100 Notable alumni of
Princeton Theological Seminary
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Princeton Theological Seminary is 754th in the world, 278th in North America, and 257th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 100 notable alumni from Princeton 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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Bart D. Ehrman
- Occupations
- university teachertheologianwriterphilologist
- Biography
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Bart Denton Ehrman is an American New Testament scholar focusing on textual criticism of the New Testament, the historical Jesus, and the origins and development of early Christianity. He has written and edited 30 books, including three college textbooks. He has also authored six New York Times bestsellers. He is the James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Dave Brat
- Enrolled in Princeton Theological Seminary
- In 1990 graduated with Master of Divinity
- Occupations
- university teacherpoliticianbusiness consultanteconomist
- Biography
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David Alan Brat is an American academic and former politician. A member of the Republican Party, Brat served as the U.S. representative for Virginia's 7th congressional district from 2014 to 2019.
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Elijah Parish Lovejoy
- Occupations
- journalisteditor
- Biography
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Elijah Parish Lovejoy was an American Presbyterian minister, journalist, newspaper editor, and abolitionist. After his murder by a mob, he became a martyr to the abolitionist cause opposing slavery in the United States. He was also hailed as a defender of free speech and freedom of the press.
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Jeb Stuart Magruder
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- writerpolitician
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Jeb Stuart Magruder was an American businessman and high-level political operative in the Republican Party who served time in prison for his role in the Watergate scandal.
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C. Peter Wagner
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- writertheologianmissionary
- Biography
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Charles Peter Wagner was an American missionary, writer, teacher and founder of several Independent Charismatic Christian organizations. He is known for leading and building the New Apostolic Reformation, a network in the Apostolic-Prophetic movement. In his earlier years, Wagner was known as a key leader of the Church Growth Movement and later for his writings on spiritual warfare.
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Henry van Dyke
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- writerdiplomatpoet
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Henry Jackson van Dyke Jr. was an American author, educator, diplomat, and Presbyterian clergyman.
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Howard Baskerville
- Occupations
- teacher
- Biography
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Howard Conklin Baskerville was an American missionary teacher. His life ambition was to become a pastor. He worked as a teacher employed by the American missionaries at the American Memorial School in Tabriz, a Presbyterian mission school, and was killed during the Persian constitutional revolution in an attempt to break the siege of Tabriz. He is often referred to as the "American Lafayette of Iran" and the "American Martyr of the Iranian Constitutional Movement".
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Cornelius van Til
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- university teachertheologian
- Biography
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Cornelius Van Til was a Dutch-American Reformed theologian, who is credited as being the originator of modern presuppositional apologetics.
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Greg Boyd
- Occupations
- writertheologian
- Biography
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Gregory A. Boyd is an American theologian, Anabaptist pastor, and author. Boyd is Senior Pastor of Woodland Hills Church in St. Paul, Minnesota and President of Reknew.org. He is one of the leading spokesmen in the growing Neo-Anabaptism movement, which is based in the tradition of Anabaptism and advocates Christian pacifism and a non-violent understanding of God.
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Bruce Manning Metzger
- Occupations
- biblical scholaruniversity teachertheologian
- Biography
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Bruce Manning Metzger was an American biblical scholar, Bible translator and textual critic who was a longtime professor at Princeton Theological Seminary and Bible editor who served on the board of the American Bible Society and United Bible Societies. He was a scholar of Greek, New Testament, and New Testament textual criticism, and wrote prolifically on these subjects. Metzger was an influential New Testament scholar of the 20th century. He was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 1986.
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William A. Dembski
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- theologianwritercomputer scientistphilosophermathematician
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William Albert Dembski is an American mathematician, philosopher and theologian. He was a proponent of intelligent design (ID) pseudoscience, specifically the concept of specified complexity, and was a senior fellow of the Discovery Institute's Center for Science and Culture (CSC). On September 23, 2016, he officially retired from intelligent design, resigning all his "formal associations with the ID community, including Discovery Institute fellowship of 20 years". A February 2021 interview in the CSC's blog Evolution News announced "his return to the intelligent design arena".
