13 Notable alumni of
Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary
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Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary is 2775th in the world, 967th in North America, and 915th 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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- peace activistuniversity teacherautobiographerdiplomathistorian
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George Stanley McGovern was an American historian and South Dakota politician who was a U.S. representative and three-term U.S. senator, and the Democratic Party presidential nominee in the 1972 presidential election.
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James Hal Cone
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- theologianChristian theologianpresbyter
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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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Rev. W.R. "Smokie" Norful, Jr. is an American gospel singer and pianist, best known for his 2002 album, I Need You Now and his 2004 release, Nothing Without You, which won a Grammy at the 47th Annual Grammy Awards for Best Contemporary Soul Gospel Album in 2004. Norful received his second Grammy in 2015 at the 57th Annual Grammy awards for his song "No Greater Love", ten years after winning his first.
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J. Gordon Melton
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- historianuniversity teachersociologist
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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.
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Henry C. Schadeberg
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- politician
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Henry Carl Schadeberg was a member of the United States House of Representatives from Wisconsin from 1961 – 1965 and 1967 – 1971. He was a Republican.
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Hobart Baumann Amstutz
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- theologianpriest
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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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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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- university teacherbiblical scholar
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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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Mary A. Ahrens
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- lawyerphilanthropistsuffragetteteacher
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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.
