Andover Newton Theological School
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Andover Newton Theological School (ANTS) is a graduate school
and seminary
located in Newton, Massachusetts
. It is America's oldest graduate seminary and the nation's first graduate institution of any kind. Affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA
and the United Church of Christ
, it is also a member of the Boston Theological Institute
and is an official open and affirming
seminary.
: Andover Theological Seminary and Newton Theological Institute. Andover Newton takes the earlier founding date (1807) of the Andover Theological seminary for its founding year.
Andover Newton is America's oldest graduate seminary and the nation's first graduate institution of any kind. The school created the educational model used by almost all Protestant seminaries today and pioneered many training programs for prospective clergy, including Field Education. Its faculty have always ranked among the most distinguished in theological education, and its alumni and alumnae have included important abolitionists, educators, clergy, and theologians; three presidents of Brown University
; the founding presidents of Wabash College
, Grinnell College
, and the Union Theological Seminary
in New York City; one of the most important presidents of Dartmouth College
; and major figures in many areas of American life and culture.
who fled Harvard College
after it appointed liberal theologian Henry Ware
to the Hollis Professorship of Divinity in 1805. Widely reported in the national press,the founding by the Calvinists was one of the significant events that contributed to the split in the Congregationalist denominations, and to the eventual founding of the American Unitarian Association
in 1825. The Unitarians in 1961 joined the Universalists to become the Unitarian Universalist Association
.
The new school built a suite of Federal-style buildings at Phillips Academy
in Andover, Massachusetts
, which the school occupied for its first century. (Most of the original seminary campus survives today as part of the historic core of the Phillips Academy campus.)
Before Andover was founded, American Protestant clergymen attended undergraduate college, then learned their profession by studying under a minister. The new seminary was the first to formalize graduate study for clergymen with a resident student body and resident faculty. The program was for three years of study in four subjects: the Bible
, church history, doctrinal theology and the practical arts of ministry.
In 1908, Harvard Divinity School
and Andover attempted to reconcile, and for a period of 18 years shared Harvard's Cambridge, Massachusetts
campus. The seminary moved its faculty and library to Cambridge, built a large academic-Gothic style facility there, and began to develop plans for a more formal merger with Harvard. However, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts disallowed the alliance. Although the court decision was later reversed, Andover eventually relocated to the Newton Centre campus of the Newton Theological Institution in 1931.
The original Andover Seminary library remained on the Harvard campus, where, merged with the library collections of the Harvard Divinity School, it is now known as the Andover-Harvard Theological Library.
Harvard later purchased the school's Cambridge real estate, which, known as Andover Hall, now houses most of the Harvard Divinity School. Although the planned merger with Harvard was never completed, the two schools remained loosely affiliated. Andover Newton students and faculty have access to the Harvard College Library system and Andover Newton students can register for classes at any of the university's schools.
as a graduate seminary formally affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA
. Its founders were Joseph Grafton
, Lucius Bolles
, Daniel Sharp, Jonathan Going, Bela Jacobs, Ebenezer Nelson, Francis Wayland
, Henry Jackson, Ensign Lincoln, Jonathan Bacheller, and Nathaniel R. Cobb.
An important early benefactor and long-time treasurer of Newton Theological Institution was Gardner Colby
, Boston industrialist and resident of Newton Centre near the campus. Colby Hall and Colby Chapel on the Andover Newton campus were named in his honor. Colby also contributed to a number of other New England Baptist institutions, including Brown University and Colby College
in Waterville, Maine
, which was also named in his honor.
Since 1931, the facilities of the Newton Centre campus have expanded many times, especially during a boom in enrollment during the 1950s and '60s. The latest addition is Wilson Chapel, a modern interpretation of the traditional New England meetinghouse, constructed to mark the school's bicentenary in 2007.
, designed by the distinguished architect Moshe Safdie
. The two schools collaborate on a number of interfaith programs and their students can cross register for classes.
In 2010, Andover Newton and Meadville Lombard Theological School
, a Chicago-based seminary affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Association
, announced plans to create a "new university-style institution" at the Newton Centre campus, with an interfaith model for theological education. Meadville would sell its campus in Chicago and become the "Unitarian" division of the new institution, with Andover Newton becoming the "Christian" component. The two institutions withdrew from the plan in April 2011, citing issues related to governance and finances.
in 1978, and grants master's degree
s as well as a doctor of ministry
. Andover Newton students are also allowed to take classes in any of Harvard University
's ten graduate schools due to the prior affiliation of Andover Theological Seminary and Harvard. There were 350 students enrolled in 2007, who represent 35 Christian denominations; United Church of Christ students remain the largest segment of the student body, followed by Unitarian Universalists and Baptists.