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B. B. Warfield
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- writeruniversity teachertheologian
- Biography
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Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield was an American professor of Reformed theology at Princeton Seminary from 1887 to 1921. He served as the last principal of the Princeton Theological Seminary from 1886 to 1902. After the death of Warfield in office, Francis Landey Patton took over the functions of the office as the first president of seminary. Some conservative Presbyterians consider him to be the last of the great Princeton theologians before the split in 1929 that formed Westminster Theological Seminary and the Orthodox Presbyterian Church.
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Charles Hodge
- Enrolled in Princeton Theological Seminary
- Studied in 1819
- Occupations
- university teachertheologian
- Biography
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Charles Hodge was a Reformed Presbyterian theologian and principal of Princeton Theological Seminary between 1851 and 1878.
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Louis Berkhof
- Occupations
- theologian
- Biography
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Louis Berkhof was a Dutch-American Reformed theologian whose works on systematic theology have been influential in seminaries and Bible colleges in the United States, Canada, Korea and with individual Christians in general throughout the 20th century.
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Joseph Ruggles Wilson
- Occupations
- university teacher
- Biography
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Joseph Ruggles Wilson Sr. was a prominent American Presbyterian theologian and father of President Woodrow Wilson, Nashville Banner editor Joseph Ruggles Wilson Jr., and Anne E. Wilson Howe. In 1861, as pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Augusta, Georgia, he organized the General Assembly of the newly formed Presbyterian Church in the United States, known as the Southern Presbyterian Church, and served as its clerk (chief executive officer) for 37 years.
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Robert Merrihew Adams
- Enrolled in Princeton Theological Seminary
- In 1962 graduated with Bachelor of Divinity
- Occupations
- university teachertheologianacademicphilosopher
- Biography
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Robert Merrihew Adams FBA was an American analytic philosopher. He specialized in metaphysics, philosophy of religion, ethics, and the history of early modern philosophy.
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Albert Barnes
- Occupations
- pastortheologianpreacherwriterabolitionist
- Biography
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Albert Barnes was an American theologian, clergyman, abolitionist, temperance advocate, and author. Barnes is best known for his extensive Bible commentary and notes on the Old and New Testaments, published in a total of 14 volumes in the 1830s.
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John Gresham Machen
- Occupations
- university teachertheologianpeace activistbiblical scholar
- Biography
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John Gresham Machen was an American Presbyterian New Testament scholar and educator in the early 20th century. He was the Professor of New Testament at Princeton Seminary between 1906 and 1929, and led a revolt against modernist theology at Princeton and formed Westminster Theological Seminary as a more orthodox alternative. As the Northern Presbyterian Church continued to reject conservative attempts to enforce faithfulness to the Westminster Confession, Machen led a small group of conservatives out of the church to form the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. When the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America (PCUSA) rejected his arguments during the mid-1920s and decided to reorganize Princeton Seminary to create a liberal school, Machen took the lead in founding Westminster Seminary in Philadelphia (1929) where he taught New Testament until his death. His continued opposition during the 1930s to liberalism in his denomination's foreign missions agencies led to the creation of a new organization, the Independent Board for Presbyterian Foreign Missions (1933). The trial, conviction and suspension from the ministry of Independent Board members, including Machen, in 1935 and 1936 provided the rationale for the formation in 1936 of the OPC.
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Margaret G. Kibben
- Enrolled in Princeton Theological Seminary
- Graduated with Doctor of Ministry
- Graduated with Master of Divinity
- Occupations
- military chaplainmilitary officer
- Biography
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Margaret Grun Kibben is an American Presbyterian minister who is the acting chaplain of the United States House of Representatives. Speaker Mike Johnson appointed Kibben as acting House chaplain on January 3, 2025. Johnson also stated that he is going to be replacing Kibben in the coming weeks.
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Geerhardus Vos
- Occupations
- theologian
- Biography
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Geerhardus Johannes Vos was a Dutch-American Calvinist theologian and one of the most distinguished representatives of the Princeton Theology. He is sometimes called the father of Reformed Biblical theology.
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Fred Thomson
- Occupations
- film actortheologianathletics competitoractor
- Biography
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Frederick Clifton Thomson was an American silent film cowboy who rivaled Tom Mix in popularity before dying at age 38 of tetanus.
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Marilyn McCord Adams
- Occupations
- university teachertheologianphilosopherChristian ministerpriestess
- Biography
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Marilyn McCord Adams was an American philosopher and Episcopal priest. She specialized in the philosophy of religion, philosophical theology, and medieval philosophy. She was Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology at Yale Divinity School from 1998 to 2003 and Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Oxford from 2004 to 2009.
