Pamphlets, reports, correspondence, and minutes collected by prominent American church leader, author, and missionary statesman who served on the Board of Foreign Missions of the Presbyterian Church in the United States for 46 years and was a founding member of the Foreign Missions Conference of North America.

Robert Hamill Nassau was a Presbyterian missionary who served throughout West Africa, including Benita; Belambla; Kangwe; Talaguga; Baraka (Libreville); and Batanga. The collection contains letters sent to and received by Nassau from friends and family, and a selection of personal and biographical information.

Consists of correspondence, memoranda, committee minutes and reports, and miscellaneous printed materials including pamphlets, articles, and clippings. Among topics included are the Auburn Affirmation; Committee on Protestant Liberties; protest against the action of the 1927 General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A.; the Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy within the New York Presbytery; and the Presbyterian Advance.

Robert T. Handy (1918-2009) was a Union Theological Seminary Professor of Church History and Academic Dean and Adjunct Columbia University Religion Department faculty member, and published a history of UTS in 1987. The collection contains a typescript of Handy's History of Union Theological Seminary, as well as correspondence and administrative materials of organizations that Handy was involved in: the Fellowship of Socialist Christians (FSC) and Christian Action (CA).

Robert Tobias was a scholar, professor and leader of the ecumenical movement. The collection contains files pertaining to the potential founding of a World Association of Theological Schools, including correspondence, draftts, and catalogues and course descriptions from seminaries.

Notes on authors; published and unpublished papers; speeches; retreats; photos; subject files; course files including syllabi, notes, lectures, "Xtian cmmty in history"; miscellaneous materials.

Collection contains correspondence, textual materials reflecting Shinn's academic and military experience, family life, and activities in retirement, materials relating to Shinn's leadership in religious and civic organizations, sermons and lectures, working papers and final drafts of publications in books and journals, as well as a small amount of realia including military regalia, certificates and licenses, photographs, and graphic materials.

The collection includes: journal and newspaper articles; sermons and addresses; audio taped lectures; conference notes; course outlines; correspondence; bibliography; awards; photos; artwork; and miscellaneous material.

Roswell D. Hitchcock (1817-1887) was a Presbyterian Congregational minister, church historian, and Union Theological Seminary president. The collection contains lecture notes taken by students of Hitchcock, correspondence, and manuscript material by Hitchcock and others.

Source material and questionnaires.

Personal and administrative records, including syllabi, lecture notes, field examinations, correspondence, and other materials documenting Davis's years at UTS as a PhD student and then on the Psychiatry and Religion faculty, circa 1977-1991.

The collection consists of correspondence, photographs, sermons and publications covering much of the adult life of Sam Franklin, including extensive correspondence with and by his wife, Dorothy Franklin.

A history of China.

Samuel Dodd was an American United Presbyterian missionary in Ningbo, China and Hangzhou, China; Samuel Thompson Carter Dodd was his eldest son, born in Ningbo, China. The collection contains a copy of Samuel Dodd's 1861-1877 journal typed and with notes by his son, as well as correspondence and photographs.

Samuel Guy Inman was a member of the Disciples of Christ, executive secretary of the Committee on Cooperation in Latin America, and a member of the Christian Women's Board of Missions. The collection contains material related to Inman's work with missions and aid and assistance to Latin America.

Samuel Leigh was a Wesleyan Methodist missionary to Australia and New Zealand. The collection contains typed copies of correspondence and journal entries from nineteenth-century manuscript originals by Samuel Leigh to fellow missionaries abroad.

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.

Manuscript notes of lectures on church history made by Stephen Grosvenor Hopkins (Hopkins' oldest son); testimonial letters in commemoration of Dr. Hopkins' jubilee, 1897; sermons; notebook; A GENERAL LITURGY AND BOOK OF COMMON PRAYER, prepared by Hopkins, 1883; MANUAL OF CHURCH POLITY, 1878; and SAMUEL MILES HOPKINS TRIBUTES, 1901.

Reverend Samuel Smith (1768-1801) graduated from Columbia College in 1786 and became a Presbyterian minister who lived and preached throughout upstate New York and New Jersey. The collection contains personal and ministry-related correspondence, sermons, a manuscript notice issued by Yale regarding income increases for professors of divinity employed there, as well as Smith's diplomas from Columbia University.

