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Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary

Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary

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The Burke Library is one of the largest theological libraries in North America, with holdings of over 700,000 items, including extensive special collections. The mission of the Burke Library is to identify, acquire, organize, provide access to, interpret, and preserve for the future information in the field of theology and contextually related areas of study.
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Byung Hun Choi papers, 1908 -- 2008

1.50 linear feet
Byung Hun Choi, also referred to as Taksa, was a Korean philosopher and theologian and one of the first Methodist ministers in Korea, who assisted in translating the New Testament and the Book of Genesis to Korean. The collection contains primary and secondary source materials on the biographical history of Choi, his theological philosophies and writings, correspondence, as well as detailed descriptions of the Methodist movement in Korea.
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Allen Macy Dulles papers, 1930

0.25 linear feet
Allen Macy Dulles was a theologian, a pastor, and a professor at Auburn Theological Seminary. This collection contains lectures and notes on the history and nature of apologetic.
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Allen Macy Dulles papers, 1930 0.25 linear feet

apologetic.

This series contains one folder of lectures and notes related to the history and nature of apologetic.

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Henry Preserved Smith papers, 1864 -- 1925

4.25 linear feet
Henry Preserved Smith (1847-1927) was a Presbyterian minister in Ohio and New York and a scholar with specializations in Hebrew and Cognate Languages, historical and critical interpretations of the Bible who was tried for heresy by the Presbyterian Church, 1892-1894, and was subsequently Professor of Church history and Davenport Professor of Hebrew and Cognate Languages at Union Theological Seminary, 1917-1925. The collection contains scrapbooks as they were assembled by Smith to document his heresy trial, as well as the contemporaneous trial of Charles Augustus Briggs, and three scrapbooks on Hebrew literature, as well as other writings and notes including nine of Smith's notebooks, correspondence, speeches, trial materials, lecture notes, and other materials maintained by Smith during his work as a professor and librarian.
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E. Allen Mellen collection on St. Mary's Episcopal Church and the ordination of women, 1973 -- 2012

0.25 linear feet
This collection contains correspondence and other materials relating to the sponsorship by St. Mary's Episcopal Church of two women deacons of the parish, Carter Heyward and Emily Hewitt (Union Theological Seminary alumnae), for Episcopal ordination in the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, Diocese of New York, in December 1973.
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E. Allen Mellen collection on St. Mary's Episcopal Church and the ordination of women, 1973 -- 2012 0.25 linear feet

. Griffiss, Professor of Apologetics and Dogmatic Theology, Nashota House, Wisconsin; Emily Hewitt, Deacon

This series contains correspondence and other materials relating to the sponsorship by St. Mary's Episcopal Church of two women deacons of the parish, Carter Heyward and Emily Hewitt (Union Theological Seminary alumnae), for Episcopal ordination in the Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine, Diocese of New York, in December 1973. Correspondents include Ellen Marie Barrett; Douglass B. Clark, Deacon, St. Mary's Manhattanville, New York; James L. Duncan, Episcopal Bishop, Diocese of South East Florida; Eugene R. Fairweather, Professor of Divinity, Trinity College, Toronto, Canada; Charlotte Graves Patton, Chair, Congregational Committee on Women's Ordination, St Mary's, Manhattanville, New York; J. E. Griffiss, Professor of Apologetics and Dogmatic Theology, Nashota House, Wisconsin; Emily Hewitt, Deacon, St. Mary's Manhattanville, New York; Carter Heyward, Deacon, St. Mary's Manhattanville, New York; E. Allen Mellen, Vestry Chair/ Treasurer/Warden, St Mary's Manhattanville, New York; Albert T. Mollegen, Professor of New Testament and Christian Ethics, Episcopal Theological Seminary, Virginia; Paul Moore, Jr. Episcopal Bishop, Diocese of New York; Richard A. Norris, Professor of Dogmatic Theology, General Theological Seminary, New York; Thomas F. Pike, President, Standing Committee; Neale A. Secor, Priest in charge St. Mary's, Manhattanville, New York; William Stringfellow.

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H. Richard Niebuhr essays, circa 1925 -- 1950

0.25 linear feet
H. Richard Niebuhr was president of Elmhurst College, 1924-1927; Sterling Professor of Theology and Christian Ethics, 1954-1962 at Yale University (faculty since 1931); and was known for conglomerating neoorthodoxy, realism, and Christian existentialism. The collection contains 13 typescript essays thematically divided into four sections: Deity of God; Human bondage; Divine action and human response; and Catholic vision.
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Ernest Findlay Scott papers, 1944 -- 1959

0.25 linear feet
Ernest Findlay Scott was a UTS faculty member and New Testament scholar of the early twentieth century. The collection contains correspondence on both personal and theological subjects, as well as correspondence related to the donation of the collection to the Burke Library.
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