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Tony Jones
- Years
- 1968-.. (age 57)
- Occupations
- theologian
- Biography
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Tony Jones is a leader in the Christian emerging church movement, a theologian, and an author.
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Sheldon Jackson
- Enrolled in Princeton Theological Seminary
- Studied in 1858
- Occupations
- missionary
- Biography
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Sheldon Jackson was a Presbyterian minister, missionary, and political leader. During this career he travelled about one million miles (1.6 million km) and established more than one hundred missions and churches, mostly in the Western United States. He performed extensive missionary work in Colorado and the Alaska Territory, including his efforts to suppress Native American languages.
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William H. Gray
- Enrolled in Princeton Theological Seminary
- Graduated with Master of Theology
- Occupations
- businesspersonpoliticianlobbyist
- Biography
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William Herbert Gray III was an American politician and member of the Democratic Party who represented Pennsylvania's 2nd congressional district from 1979 to 1991. He also served as chairman of the House Committee on the Budget from 1985 to 1989 and House Majority Whip from 1989 to 1991. He resigned from Congress in September of that year to become president and chief executive officer of the United Negro College Fund, a position he held until 2004.
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Conrad Tillard
- Occupations
- imamreligious leaderpoliticianChristian ministeractivist
- Biography
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Conrad Bennette Tillard is an American Baptist minister, radio host, activist, politician, and author.
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Richard Falley Cleveland
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Richard Falley Cleveland was an American Congregationalist and Presbyterian minister. A graduate of Yale College and Princeton Theological Seminary, Cleveland spent most of his life as a pastor, outside of a brief period as a district secretary for the American Home Missionary Society. He was the father of Grover Cleveland, who served as President of the United States twice.
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Robert A. J. Gagnon
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- university teachertheologian
- Biography
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Robert A. J. Gagnon is an American theological writer, professor of New Testament Theology at Houston Baptist University (since 2018), former associate professor of the New Testament at the Pittsburgh Theological Seminary (1994ā2017), an expert on biblical homosexuality, and an elder in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). He holds a BA from Dartmouth, an MTS from Harvard Divinity School, and a PhD from the Princeton Theological Seminary.
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Richard C. Halverson
- Enrolled in Princeton Theological Seminary
- Graduated with Bachelor of Theology
- Occupations
- theologianChristian ministerauthor
- Biography
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Richard Christian Halverson was an American Presbyterian minister and author who served as the chaplain of the United States Senate.
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Henry Augustus Boardman
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- cleric
- Biography
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Henry Augustus Boardman was an American minister and author.
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Helen-Ann Hartley
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- priest
- Biography
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Helen-Ann Macleod Hartley is a British Anglican diocesean bishop, Lord Spiritual, and academic. Since 2023, she has served as the 13th Bishop of Newcastle in the Church of England. She previously served as Bishop of Waikato in New Zealand from 2014 to 2017, and area Bishop of Ripon in the Diocese of Leeds from 2018 to 2023. She was the first woman to have trained as a priest in the Church of England to join the episcopate, and the third woman to become a bishop of the Anglican Church in Aotearoa, New Zealand and Polynesia. At the times of her appointments to Leeds and Newcastle she was respectively the youngest bishop and youngest diocesan bishop in the Church of England. She has repeatedly criticised senior bishops on matters related to safeguarding and power dynamics.
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Darnell L. Moore
- Occupations
- writeractivist
- Biography
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Darnell L. Moore is an American writer and activist whose work is informed by anti-racist, feminist, queer of color, and anti-colonial thought and advocacy. Darnell's essays, social commentary, poetry, and interviews have appeared in various national and international media venues, including the Feminist Wire, Ebony magazine, The Huffington Post, The New York Times, and The Advocate.
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Arthur Tappan Pierson
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Arthur Tappan Pierson was an American Presbyterian pastor, Christian leader, missionary and writer who preached over 13,000 sermons, wrote over fifty books, and gave Bible lectures as part of a transatlantic preaching ministry that made him famous in Scotland, England, and Korea. He was a consulting editor for the original "Scofield Reference Bible" (1909) for his friend, C. I. Scofield and was also a friend of D. L. Moody, George MĆ¼ller (whose biography 'George Muller of Bristol' he wrote), Adoniram Judson Gordon, and C. H. Spurgeon, whom he succeeded in the pulpit of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, London, from 1891 to 1893. Throughout his career, Pierson filled several pulpit positions around the world as an urban pastor who cared passionately for the poor.