Sarah S. Andrews was an independent missionary in Japan from 1916 to 1961. The collection contains photographs and provenance correspondence.

Sarah's Circle was a Catholic women's group founded in 1989 and based in Binghamton, New York; the group was dedicated to promoting the ordination of women in the Catholic Church. The collection contains member lists and biographies, meeting minutes and schedules, correspondence, newspaper articles, materials on worship services and theatre productions, information on conferences, VHS cassettes, and the organization's T-shirt.

"Predigten" in manuscript.

The Society for the Advancement of Continuing Education for Ministry (SACEM) was created in 1967 by a group of ministers and educators concerned over the lack of concerted continuing education programs for the nation's pastors. The collection contains reports, articles and books by SACEM memebers, correspondence, an oral history transcript, and other materials.

Sophia Lyon Fahs was a Unitarian educator, author, editor, minister, innovator in religious education of children, one of the first women faculty members at Union Theological Seminary, and wife of Methodist minister Charles Harvey Fahs. The collection contains papers from Sophia Lyon Fahs' UTS Alumni File as well as her personal files, including materials related to her husband Charles Fahs' writings; correspondence with her biographer Edith Hunter as well as general correspondence; Riverside Church Sunday School papers and religious education publications; and materials donated by Dorothy Beck Fahs, including articles about SLF, memorials, and correspondence, as well as drafts and correspondence related to Cobb and Dorothy Fahs' work on Old Tales for a New Day (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus Books, 1981), the companion volume to Sophia Fahs' earlier books on mythic stories for children.

This collection contains records of the state councils of the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America, including bulletins, magazines, newspapers, pamphlets, correspondence, annual meeting minutes, and reports from New York, Ohio, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Alabama, California – Nevada, Colorado, Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Minnesota, Oregon, Texas, Vermont, Virginia and Washington.

Includes application forms, articles, brochures, correspondence, financial statements, lists of participants, minutes, newsletters including "Stirring in the Mulberries : Skandalon" news clippings, regional and urban projects, reading lists, reports, SIM handbook, and statement of purpose.

The Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions began in 1886 with intention to meet the needs of boards and missionary societies by nurturing students to become missionary candidates, and to emphasize the need for missionaries throughout the world. The collection includes correspondence and organizational records, including publications, manuals, a bibliography, minutes, and historical and other materials.

The collection includes correspondence, academic course materials, publications and other material documenting the career of Suzanne Hiatt, including the battle for ordination of women clergy in the Episcopal Church.

UTS Alumnus of 1964; collection contains correspondence from and clippings about UTS faculty.

Munshi Abdullah was a writer, interpreter, and translator of Malay. The collection contains a two volume, 335 page typescript of the autobiography of Munshi Abdullah, as translated from the Malay by W.G. Shellabear.

This is an artifical collection composed of audiocassette recordings, held by the Burke Library, of various theological conferences and events, including the Evangelical Women's Caucus, the First International Congress on the Meaning of Human Suffering, God's Call to a New Beginning Conference, and the 1986 and 1987 National Workshop on Christian Unity, among others.

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.

Questionnaire for faculty members by Harvey H. Guy and George L. Maxwell.

The Re-imagining Community was a grassroots, ecumenical movement (centered in Minneapolis, Minnesota) that was organized to challenge what it saw as a patriarchal church hierarchy, promoting justice and equality in the church and society as a whole. The collection contains newsletters and other publications, audio recordings of annual conferences and video recordings of responses to the 1993 conference, records relating to the planning of the annual conferences, and administrative records of the organization.

Thomas Chalmers Murray was a graduate of the Union Theological Seminary class of 1872, an historian of Hebrew scripture, and the author of Lectures on the Origin and Growth of the Psalms (published posthumously in 1880). The collection consists of notes taken while attending Union Theological Seminary.

Thomas Harvey Skinner (1791-1871) was a Presbyterian minister, pastoral theologian, and founding faculty member and professor at Union Theological Seminary. The collection contains a commonplace book, as well as lecture notes, ministerial and personal correspondence, clippings, memorials, and biographical and family genealogical material.

