13 Notable alumni of
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
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Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary is 2838th in the world, 976th in North America, and 923rd in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 13 notable alumni from Garrett-Evangelical 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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George McGovern
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- politicianhistoriandiplomatautobiographeruniversity teacher
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George Stanley McGovern was an American politician and historian who was a U.S. representative and three-term U.S. senator from South Dakota, and the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 U.S. presidential election.
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James H. Cone
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- presbyterChristian theologiantheologian
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James Hal Cone was an American Methodist minister and theologian. He is best known for his advocacy of black theology and black liberation theology. His 1969 book Black Theology and Black Power provided a new way to comprehensively define the distinctiveness of theology in the black church. His message was that Black Power, defined as black people asserting the humanity that white supremacy denied, was the gospel in America. Jesus came to liberate the oppressed, advocating the same thing as Black Power. He argued that white American churches preached a gospel based on white supremacy, antithetical to the gospel of Jesus.
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Smokie Norful
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- singer
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Willie Ray "Smokie" Norful Jr. is an American gospel singer and pianist.
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J. Gordon Melton
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- sociologistuniversity teacherhistorian
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John Gordon Melton is an American religious scholar who was the founding director of the Institute for the Study of American Religion and is currently the Distinguished Professor of American Religious History with the Institute for Studies of Religion at Baylor University in Waco, Texas where he resides. He is also an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church.
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Cathleen Falsani
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- journalist
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Cathleen Falsani is an American journalist and author. She specializes in the intersection of religion/spirituality/faith and culture, and has been a staff writer for the Chicago Sun Times, the Chicago Tribune, Sojourners magazine, Religion News Service, and the Orange County Register in Southern California. Falsani is the author of several non-fiction books on religious, spiritual, and cultural issues.
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Joseph Crane Hartzell
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- priest
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Joseph Crane Hartzell was an American Missionary Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church who served in the United States and in Africa. Hartzell missionary work included presiding over four Annual Sessions of the Liberia Annual Conference, organized the Congo Mission Conference and presided over the first sessions of the East Central Africa and West Central Africa Mission Conferences for which he was made a Knight Commander of the Order for the Redemption of Africa.
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Henry C. Schadeberg
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- politician
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Henry Carl Schadeberg was an American protestant minister and Republican politician from southeast Wisconsin. He was a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for four terms, representing Wisconsin's 1st congressional district from 1961 to 1965, and from 1967 to 1971. Schadeberg was an unabashed conservative and a strident anti-communist.
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George Carleton Lacy
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- priest
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George Carleton Lacy was an American Methodist missionary and the last Methodist bishop in mainland China.
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K. K. Yeo
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- biblical scholaruniversity teacher
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K. K. Yeo or YEO Khiok-Khng, is a Malaysian-born Chinese American scholar of the New Testament. He is known for his work in cross-cultural hermeneutics and global theologies.
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Hobart Baumann Amstutz
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- priesttheologian
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Hobart Baumann Amstutz was a bishop of the American Methodist Church and the United Methodist Church, elected in 1956.
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Mary A. Ahrens
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- philanthropistlawyerteachersuffragette
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Mary Ann Ahrens was an English-American teacher, lawyer, and social reformer.
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William A. Shanklin
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- pastor
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William Arnold Shanklin was a Methodist minister and an American university president.
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Eugene Allen Noble
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- academic
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Eugene Allen Noble was an American academic and Methodist minister. He served as president of three institutions: Centenary University from 1902 to 1908, Goucher College from 1908 to 1911, and Dickinson College from 1911 to 1914. He was also an administrator at the Juilliard School.