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Chang Sang
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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Chang Sang is a South Korean academic and politician who briefly served as the first female prime minister of South Korea when president Kim Dae-jung reshuffled his cabinet in July 2002.
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Woodrow M. Kroll
- Occupations
- radio personality
- Biography
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Woodrow Michael Kroll is an evangelical preacher and radio host. He was the president and Bible teacher for the international Back to the Bible radio and television ministry. He was president of Davis College (formerly Practical Bible College) in Johnson City, New York, United States.
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Archibald Alexander Hodge
- Enrolled in Princeton Theological Seminary
- Studied in 1845
- Occupations
- university teachertheologian
- Biography
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Archibald Alexander Hodge, an American Presbyterian minister, was the principal of Princeton Seminary between 1878 and 1886.
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John Pilley
- Years
- 1928-2018 (aged 90)
- Occupations
- ethologistdog traineracademic
- Biography
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John W. Pilley was an American behavioral psychologist best known for his research into canine cognition and language learning with his Border collie, Chaser, who had the largest tested memory of any non-human animal. He was a professor emeritus in the Department of Psychology at Wofford College and was an avid kayaker throughout his life. Pilley was awarded an honorary Doctor of Psychology from Wofford College in 2016.
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John Alexander Mackay
- Occupations
- university teachertheologianmissionaryphilosopher
- Biography
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John A. Mackay was a Presbyterian theologian, missionary, and educator. He was a strong advocate of the Ecumenical Movement and World Christianity.
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John Grier Hibben
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- philosopherlogicianeducator
- Biography
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John Grier Hibben was a Presbyterian minister, a philosopher, and educator. He served as president of Princeton University from 1912ā1932, succeeding Woodrow Wilson and implementing many of the reforms started by Wilson. His term as President began after the term of Acting Princeton President Stewart, who served for two years after Wilson's departure.
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William Henry Green
- Enrolled in Princeton Theological Seminary
- Studied in 1846
- Occupations
- university teachertheologianacademic
- Biography
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William Henry Green, was an American scholar of the Hebrew language. He was born in Groveville, near Bordentown, New Jersey.
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D. Michael Lindsay
- Occupations
- sociologist
- Biography
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David Michael Lindsay is an American sociologist and the president of Taylor University. He was also president of Gordon College, a private, Evangelical Christian liberal arts college on Boston's North Shore from 2011 to 2021. Before arriving at Gordon, Lindsay was on faculty for five years at Rice University and the James A. Baker III Institute for Public Policy. He studies leadership, elites, evangelicalism, and higher education.
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Mar Aprem Mooken
- Occupations
- priest
- Biography
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Mar Aprem Mooken is the Metropolitan of the Assyrian Church of the East (Classical Syriac: Ü„ÜÜ¬Ü ÜÜ”ÜÜ¢ÜÜ ÜÜܬÜÜĢÜÜ) in India (Chaldean Syrian Church).
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Eugene Carson Blake
- Occupations
- theologian
- Biography
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Eugene Carson Blake was an American Presbyterian Church leader.
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Ronald C. White
- Occupations
- writer
- Biography
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Ronald Cedric "Ron" White Jr. is an American historian, author, and lecturer. He has written bestselling and award-winning biographies of Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant, as well as three other books on Lincoln and a biography of Joshua Chamberlain. He is a senior fellow at the Trinity Forum.
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John Clarke Young
- Enrolled in Princeton Theological Seminary
- In 1828 graduated with Doctor of Divinity
- Occupations
- educatorpastor
- Biography
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John Clarke Young was an American educator and pastor who was the fourth president of Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. A graduate of Dickinson College and Princeton Theological Seminary, he entered the ministry in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1828. He accepted the presidency of Centre College in 1830, holding the position until his death in 1857, making him the longest-serving president in the college's history. He is regarded as one of the college's best presidents, as he increased the endowment of the college more than five-fold during his term and increased the graduating class size from two students in his first year to forty-seven in his final year.