Thomas Samuel Hastings was a Presbyterian pastor of New York City and professor and president of Union Theological Seminary. The collection consists of correspondence, writings, and scrapbooks relating to activities of the seminary and the debate concerning the Presbyterian Creed. Included in the collection are also a notebook of his father, Thomas Hastings (1784-1872), and a travel diary that may be of his son, Thomas Hastings (1860-1920).

Thomas Tiplady (1882-1967), British Methodist hymnwriter and director of Lambeth Mission, London (circa 1922-1955). Annotated four volume manuscript of "Hymns from Lambeth" (1930) as presented to the Hymn Society of America in 1938; one volume of "Hymns and Prose," and one photograph of Tiplady in Lambeth.

This collection contains material in English and in Chinese, relating to Timothy Tingfang Lew's family and his writings including the Chinese Christian Liturgy series, and administrative and professional papers and correspondence. The papers include biographical materials, correspondence, drafts of poems, articles and addresses, published poems and articles, liturgies, government and university documents, photographs, and newspaper clippings.

Titus Coan was an Auburn Theological Seminary alumnus and Presbyterian missionary; his first wife Fidelia Church Coan was a teacher who accompanied him to Hawaii on missionary work. The collection contains letters describing events and practical concerns of life in Hawaii, and reflecting on the missionary movement of the time.

Collection consists of writings, course materials, personal materials, travel photographs and 35mm slides, lecture notes, photographic prints, and audiovisual recordings.

Administrative records, faculty-teacher reports, children's responses, class work, case studies of students, photographs, and articles, pamphlets, and brochures on the nature of the school.

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Records, receipts, reports, constitution, minutes, and materials about social events. Also record books on teas, 1946-1974; and materials on Anne Bennett's trip to Vietnam, and protest in New York City, 1969.

Also, records of the Union Commission, 1968-1969, include minutes, documents, working papers, and reports. Records of the Union Commission secretariat include minutes, documents, and working papers for May-Oct. 1969.

The United Board for Christian Colleges in China (UBCCC) was established to support and coordinate activities of Protestant colleges and universities in China. The collection contains committee, historical, correspondence, and annual meeting records that document the UBCCC's work.

United China Relief, known from 1946 as United Service to China, was a cooperative association of aid agencies active in China during the Second World War and the immediate post-war era. The collection includes transcripts, reports, meeting minutes, and correspondence.

The Universal Christian Council for Life and Work (UCCLW) encompassed Protestant and Orthodox churches, and was designed to think about the Church's practical role in society. The collection contains preparatory documents, minutes of meetings, committee reports, pamphlets, presentations from conferences, and other material relating to the Universal Christian Council for Life and Work.

The second Vatican Council, also known as Vatican II, was the twenty-first Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church, convoked by Pope John XXIII and held from 1962-1965. It was preceded by Vatican I (1869-1870), which was the first council to be held since the closing of the Council of Trent in 1563. This collection contains two scrapbooks of New York Times clippings about Vatican II, and a collection of articles defending Catholic theologian Hans Küng.

Conference materials, birthday cards, lectures and addresses, research materials, Auburn Seminary materials, Presbyterian Church materials, correspondence, committees, materials for MA Thesis, notes and notecards, other resources, 2 copies of MA Thesis submitted to Colgate, Rochester, Bexley Hall, Crozer, Colgate Rochester papers.

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Walter Rauschenbusch was a leading scholar of the Social Concern Movement and the Church in America, and taught at the Rochester Theological Seminary. This collection consists of two letters written by Rauschenbusch to Dr. Thomas C. Hall, Professor at Union Theological Seminary, discussing courses and anti-German sentiment after World War I.

Includes essays, research notes, correspondence, clippings, scrapbook materials, books, booklets, leaflets, and photographs.

Wilhelm Pauck was a German-American church historian and professor at Union Theological Seminary, among other institutions. The collection contains Pauck's notes, written in German, relating to biblical exegesis and New Testament theology, as well as the original folder and an acid-free copy of all notes.

The William Adams Brown Ecumenical Library (WAB) was founded by the Union Theological Seminary (UTS) Board of Directors as a response to the increasing demand for materials in the field of ecumenicity. The collection contains general information and material relating to ecumenism, Henry Pitney Van Dusen, and the William Adams Brown Ecumenical Library, including papers, notes, clippings, and correspondence.