The residential hill-top campus just outside the village of Newton Centre resembles that of a classic New England college, with red brick dormitories, a dining hall, and academic buildings around a tree-lined quadrangle. Wilson Chapel, in gray stone, forms a central focus of both the space and of campus activities. There are fine views of the Boston skyline and Great Blue Hill in the distance. The self-contained campus, with easy access to Boston, is the epicenter of student life. The Massachusetts Bible Society and the Boston Theological Institute (BTI) also have offices here, as do parts of Hebrew College.
Prior to the American Civil War, when there were few fully developed graduate programs in the United States, the two schools trained some of the nation's most important scholars, linguists, social activists, educational innovators, and college presidents as well as many of its leading Protestant clergy.
Adoniram Judson
, class of 1810, is one of the earliest notable alumni and among the first U.S. missionaries sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
. He later became a Baptist
missionary to Myanmar
, then known as Burma. Thomas Hopkins Gaullaudet, class of 1814, was the founder of education for the deaf in the United States, established the first American school for the deaf, and was the principal developer developer of what became American Sign Language. Gaulladet University in Washington, DC, was renamed in his honor in 1893. Hiram Bingham and Asa Thurston, class of 1816, were the first missionaries to Hawaii, where they devised an alphabet for written Hawaiian. Francis Wayland entered Andover Theological Seminary in 1816 but was too poor to complete his studies there. He later helped found Newton Theological Institution. Like two later Newton alumni, Wayland was president of Brown University. He held the position for 28 years and is remembered as one of that school's most important early leaders.
David Oliver Allen
, class of 1824, was an American missionary
. Calvin Ellis Stowe, class of 1828 and later a faculty member at Andover, is considered one of the creators of the American public school system. He published widely on issues of public education and established the College of Teachers in Cincinnati. A prominent abolitionist, he was married to Harriett Beecher Stowe, author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and was an enthusiastic supporter of her literary career.
Nehemiah Adams
, class of 1829, was a clergyman and author. Bela Bates Edwards
, class of 1830, was editor of American Quarterly Observer, Biblical Repository, and Bibliotheca Sacra
. William Adams
, class of 1830, was one of the founders of the Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York
and later its president. Caleb Mills
, class of 1833, was the founding president and first faculty member of Wabash College is considered the father of the Indiana
public education system. Samuel Francis Smith
, class of 1834, was the Baptist minister who wrote the words to America or My Country, 'Tis of Thee
while still a student on the Andover campus (where his dormitory, still in use at Phillips Academy, is now known as "America House").
George Frederick Magoun
, class of 1847, was co-founder and the first president of Grinnell College
George Park Fisher
, class of 1851, was a church historian and president of the American Historical Association
. Charles Augustus Aiken
, class of 1853, was a noted professor of Latin at Dartmouth, the sixth president of Union College
, and later taught at Princeton Theological Seminary. William Jewett Tucker
, class of 1866 and later an Andover faculty member, was described at his death as "the great president" of Dartmouth College
who transformed a small, rural, regional school into a major Ivy League university. The Tucker Foundation at Dartmouth was founded to carry on his legacy on campus. George Trumbull Ladd
, class of 1869, was an American philosopher, educator, and psychologist. William Scott Ament
, class of 1877, was a controversial Congregational missionary to China criticised by Mark Twain
.
Claude Black
, class of 1943, was pastor of Mt. Zion First Baptist Church
, a civil rights icon, and politician. Albert Edward Winship
is known for his work as an educator, and Joseph Hardy Neesima
did not graduate, but was the founder and president of Doshisha University
in Japan
. Ferdinand "Frank" Fuentes is the founding executive director of the Latino Policy Institute at Roger Williams University.
Lucius Walker
, a 1958 graduate, was a Baptist minister best known for his opposition to the United States embargo against Cuba
.
Among the important theologians, clergy, and scholars who have taught at the school are alumni Calvin Ellis Stowe and William Jewett Tucker, the distinguished theologian and church historian George Foot Moore, the poet, critic and New Testament scholar Amos Niven Wilder (brother of the writer Thornton Wilder), theologian Harvey Cox, author of "The Secular City," scholar of Christian social ethics, international peace activist, and vice president of the National Council of Churches Jane Cary Peck and community organizer and internationally known missiologist, Orlando E. Costas.
Current faculty includes alumnus S. Mark Heim, Sarah Drummond, and Carole R. Fontaine.
Graduate school
A graduate school is a school that awards advanced academic degrees with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous undergraduate degree...
and seminary
Seminary
A seminary, theological college, or divinity school is an institution of secondary or post-secondary education for educating students in theology, generally to prepare them for ordination as clergy or for other ministry...
located in Newton, Massachusetts
Newton, Massachusetts
Newton is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States bordered to the east by Boston. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the population of Newton was 85,146, making it the eleventh largest city in the state.-Villages:...
