (sometimes referred to simply as Teachers College; also referred to as Teachers College of Columbia University or the Columbia University Graduate School of Education) is a top ranked graduate school of education in the United States. ... Barnard College, founded in 1889, is one of the four undergraduate divisions of Columbia University. ... The Jewish Theological Seminary of America The Jewish Theological Seminary of America, known in the Jewish community simply as JTS, is one of the academic and spiritual centers of Conservative Judaism. ... The Manhattan School of Music is one of Americas leading music conservatories located in New York City that offers degrees on the bachelors, masters, and doctoral levels in the areas of classical and jazz performance and composition. ... // List of Registered Historic Places in New York County, New York (Manhattan): See also: List of Registered Historic Places in New York ADMIRAL DEWEY (tugboat) African Burial Ground AMBROSE (lightship) American Stock Exchange American Thread Building Astor Place Subway Station (IRT) Bank of New York Building Battery Park Control House...

During the late-19th Century, Union Theological Seminary (UTS) became one of the leading centers of liberal Christianity in the United States. Among its graduates were the historian of Christianity Arthur McGiffert, biblical scholar James Moffett, Harry Emerson Fosdick, pastor of Riverside Church, who served as professor during his tenure there, and the Socialist leader Norman Thomas. It is home to the Burke Theological Library, which is second only to the Vatican Library in the scope of its collections. Harry Emerson Fosdick (1879-1969) was the most prominent liberal baptist minister of the early 20th Century. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Norman Thomas Norman Mattoon Thomas (November 20, 1884 - December 19, 1968) was a leading American socialist, pacifist, and six-time presidential candidate for the Socialist Party of America. ... The Vatican Library (Latin: Bibliotheca Apostolica Vaticana) is the library of the Holy See, located in Vatican City. ...

UTS currently employs several prominent theologians on its faculty. Dr. Joseph Hough, the current President, is an important Christian Democratic Socialist. Henry Sloane Coffin was a past president. Dr. James Hal Cone is one of the founders of liberation theology and is especially important in the development of African-American theology. Dr. Gary Dorrien is a leading church historian and social ethicist. Dr. James Forbes, the senior pastor of the adjacent Riverside Church, is an adjunct professor at the seminary and had been a full-time, chaired professor before accepting the Riverside post. Henry Sloane Coffin (born January 5, 1877 in New York City; died November 25, 1954 in Lakeville, Connecticut) was president of the Union Theological Seminary, Moderator of the Presbyterian Church USA, and one of the most famous ministers in the U.S. He was the uncle of William Sloane Coffin... James Hal Cone (August 5, 1938 - ) is an African-American Christian theologian in the Methodist tradition. ... Liberation theology is a school of theology that focuses on Jesus Christ as not only the Redeemer but also the Liberator of the Oppressed. ... James Forbes is the name of several notable men: James Forbes, (c. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...

Reinhold Neibuhr and Paul Tillich made UTS the center of liberal Christianity in the post-War period. Prominent public intellectual Dr. Cornel West commenced a promising academic career at UTS in 1977. As liberalism lost ground to conservatism after the 1960s, UTS ran into financial difficulties, and shrank significantly. Eventually, the school agreed to lease some of its buildings to Columbia University and to transfer ownership of and responsibility for the Burke Library to Columbia. These agreements helped stabilize the school's finances, which had been hobbled by increasing library costs and the need for substantial campus repairs. Reinhold Neibuhr was a theologian and social activist writing during the time of World War II and following. ... Paul Johannes Tillich (August 20, 1886 – October 22, 1965) was a German-American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher. ...