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Samuel Simon Schmucker
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- theologian
- Biography
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Samuel Simon Schmucker was a German-American Lutheran pastor and theologian. He was integral to the founding of the Lutheran church body known as the General Synod, as well as the oldest continuously operating Lutheran seminary (Gettysburg Seminary) and college in North America (Gettysburg College).
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Francis Landey Patton
- Occupations
- writertheologian
- Biography
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Francis Landey Patton was a Bermudan-American educator, Presbyterian minister, academic administrator, and theologian, and served as the twelfth president of Princeton University.
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Noble Leslie DeVotie
- Biography
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Noble Leslie DeVotie was a Baptist minister, Confederate chaplain, and the lead founder of Sigma Alpha Epsilon, a national fraternity.
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Caspar RenƩ Gregory
- Occupations
- translatortheologianuniversity teachertextual criticism of the New Testamentphilologist
- Biography
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Caspar RenƩ Gregory was an American-born German theologian.
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Paul C. H. Lim
- Years
- 1967-.. (age 58)
- Occupations
- historian
- Biography
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Paul Chang-Ha Lim an American ecclesiastical historian who serves as professor of church history at Vanderbilt University Divinity School. His main research involves the intellectual history and historical theology of Reformation and post-Reformation England.
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Mark L. Tidd
- Years
- 1955-.. (age 70)
- Enrolled in Princeton Theological Seminary
- Graduated with Master of Theology
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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Mark Luzerne Tidd is a former United States Navy officer who served as the 25th Chief of Chaplains of the United States Navy from 2010 to 2014.
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Joseph P. Watkins
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 71)
- Biography
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Joe Watkins is an American pastor of the Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church in Philadelphia. He is a Philadelphia-based Republican media analyst who often appears on MSNBC, and is host of Joe Watkins: State of Independence on Lighthouse TV. He has been married to Stephanie Taylor Watkins since 1975. They have three children.
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Jonathan Lee Walton
- Years
- 1973-.. (age 52)
- Occupations
- teachertheologian
- Biography
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Jonathan Lee Walton is an American author, ethicist and religious scholar. He is the President of Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, New Jersey. He was previously Dean of Wake Forest University School of Divinity, Presidential Chair in Religion & Society and Dean of Wait Chapel. He is the author of A Lens of Love: Reading the Bible in its World for Our World.
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Herbert Adams Gibbons
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Herbert Adams Gibbons was an American missionary and journalist who wrote about international politics and European colonialism during the early 20th century.
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William Imbrie
- Occupations
- missionary
- Biography
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William Imbrie was an American missionary to Japan.
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Sherwood Eddy
- Occupations
- missionaryevangelist
- Biography
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George Sherwood Eddy was an American Protestant missionary, administrator and educator. He authored numerous works and traveled extensively to promote dialogue and understanding between missionaries and local communities, particularly in Asia and the Middle East. He played a role in establishing networks of Christian intellectuals across different regions. His contributions to Protestant communities in the United States and abroad have been recognized as influential. From the 1930s onwards, he became a Christian socialist.
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George Washington Gale
- Occupations
- educatorclergyman
- Biography
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George Washington Gale was a Presbyterian minister who founded the Oneida Institute of Science and Industry. He later purchased land in Illinois that became Galesburg, Illinois, named in his honor, and was instrumental in founding Knox College.
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Theodore S. Wright
- Years
- 1797-1847 (aged 50)
- Occupations
- politicianChristian minister
- Biography
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Theodore Sedgwick Wright, sometimes Theodore Sedgewick Wright, was an African-American abolitionist and minister who was active in New York City, where he led the First Colored Presbyterian Church as its second pastor. He was the first African American to attend Princeton Theological Seminary (and any United States theological seminary), from which he graduated in 1828 or 1829. In 1833 he became a founding member of the American Anti-Slavery Society, an interracial group that included Samuel Cornish, a Black Presbyterian, and many Congregationalists, and served on its executive committee until 1840.
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James Waddel Alexander
- Enrolled in Princeton Theological Seminary
- Studied in 1824
- Occupations
- pastorclergymantheologian
- Biography
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James Waddel Alexander was an American Presbyterian minister and theologian who followed in the footsteps of his father, the Rev. Archibald Alexander.