. It is America's oldest graduate seminary and the nation's first graduate institution of any kind. Affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA
American Baptist Churches USA
The American Baptist Churches USA is a Baptist Christian denomination within the United States. The denomination maintains headquarters in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. The organization is usually considered mainline, although varying theological and mission emphases may be found among its...
and the United Church of Christ
United Church of Christ
The United Church of Christ is a mainline Protestant Christian denomination primarily in the Reformed tradition but also historically influenced by Lutheranism. The Evangelical and Reformed Church and the Congregational Christian Churches united in 1957 to form the UCC...
, it is also a member of the Boston Theological Institute
Boston Theological Institute
Boston Theological Institute is the largest theological consortium in the world, bringing together the resources of universities and divinity schools throughout the greater Boston area and some of the most prestigious educational institutions...
and is an official open and affirming
Open and affirming
Open and Affirming is an official designation of congregations and other settings within the United Church of Christ denomination affirming the full inclusion of gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender persons in that setting's life and ministry.The Open and Affirming program is administered...
seminary.
History
Andover Newton is a product of a 1965 merger between two schools of theologyTheology
Theology is the systematic and rational study of religion and its influences and of the nature of religious truths, or the learned profession acquired by completing specialized training in religious studies, usually at a university or school of divinity or seminary.-Definition:Augustine of Hippo...
: Andover Theological Seminary and Newton Theological Institute. Andover Newton takes the earlier founding date (1807) of the Andover Theological seminary for its founding year.
Andover Newton is America's oldest graduate seminary and the nation's first graduate institution of any kind. The school created the educational model used by almost all Protestant seminaries today and pioneered many training programs for prospective clergy, including Field Education. Its faculty have always ranked among the most distinguished in theological education, and its alumni and alumnae have included important abolitionists, educators, clergy, and theologians; three presidents of Brown University
Brown University
Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
; the founding presidents of Wabash College
Wabash College
Wabash College is a small, private, liberal arts college for men, located in Crawfordsville, Indiana. Along with Hampden-Sydney College and Morehouse College, Wabash is one of only three remaining traditional all-men's liberal arts colleges in the United States.-History:Wabash College was founded...
, Grinnell College
Grinnell College
Grinnell College is a private liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, U.S. known for its strong tradition of social activism. It was founded in 1846, when a group of pioneer New England Congregationalists established the Trustees of Iowa College....
, and the Union Theological Seminary
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York is a preeminent independent graduate school of theology, located in Manhattan between Claremont Avenue and Broadway, 120th to 122nd Streets. The seminary was founded in 1836 under the Presbyterian Church, and is affiliated with nearby Columbia...
in New York City; one of the most important presidents of Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
; and major figures in many areas of American life and culture.
Andover
Andover Theological Seminary was founded in 1807 by orthodox CalvinistsCalvinism
Calvinism is a Protestant theological system and an approach to the Christian life...
who fled Harvard College
Harvard College
Harvard College, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is one of two schools within Harvard University granting undergraduate degrees...
after it appointed liberal theologian Henry Ware
Henry Ware (Unitarian)
Henry Ware was a preacher and theologian influential in the formation of Unitarianism and the American Unitarian Association in the United States....
to the Hollis Professorship of Divinity in 1805. Widely reported in the national press,the founding by the Calvinists was one of the significant events that contributed to the split in the Congregationalist denominations, and to the eventual founding of the American Unitarian Association
American Unitarian Association
The American Unitarian Association was a religious denomination in the United States and Canada, formed by associated Unitarian congregations in 1825. In 1961, it merged with the Universalist Church of America to form the Unitarian Universalist Association.According to Mortimer Rowe, the Secretary...
in 1825. The Unitarians in 1961 joined the Universalists to become the Unitarian Universalist Association
Unitarian Universalist Association
Unitarian Universalist Association , in full the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations in North America, is a liberal religious association of Unitarian Universalist congregations formed by the consolidation in 1961 of the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church of...
.
The new school built a suite of Federal-style buildings at Phillips Academy
Phillips Academy
Phillips Academy is a selective, co-educational independent boarding high school for boarding and day students in grades 9–12, along with a post-graduate year...
in Andover, Massachusetts
Andover, Massachusetts
Andover is a town in Essex County, Massachusetts, United States. It was incorporated in 1646 and as of the 2010 census, the population was 33,201...
, which the school occupied for its first century. (Most of the original seminary campus survives today as part of the historic core of the Phillips Academy campus.)
Before Andover was founded, American Protestant clergymen attended undergraduate college, then learned their profession by studying under a minister. The new seminary was the first to formalize graduate study for clergymen with a resident student body and resident faculty. The program was for three years of study in four subjects: the Bible
Bible
The Bible refers to any one of the collections of the primary religious texts of Judaism and Christianity. There is no common version of the Bible, as the individual books , their contents and their order vary among denominations...
