19 Notable alumni of
Chicago Theological Seminary
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Chicago Theological Seminary is 2121st in the world, 739th in North America, and 695th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 19 notable alumni from Chicago Theological Seminary sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Jesse Jackson
- Occupations
- civil rights advocatehuman rights activistpastorpolitician
- Biography
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Jesse Louis Jackson is an American civil rights activist, politician, and ordained Baptist minister. Beginning as a young protégé of Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights movement, Jackson maintained his status as a prominent civil rights leader throughout his political and theological career for over seven decades. He served in the United States Senate from 1991 to 1997 as a shadow delegate for the District of Columbia. Jackson is the father of former U.S. Representative Jesse Jackson Jr. and current U.S. Representative Jonathan Jackson.
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Jesse Jackson Jr
- Enrolled in Chicago Theological Seminary
- In 1989 graduated with Master of Arts
- Occupations
- politicianlawyertaekwondo athlete
- Biography
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Jesse Louis Jackson Jr. is an American politician. He served as the U.S. representative from Illinois's 2nd congressional district from 1995 until his resignation in 2012. A member of the Democratic Party, he is the son of activist and former presidential candidate Jesse Jackson and, prior to his career in elected office, worked for his father in both the elder Jackson's 1984 presidential campaign and his social justice, civil rights and political activism organization, Operation PUSH. Jackson's wife, Sandi Jackson, served on the Chicago City Council. He served as a national co-chairman of the 2008 Barack Obama presidential campaign. Jackson established a consistent liberal record on both social and fiscal issues, and he has co-authored books on civil rights and personal finance.
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James Henry Breasted
- Occupations
- university teacheranthropologistegyptologistarchaeologisthistorian
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James Henry Breasted was an American archaeologist, Egyptologist, and historian. After completing his PhD at the University of Berlin in 1894 – the first American to obtain a doctorate in Egyptology – he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago. In 1901 he became director of the Haskell Oriental Museum at the university, where he continued to concentrate on Egypt. In 1905 Breasted was promoted to full professor, and held the first chair in Egyptology and Oriental History in the United States.
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Gunnar Vingren
- Occupations
- missionary
- Biography
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Gunnar Vingren was a Swedish Pentecostal missionary evangelist. He served in the early twentieth century in the Amazon and Northeast Brazil. His work led to the creation of the Assembly of God church in Brazil.
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G. Campbell Morgan
- Years
- 1863-1945 (aged 82)
- Occupations
- theologianpreacher
- Biography
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Reverend Doctor George Campbell Morgan D.D. was a British evangelist, preacher, a leading Bible teacher, and a prolific author.
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William L. Rowe
- Occupations
- theologianuniversity teacherphilosopher
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William Leonard Rowe was a professor of philosophy at Purdue University who specialized in the philosophy of religion. His work played a leading role in the "remarkable revival of analytic philosophy of religion since the 1970s". He was noted for his formulation of the evidential argument from evil.
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Robert Oliphant
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Robert Oliphant is a Canadian politician and a United Church minister. He served in the House of Commons as a Liberal Member of Parliament for the Toronto riding of Don Valley West from 2008 to 2011. He returned to office after re-election in 2015 and subsequently in 2019.
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Adam Kotsko
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- bloggertranslatorwriteruniversity teacherphilosopher
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Adam Kotsko is an American theologian, religious scholar, culture critic, and translator, working in the field of political theology. He served as an Assistant Professor of Humanities at Shimer College in Chicago, which was absorbed into North Central College in 2017. He is chiefly known for his interpretative work on philosophers Slavoj Žižek and Giorgio Agamben, as well as his writing on American pop culture. Some of his better-known books include Why We Love Sociopaths (2012), Awkwardness (2010), and Žižek and Theology (2008).
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Kathy Kelly
- Occupations
- writerpeace activist
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Kathy Kelly is an American peace activist, pacifist and author, one of the founding members of Voices in the Wilderness, and, until the campaign closed in 2020, a co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence. As part of peace team work in several countries, she has traveled to Iraq twenty-six times, notably remaining in combat zones during the early days of both US–Iraq wars.
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Emily C. Hewitt
- Occupations
- Anglican priestjudge
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Emily Clark Hewitt is a former judge and chief judge of the United States Court of Federal Claims.
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Richard A. Jensen
- Occupations
- theologian
- Biography
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Richard Alvin Jensen was an American theologian who served as the Carlson Professor of Homiletics Emeritus at the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.
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John W. de Gruchy
- Occupations
- theologian
- Biography
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John W. de Gruchy is a Christian theologian known for his work resisting apartheid. He is presently Emeritus Professor at the University of Cape Town and Extraordinary Professor at the University of Stellenbosch.
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Daniel Crosby Greene
- Occupations
- missionarypastorteacher
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Daniel Crosby Greene, was an American missionary of Christianity to Japan.
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C. Michael Smith
- Occupations
- psychologistanthropologist
- Biography
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C. Michael Smith is a clinical psychologist and scholar whose medical anthropological and theoretical work has focused on the study of healing systems across cultures. He holds that study of indigenous healing systems can help clarify the strengths and weaknesses of our own modern health care systems.
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Philo Carpenter
- Occupations
- pharmacist
- Biography
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Philo Carpenter was Chicago, Illinois' first pharmacist, and an outspoken abolitionist.
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Wilhelm Pauck
- Occupations
- church historiantheologianuniversity teacherbiographer
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Wilhelm Pauck was a German-American church historian and historical theologian in the field of Reformation studies whose fifty-year teaching career reached from the University of Chicago and Union Theological Seminary, to Vanderbilt and Stanford universities. His impact was extended through frequent lectures and visiting appointments in the U.S. and Europe. Pauck served as a bridge between the historical-critical study of Protestant theology at the University of Berlin and U.S. universities, seminaries, and divinity schools. Combining high critical acumen with a keen sense of the drama of human history, in his prime Pauck was considered the Dean of historical theology in the United States. In the course of his career he became associated with Reinhold Niebuhr and Paul Tillich as friend, colleague, and confidant.
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Winfield R. Gaylord
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- politician
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Winfield Romeo Gaylord was an American journalist, minister, and socialist lecturer. He represented the northwest side of the city of Milwaukee in the Wisconsin State Senate during the 1909 and 1911 sessions. He also ran for U.S. House of Representatives five times on the Socialist or Social Democratic ticket, and was a candidate for Governor of Wisconsin in 1906.
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Tasuku Harada
- Occupations
- professorpastoruniversity president
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Tasuku Harada was a Japanese pastor and the president of Doshisha University from 1907 to 1919. Harada started the University of Hawaii's Japanese Studies department in 1922.
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Dana W. Bartlett
- Occupations
- writer
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Dana Webster Bartlett was an American Congregationalist minister, settlement house director, and writer. He was an early advocate of the City Beautiful movement.