The school confers Master of Arts, Master of Divinity, S.T.M, Th.D and Ph.D. degrees. The school has long been associated with ecumenism. A Master of Arts is a postgraduate academic masters degree awarded by universities in North America and the United Kingdom (excluding the ancient universities of Scotland and Oxbridge. ... Master of Divinity is a common degree among theological seminaries and is considered the minimum academic requirement for ordination into pastoral ministry. ... A Th. ... Doctor of Philosophy (Ph. ... Topics in Christianity Movements · Denominations Ecumenism · Preaching · Prayer Music · Liturgy · Calendar Symbols · Art · Criticism Important figures Apostle Paul · Church Fathers Constantine · Athanasius · Augustine Anselm · Aquinas · Palamas · Wycliffe Tyndale · Luther · Calvin · Wesley Arius · Marcion of Sinope Pope · Archbishop of Canterbury Patriarch of Constantinople Christianity Portal This box:      Ecumenism (also oecumenism, Å“cumenism...

List of founders

• Charles Butler (NYU) (1802-97)

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Notable Current Faculty

• Mary C. Boys — Skinner and McAlpin Professor of Pratical Theology
• Euan K. Cameron — Henry Luce III Professor of Reformation Church History & Academic Dean. (1958-)
• David Carr — Professor of Old Testament; contributed to Genesis in the New Oxford Annotated Bible (New Revised Standard Version)
• James Cone — Charles A. Briggs Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology - Founder of Black Liberation Theology.
• Gary Dorrien — Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics
• Paul F. Knitter — Paul Tillich Professor of Theology
• Chung Hyun Kyung — Associate Professor of Ecumenical Theology
• Barbara Lunblad — Joe R. Engle Associate Professor of Preaching
• Daisy L. Machado — Professor of the History of Christianity; first U.S. Latina ordained in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
• Christopher Morse — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Professor of Theology & Ethics
• John Anthony McGuckin — Professor of Early Church History
• Anne Belford Ulanov — Christiane Brooks Johnson Memorial Professor of Psychiatry and Religion

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Former theologians and faculty

• William Greenough Thayer Shedd — professor of sacred literature (1863–1874) and of systematic theology (1874-1890).
• Charles Augustus Briggs — professor of Hebrew and cognate languages (1874–1891) and of Biblical theology (1891-1904); an important early leader of the Modernist movement.
• Reinhold Niebuhr (1892–1971) — professor of Applied Christianity - Christian social ethics - , author of the influential The Nature and Destiny of Man (1941), and the Serenity Prayer (popularized through the Twelve-step program).
• Paul Tillich (1886–1965) — German-American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher.
• Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1906–1945) — a German Lutheran pastor and theologian and participant in the resistance movement against Nazism, engaged in post-graduate studies at UTS.
• John Macquarrie — professor of Systematic Theology 1962–70, afterwards Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford and Canon Residentiary of Christ Church, Oxford 1970–1986.
• Robert Pollack — professor of Science and Religion
• Raymond E. Brown (1928–1998) — One of America's preeminent New Testament scholars and member of Pontificial Bible Commission was professor in UTS for 23 years.
• Edward Robinson Biblical scholar and discoverer of Robinson's Arch and Hezekiah's Tunnel in Jerusalem.

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Notable Alumni

• Dietrich Bonhoeffer — German theologian and Nazi resister who did post-graduate work at Union
• Marcus Borg — Popular lecturer and writer, Hundere Distinguished Professor of Religion and Culture at Oregon State University
• Frederick Buechner — Writer
• Frederick Buckley Newell (Bachelor of Divinity, 1916) — Bishop of The Methodist Church
• Nelson Cruikshank (Master of divinity, 1929) — Labor union activist and strategist responsible for the passage of Medicare
• Franklin I. Gamwell — Shailer Mathews Professor of Religious Ethics, the Philosophy of Religion, and Theology at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago
• Dr. David Gushee — Professor of Moral Philosophy at Union University. Author of 9 books and over 70 articles^[1]
• Dwight Hopkins — Professor of Theology at the Divinity School at the University of Chicago
• Myles Horton — Co-founder of the Highlander Center
• Andrew McLellan — former Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
• Bruce McLeod (PhD) — Moderator of the United Church of Canada
• Norman Thomas — American Socialist

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External links

• Union Theological Seminary webpage
• Union Podcast
• The WPA Guide to New York City 1939, reprint 1982.