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John Williamson Nevin
- Occupations
- theologian
- Biography
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John Williamson Nevin, was an American theologian and educator. He was born in the Cumberland Valley, near Shippensburg, Franklin County, Pennsylvania. He was the father of noted sculptor and poet Blanche Nevin.
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William Jacob Holland
- Occupations
- scientific illustratorzoologistnaturalistuniversity teacherpaleontologist
- Biography
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Rev William Jacob Holland FRSE LLD was the eighth Chancellor of the University of Pittsburgh (1891ā1901) and Director of the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh. He was an accomplished lepidopterist, zoologist, and paleontologist, as well as an ordained Presbyterian minister.
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David Trumbull
- Occupations
- missionary
- Biography
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David Trumbull was an early Protestant missionary in Chile and the founder of the Presbyterian Church in that country.
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Heup Young Kim
- Years
- 1949-.. (age 76)
- Occupations
- teachertheologian
- Biography
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Heup Young Kim is a Korean Christian theologian and a scholar of East Asian religions, particularly Confucianism and Daoism (scholar). He specializes in Asian constructive theology, interfaith dialogue, religion and science (books), and is a leading proponent and architect of the Theology of Dao (Theo-dao), which integrates Christian theology with East Asian wisdom traditions.
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Lorrin Andrews
- Occupations
- judgeBible translatortranslatorlexicographer
- Biography
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Lorrin Andrews was an early American missionary to Hawaii and judge. He opened the first post-secondary school for Hawaiians called Lahainaluna Seminary, prepared a Hawaiian dictionary and several works on the literature and antiquities of the Hawaiians. His students published the first newspaper, and were involved in the first case of counterfeiting currency in Hawaii. He later served as a judge and became a member of Hawaii's first Supreme Court.
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Phineas Densmore Gurley
- Biography
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Phineas Densmore Gurley was Chaplain of the United States Senate and pastor of New York Avenue Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C.
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Charles McEwen Hyde
- Occupations
- missionary
- Biography
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Charles McEwen Hyde was a Congregationalist missionary who arrived in Hawaii in 1877. He was instrumental in establishing and supporting schools to educate and train the Hawaiian population of the time. Hyde mentored native Hawaiians who wanted to enter the Christian ministry, and he helped provide smallpox vaccinations for the population. He was a descendant of Scottish Covenanters, and one of the original five trustees of Kamehameha Schools. Private correspondence about Father Damien, penned by Hyde and published without his permission, sparked a heated public rebuke from Robert Louis Stevenson who expressed his belief that sainthood lay ahead for Damien.
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William Patterson Alexander
- Occupations
- missionary
- Biography
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William Patterson Alexander was an American missionary to the Kingdom of Hawaii. His family continued to influence the history of Hawaii.
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Samuel Hugh Moffett
- Years
- 1916-2015 (aged 99)
- Occupations
- university teacherhistorianchurch historianmissionary
- Biography
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Samuel Hugh Moffett was an American Christian missionary and academic who latterly served as professor emeritus at the Princeton Theological Seminary. He was regarded as a leading scholar on Christianity in Asia, and was the author of numerous publications, including the two-volume series of A History of Christianity in Asia.
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William Swan Plumer
- Years
- 1802-1880 (aged 78)
- Occupations
- Christian minister
- Biography
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William Swan Plumer was an American clergyman, theologian and author who was recognized as an intellectual leader of the Presbyterian Church in the 1800s.
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Brian Blount
- Occupations
- biblical scholarChristian ministerteacher
- Biography
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Brian K. Blount is a Presbyterian minister, New Testament scholar and past President of Union Presbyterian Seminary. He is a preacher and scholar on the Book of Revelation.
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Samuel Laws
- Occupations
- inventor
- Biography
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Samuel Spahr Laws was an American minister, professor, physician, college president, businessman and inventor best known today as the inventor of the Laws Gold Indicator, a predecessor of the ticker tape machine. He was an 1848 graduate and class valedictorian of Miami University in Oxford, Ohio and a member of the Alpha chapter of Beta Theta Pi, founded nine years before his graduation in 1839.
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William Buell Sprague
- Occupations
- historiantheologianbiographer
- Biography
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William Buell Sprague was an American Congregational and Presbyterian clergyman and compiler of Annals of the American Pulpit (nine volumes, 1857ā1869), a comprehensive biographical dictionary of the leading American Protestant Christian ministers who died before 1850.