The collection consists of scrapbooks, lectures, sermons and correspondence; much of the correspondence is between various members of the Brown family, including W.A. Brown's parents, wife, and children.

The collection consists of manuscripts and reports.

William Adams was a Presbyterian minister, pastoral theologian, UTS professor and president, and maternal grandfather of William Adams Brown. The collection contains bound "In Memoriam" books, as well as sermons written by Adams from the 1830s through the mid-1870s.

Newspaper articles on and letter from China.

William Carey was an English Baptist missionary in England, known as the "father of modern missions," who founded the English Baptist Missionary Society (1792). He translated the Bible into Bengali, and was subsequently appointed Professor of Sanskrit and Bengali at Fort William College in Calcutta. He founded the Agricultural and Horticultural Society of India (1820), as well as hundreds of schools and churches. This collection contains one handwritten letter by William Carey, written in December 9, 1800, soon after Carey had relocated from Bengal to Serampore. The letter addresses an individual who Carey calls "My Dear Bro."

William Channing Gannett (1840-1923) served as minister of the First Unitarian Church of Rochester, N.Y., from 1889-1908, and then pastor emeritus until his death. He was the son of Ezra Stiles Gannett. The collection contains approximately 1261 sermons and talks given by Gannett at Rochester, NY, Salem, MA, East Lexington, MA, St. Paul, Minnesota, and elsewhere between 1872 and 1921 (with a gap from 1889 through 1906).

Diaries and notebooks written by Dr. William Edward Smith while living in Sichuan, China as a medical missionary for the Canadian Methodist Mission, later known as the West China Mission. Includes correspondence and ephemera inserted into the diaries.

William H. Hornblower was a Presbyterian minister based in Paterson, New Jersey. The collection contains two notebooks, labeled Alpha and Beta, of manuscript sermon notes attributed to Hornblower.

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Includes letters, documents, pamphlets, clippings and ephemera collected by Rockwell and relating to his teaching, research, and library careers. Roll books, lecture materials, student papers related to his teaching on Congregational history and polity, and his work in the Union Theological Seminary library.

Includes letters, documents, pamphlets, and many manuscript notes by Rockwell.

This collection contains reports and newsletters created or compiled by Reverend William W. Bell, a Methodist missionary working in India and Burma, and relating to his work with British prisoner of war camps during WWII through the YMCA.

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.

William Wilberforce Chapin was a Congregational American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions missionary to India. The collection contains journals, correspondence, and field notes.

The Woman's Board of Missions was a Congregationalist organization from Boston associated with American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions (ABCFM), focusing on the benefit of women and children throughout the world, disseminating missionary intelligence, and supporting single women missionaries. The collection contains correspondence from members of the New Haven Branch of the Woman's Board of Missions; detailed minutes from the New Haven Branch and the New York State Branch of the Woman's Board of Missions Executive, Public, and Annual meetings; programs from the Norwich and New London Society and the Brookfield Association of the Auxiliary Foreign Missionary Society; as well as records of the branch officers' conference papers, programs and reports from individual branch meetings, and historical sketches of some branches.

Records and documents relating to commissions, committees, conferences, and General Assemblies of the World Council of Churches including pre-Amsterdam, 1948 World Council of Churches in process. Includes various committees and commissions, including Life and Work, Faith and Order, Evangelism, World Council of Churches and International Missionary Council merger, Churches and International Affairs, Laity, Women in the Church, World Christian Youth, Church and Society, Churches Participation in Development, Inter-Church Aid, Refugee and World Service, and History of the Ecumenical Movement.

Records from a worldwide ecumenical conference of Protestant missionaries taking place in Edinburgh, Scotland, 14-23 June, 1910, including those from the Continuation Committees established to continue work beyond the 1910 meeting: Questionnaires, missionary responses from the field, originals, transcripts; administrative correspondence, area reports and reports to Commissions, minutes; published findings and administrative records of the Area Conferences of the Continuation Committees. Also includes anniversary records.

Young Mens and Womens Christian Associations founded as a response to unhealthy social and living conditions in cities at the end of the Industrial Revolution. Collection includes reports, correspondence, minutes, and pamphlets from YMCA and YWCA branches around the world.