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Union Theological Seminary is a preeminent independent graduate school of Theology , located in Manhattan , in New York City . The Seminary was founded in 1836 under the Presbyterian Church , and is currently affiliated with Columbia University .

During the late-19th Century, Union Theological Seminary (UTS) became one of the leading centers of liberal Christianity in the United States.

UTS currently employs several prominent theologians on its faculty. Dr. Joseph Hough , the current President, is an important Christian Democratic Socialist. Dr. Jim 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 Riverside Church , is an associate professor at the school.

Harry Emerson Fosdick worked as a professor at UTS throughout his tenure at Riverside Church. Later, Reinhold Neibuhr and Paul Tillich made UTS the center of liberal Christianity in the post-War period. As liberalism lost ground to Orthodoxy after the 1960s, UTS ran into financial difficulties, and shrank significantly. Eventually, the school entered into certain agreements with Columbia University, which helped give the school financial stability. The seminary is now affiliated with Columbia.

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 .


LIST OF FOUNDERS



THEOLOGIANS

  • 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 — professor of Applied Christianity - Christian social ethics - (1892-1971), author of the influential ''The Nature and Destiny of Man'' ( 1941 ), and the Serenity Prayer (popularized through the Twelve-step Program ).

  • James Cone, Charles A. Briggs Distinguished Professor of Systematic Theology - Founder of Black Liberation Theology

  • Paul Tillich , German-American theologian and Christian existentialist philosopher (1886 – 1965)

  • Dietrich Bonhoeffer , a Lutheran pastor and theologian and participant in the resistance movement against Nazism, engaged in post-graduate studies at UTS.



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