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Earl F. Palmer
- Occupations
- Christian minister
- Biography
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Earl Frank Palmer was an American Presbyterian minister and Reverend. He served in pastoral ministries at University Presbyterian Church in Seattle, Union Church in Manila, First Presbyterian Church of Berkeley, and The National Presbyterian Church in Washington, D.C. Palmer was known for his expositional preaching and teaching style. He had a strong interest in pursuing theological themes that are present in classic and contemporary literature, with focus on authors such as C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien, Karl Barth, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Palmer wrote over 20 books, and served on the boards of Princeton Theological Seminary, New College Berkeley, Whitworth University and Regent College.
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Stephen Alexander
- Enrolled in Princeton Theological Seminary
- Studied in 1832
- Occupations
- astronomeruniversity teacherauthor
- Biography
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Stephen Alexander was an American astronomer and educator.
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Peter Johnson Gulick
- Occupations
- missionary
- Biography
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Peter Johnson Gulick was a missionary to the Kingdom of Hawaii and Japan. His descendants carried on the tradition of missionary work, and included several scientists.
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John Livingston Nevius
- Years
- 1829-1893 (aged 64)
- Occupations
- missionarywriter
- Biography
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John Livingston Nevius was an American Protestant missionary in China for forty years, appointed by the American Presbyterian Mission; his ideas on mission organization were also very important in the spread of the church in Korea. He wrote several books on the themes of Chinese religions, customs and social life, and missionary work.
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George Forell
- Occupations
- theologian
- Biography
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George Wolfgang Forell was the Carver Distinguished Chair of Religion in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Iowa. He was a scholar, author, lecturer, and guest professor in the field of Christian ethics.
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Derek Browning
- Years
- 1962-.. (age 63)
- Occupations
- civil servant
- Biography
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Derek Browning is a minister of the Church of Scotland, who was the Moderator of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland from May 2017 to May 2018
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Henry Martyn Baird
- Occupations
- historianwriter
- Biography
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Henry Martyn Baird was an American historian and educator. He is best known as a historian of the Huguenots.
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Jonathan Townley Crane
- Occupations
- cleric
- Biography
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Jonathan Townley Crane was an American clergyman, author and abolitionist. He was born in Connecticut Farms, in Union Township, New Jersey, and is most widely known as the father of writer Stephen Crane.
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Basil Manly, Jr
- Occupations
- theologian
- Biography
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Basil Manly Jr. was an American Baptist minister and educator. He was one of a group of theologians instrumental in the formation of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in South Carolina.
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John Finley Crowe
- Occupations
- teacherChristian minister
- Biography
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John Finley Crowe was a Presbyterian minister and the founder of Hanover College in Hanover, Indiana.
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Caleb Cook Baldwin
- Occupations
- missionary
- Biography
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Caleb Cook Baldwin was one of the first Congregationalist missionaries to Fuzhou, China.
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Frederick H. Borsch
- Occupations
- priest
- Biography
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Frederick Houk Borsch was the Episcopal bishop of Los Angeles from 1988 to 2002, then served as interim dean of the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale University and chair of Anglican studies at the Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia.
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Neil M. Stevenson
- Enrolled in Princeton Theological Seminary
- Graduated with Master of Theology
- Occupations
- military personnelChristian minister
- Biography
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Neil MacGill Stevenson was a rear admiral and Chief of Chaplains of the United States Navy.
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Joseph Alden
- Enrolled in Princeton Theological Seminary
- Studied in 1829-1831
- Occupations
- stated supplypastorwriteracademic
- Biography
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Joseph Alden was an American academic and Presbyterian pastor.
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John Alexis Edgren
- Occupations
- military officer
- Biography
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John Alexis Edgren was a Swedish-American Baptist minister. Edgren began what eventually evolved into Bethel University and the Bethel Theological Seminary in St. Paul, Minnesota.
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Lincoln Hurst
- Years
- 1946-2008 (aged 62)
- Occupations
- religious studies scholar
- Biography
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Lincoln Douglas Hurst, also known as "Lincoln Hurst", "L. D. Hurst", or "Lincoln D. Hurst", was an American scholar of the Bible, religious history and film. He was Emeritus Professor at the University of California, Davis (1983ā2006), and adjunct professor at Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California (1987ā2008).
