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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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Katie G. Cannon papers, 1955 -- 2018

2.75 linear feet
Katie Geneva Cannon, the first African-American woman ordained in the United Presbyterian Church, was a minister, professor, and foundational voice of womanist theology. The collection contains professional and personal materials including coursework, biographical material, artwork, teaching resources including syllabi, writing and research materials including drafts and notes, sermons, lectures and documentation of speaking engagements, correspondence, and publicity materials.
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Samuel Macauley Jackson papers, circa 1871 -- 1972, bulk circa 1871 -- 1897

1.25 linear feet
Samuel Macauley Jackson (1851-1912) was a UTS alum of 1873, Presbyterian minister, church historian, and New York University professor. The collection contains notes on the lectures of Roswell Dwight Hitchcock and Henry Boynton Smith taken by Jackson while at Union, as well as translations of the sermons of Swiss thinker Huldrich Zwingli, with additional correspondence of Robert Handy on the index of Jackson's translations.
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Harry Emerson Fosdick Convocation on Preaching and Liturgy Records, 1986

3 folders 19 audio cassettes 8 video cassettes
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Emilie M. Townes papers, 1960 -- 2022

36.25 linear feet
Emilie M. Townes is a womanist ethicist and an author and speaker on African American women and the church, specializing in themes such as the oppressive forces of race, sex, and sexuality in the church and society. She has held appointments at the Vanderbilt University Divinity School, the Yale Divinity School, and Union Theological Seminary. The collection contains addresses and sermons, publications, correspondence, coursework and teaching material, memorabilia, and other related materials that reflect her life, work, and thought as a womanist theologian.
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William Weston Patton papers, circa 1830 -- 1940

3.25 linear feet
William Weston patton (1821-1889) was a UTS Alumnus (1842); Presbyterian minister; abolitionist; and the son of William Patton (a faculty member and director at Union Theological Seminary). The collection contains family photographs, books written or owned by members of the family, and newsletters, service programs, and other materials relating to the Congregational Church of Christ in Westfield, NJ.
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Series 2: Published and Unpublished Writings, 1836 -- 1940 2 linear feet

to publish a biography and the sermon preached by his son on the occasion of his death.

This series contains books written or owned by the family, including some written by W.W. Patton's father, William Patton, and others by William Weston Patton himself. One book was written by his children to publish a biography and the sermon preached by his son on the occasion of his death.

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George Washington Blagden papers, 1830 -- 1873

0.25 linear feet
George Washington Blagden was a Protestant pastor who spent the bulk of his career at the Old South Church in Boston, Massachusetts. The collection contains a record of marriages from 1830 to 1836, and Blagden's self-indexed writings relating to plans for sermons from 1863 to 1873.
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Preserved Smith notebooks, 1820

0.25 linear feet
Preserved Smith was a minister in Rowe and Mendon, Massachusetts, an American Revolutionary War veteran, and grandfather to UTS alumnus Henry Preserved Smith. The collection contains two volumes of Bible notes written in Warwick, Massachusetts in 1820.
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Preserved Smith notebooks, 1820 0.25 linear feet

preaching in Warwick, Massachusetts in 1820.

This series contains two bound volumes of manuscript Biblical notes written while Smith was preaching in Warwick, Massachusetts in 1820.

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Joseph Kingsbury Greene papers, 1857 -- 1917

5 linear feet
Joseph Kingsbury Greene was an American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions Congregational missionary in Turkey for fifty-one years, stationed in Nicodemia, Bursa, and Manisa. He was fluent in Armenian and Turkish languages. The collection contains Greene's diaries from 1859 through 1917, Greene's correspondence with members of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions and others, and Greene's handwritten English and Armenian dictionaries.
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Theological Discussion Group papers, 1934 -- 1961

2.25 linear feet
The Theological Discussion Group, meeting twice yearly in weekend retreat initially at Yale University, included Reinhold Niebuhr, Richard Niebuhr, Paul Tillich, Henry Van Dusen, James Luther Adams, Georgia Harkness and many other leading Christian thinkers. Papers were presented and critiqued, and issues concerning the evolution of Christianity and the modern world discussed. The collection contains typescript addresses presented to the Theological Discussion Group, as well as a small amount of administrative correspondence, including lists of members.
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19th Meeting, Yale DS, New Haven, CT, Nov 13-15, 1942 Box 3, Folder 1

Chicago Group Addresses: Pauck, Aubrey, Harkness, Knox: Preaching as an Expression of the Ethical

Chicago Group Addresses: Pauck, Aubrey, Harkness, Knox: Preaching as an Expression of the Ethical Reality New Haven Group Addresses: Calhoun, Bainton, H.R. Niebuhr Central Christian Affirmations Princeton Group Addresses: Greene, Mackay, Thomas, Wicks II. Bases of Christian Beliefs New York Group Addresses: Tillich, Cavert, McGregor, R. Niebuhr, Van Dusen Present World Situation and Christian Message, drft.1

  1. Theological Discussion Group papers, 1934 -- 1961
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John T. McNeill papers, circa 1904 -- 2000

17.25 linear feet
John Thomas McNeill was a theological historian and Calvin scholar, Professor of History of European Christianity at the University of Chicago, and later Professor of Church History and Auburn Professor Emeritus at Union Theological Seminary. The collection contains material related to McNeill's career, including teaching materials, research notes, sermons, correspondence, and an unpublished autobiography.
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Research, circa 1940 -- 1949 Box 21

; "The Emergence of Conciliarism", circa 1942; Notes, 1942; "The Ethical Note in Anglican Preaching" and

Notes on Friedrich Schleiermacher, circa 1940; Thomas Chalmers, 1940s; Notes and readings, 1940s; "The Emergence of Conciliarism", circa 1942; Notes, 1942; "The Ethical Note in Anglican Preaching" and "The Church in the Thought of Reformed Theologians of the Sixteenth Century", 1942 ; "Intellectual History of Europe in the 17th Century" and other notes, circa 1943; Conciliarism, 1943; John Amos Comenius, 1944; Renaissance seminar, 1946-1947; "Commission to Study the Bases of a Just and Durable Peace", 1943; "Religion and Peace", 1944; Oliver Cromwell, 1946 (?); "Presbyterianism and Elizabeth", 1949 (?); Jesuits, Pascal, 1949

  1. Series 3: Research, circa 1904 -- 2000

Research, circa 1900 -- 1979 Box 26

, undated); Clergy preaching (undated); Various writings (undated); Comment on Dr. Harbison's paper on

John Eliot (undated); Early Monasticism (undated); History of Ministry (undated); "Freedom of Religion and Conscience in a Democracy" (undated); James: Varieties of Experience (undated); Gerard Groote (undated); Nikolai Frederik Severin Grundtvig (undated); Scottish moderates (undated); Netherlands (undated); "The Philosophical Movement" (undated); Notes (undated); Luther's Controversies (undated); Oberlin (undated); Richard Baxter (undated); Autobiographical references in Calvin's Institutes (undated); Isaac Casaubon (undated); Ignatius Loyola, The Spiritual Exercises (undated); "Calixtus" (undated); Notes on the Restoration (undated); "Heresy and Inquisition" (undated); Charles Augustus Briggs (undated); Adolf von Harnack (undated); "The Pioneers of the Reform" (undated); "Consequences of the Reformation" (notebook, undated); Clergy preaching (undated); Various writings (undated); Comment on Dr. Harbison's paper on Calvin (undated); Gerson (undated); Notes (undated); S. Kierkegaard (undated)

  1. Series 3: Research, circa 1904 -- 2000

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