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John Davis Pierce
- Occupations
- university teacherpolitician
- Biography
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John Davis Pierce was an American minister, educator and politician. He was Michigan's first superintendent of public schools, a position new to the United States, where he established Michigan's public school system. His work has been compared to that of Horace Mann's.
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Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg
- Occupations
- teacher
- Biography
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Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg was an American educator and Lutheran clergyman who served as president of Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, and as a Greek language and literature professor at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia.
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Baynard Rush Hall
- Years
- 1798-1863 (aged 65)
- Occupations
- classical scholartheologian
- Biography
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Baynard Rush Hall was an American academic and Christian minister. A native of Pennsylvania, he served churches and academic institutions in the East for most of his life. However, he was a resident of Indiana for several years, during which time he served as the first faculty member of what today is Indiana University.
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Charles Clinton Beatty
- Years
- 1800-1882 (aged 82)
- Occupations
- religious figure
- Biography
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Charles Clinton Beatty was a Presbyterian minister, seminary founder, and academic philanthropist.
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Richard Armstrong
- Occupations
- missionary
- Biography
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Richard Armstrong was a Presbyterian missionary from Pennsylvania who arrived in Hawaii in 1832. With his wife, Clarissa, he served in mission fields of the Marquesas Islands and in the Kingdom of Hawaii. He established several churches and schools, and was Kahu (shepherd) of KawaiahaŹ»o Church after the departure of Hiram Bingham I. Kamehameha III appointed him Minister of Public Instruction, and his accomplishments established an educational system that earned him the nickname "The father of American education in Hawaii".
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John Maclean
- Occupations
- language teacher
- Biography
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John Maclean Jr., D.D. was an American Presbyterian clergyman and educator who served as the tenth President of Princeton University, then known as the College of New Jersey. Maclean, the son of the first professor of chemistry at the College of New Jersey, grew up in Princeton, New Jersey. He attended the College and later Princeton Theological Seminary. At age 23, he became full professor of mathematics at the university. Six years later, he became university vice president. He was responsible for bringing a number of renown scholars and academics to the college. During this time, he also left mathematics and became professor of ancient languages. Maclean was one of the chief architects of the state's public education system. His plan for a state normal school, local boards of education and nonsectarian public schools was adopted by the state legislature. He became president of the College of New Jersey in 1854. He led the university through the 1855 burning of Nassau Hall and the American Civil War. After retiring from his post after 14 years in office, he wrote a two-volume history of the university. He served as the honorary president of the university's Alumni Association until his death.
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John L. Withrow
- Years
- 1837-1909 (aged 72)
- Occupations
- theologian
- Biography
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John Lindsay Withrow was an American Presbyterian minister and theologian.
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Ralph Cooper Hutchison
- Occupations
- missionary
- Biography
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Ralph Cooper Hutchison was president of Washington & Jefferson College and Lafayette College.
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James D. Moffat
- Biography
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James David Moffat was the 3rd president of Washington & Jefferson College.
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Jacqueline Lapsley
- Years
- 1965-.. (age 60)
- Occupations
- academic
- Biography
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Jacqueline E. Lapsley serves as President, and Professor of Old Testament at Union Presbyterian Seminary, and served as Dean and Vice President of Academic Affairs and Professor of Old Testament at Princeton Theological Seminary (PTS). Her research interests lie in various fields, including literary theory, ethics (with a specific focus on creation ethics), theological anthropology, and gender theory. These disciplines serve as valuable tools for Lapsley when approaching theological interpretations of the Old Testament.
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William Cassaday Cattell
- Occupations
- clergyman
- Biography
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Rev. William Cassady Cattell D.D., LL.D was a Presbyterian divine and educator of the United States and the 7th president of Lafayette College.
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Robert D. Workman
- Enrolled in Princeton Theological Seminary
- Studied in 1915
- Occupations
- military personnelChristian minister
- Biography
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Robert DuBois Workman was the U.S. Navy chief of chaplains during most of World War II from 1937 to 1945 and oversaw an increase of chaplains from less than 90 to more than 2800. He was of the Presbyterian faith. Workman was the first Chief of Chaplains to be promoted to rear admiral while still on active duty.