, church history, doctrinal theology and the practical arts of ministry.
In 1908, Harvard Divinity School
Harvard Divinity School
Harvard Divinity School is one of the constituent schools of Harvard University, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in the United States. The School's mission is to train and educate its students either in the academic study of religion, or for the practice of a religious ministry or other public...
and Andover attempted to reconcile, and for a period of 18 years shared Harvard's Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Cambridge is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States, in the Greater Boston area. It was named in honor of the University of Cambridge in England, an important center of the Puritan theology embraced by the town's founders. Cambridge is home to two of the world's most prominent...
campus. The seminary moved its faculty and library to Cambridge, built a large academic-Gothic style facility there, and began to develop plans for a more formal merger with Harvard. However, the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts disallowed the alliance. Although the court decision was later reversed, Andover eventually relocated to the Newton Centre campus of the Newton Theological Institution in 1931.
The original Andover Seminary library remained on the Harvard campus, where, merged with the library collections of the Harvard Divinity School, it is now known as the Andover-Harvard Theological Library.
Harvard later purchased the school's Cambridge real estate, which, known as Andover Hall, now houses most of the Harvard Divinity School. Although the planned merger with Harvard was never completed, the two schools remained loosely affiliated. Andover Newton students and faculty have access to the Harvard College Library system and Andover Newton students can register for classes at any of the university's schools.
Newton
Newton Theological Institution began instruction in 1825 on an 80 acres (32.4 ha) former estate at Newton Centre in Newton, MassachusettsNewton, Massachusetts
Newton is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States bordered to the east by Boston. According to the 2010 U.S. Census, the population of Newton was 85,146, making it the eleventh largest city in the state.-Villages:...
as a graduate seminary formally affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA
American Baptist Churches USA
The American Baptist Churches USA is a Baptist Christian denomination within the United States. The denomination maintains headquarters in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania. The organization is usually considered mainline, although varying theological and mission emphases may be found among its...
. Its founders were Joseph Grafton
Joseph Grafton
Joseph Grafton was a founder of the Newton Theological Institution. For more than forty-eight years he was pastor of the First Baptist Church of Newton, Massachusetts. He was succeeded by Rev. Frederic Augustus Willard.Upon his death, Rev...
, Lucius Bolles
Lucius Bolles
Lucius Bolles, D.D., S.T.D. , sixth child of Rev. David Bolles, was born at Ashford, Connecticut. He was an 1801 graduate of Brown University and a student of theology three years with Dr. Samuel Stillman, of Boston, Massachusetts...
, Daniel Sharp, Jonathan Going, Bela Jacobs, Ebenezer Nelson, Francis Wayland
Francis Wayland
Francis Wayland , American Baptist educator and economist, was born in New York City, New York. He was president of Brown University and pastor of the First Baptist Church in America in Providence, Rhode Island. In Washington, D.C., Wayland Seminary was established in 1867, primarily to educate...
, Henry Jackson, Ensign Lincoln, Jonathan Bacheller, and Nathaniel R. Cobb.
An important early benefactor and long-time treasurer of Newton Theological Institution was Gardner Colby
Gardner Colby
Gardner Colby was a prominent businessman and Christian philanthropist. He is the namesake of Colby College in Maine and the town of Colby, Wisconsin.Colby was born in Bowdoinham, Maine in 1810 and spent part of his childhood in Waterville, Maine...
, Boston industrialist and resident of Newton Centre near the campus. Colby Hall and Colby Chapel on the Andover Newton campus were named in his honor. Colby also contributed to a number of other New England Baptist institutions, including Brown University and Colby College
Colby College
Colby College is a private liberal arts college located on Mayflower Hill in Waterville, Maine. Founded in 1813, it is the 12th-oldest independent liberal arts college in the United States...
in Waterville, Maine
Waterville, Maine
Waterville is a city in Kennebec County, Maine, United States, on the west bank of the Kennebec River. The population was 15,722 at the 2010 census. Home to Colby College and Thomas College, Waterville is the regional commercial, medical and cultural center....
, which was also named in his honor.
Since 1931, the facilities of the Newton Centre campus have expanded many times, especially during a boom in enrollment during the 1950s and '60s. The latest addition is Wilson Chapel, a modern interpretation of the traditional New England meetinghouse, constructed to mark the school's bicentenary in 2007.
Andover-Newton
Andover and Newton formally merged in 1965, creating Andover Newton Theological School. Another important 21st century construction on "the Hill" in Newton Centre was the contemporary campus of Hebrew CollegeHebrew College
Hebrew College is an accredited college of Jewish studies in Newton Centre, near Boston, Massachusetts. Founded in 1921, Hebrew College is committed to Jewish scholarship in a transdenominational academic environment. The president of the college is Rabbi Daniel Lehmann...
, designed by the distinguished architect Moshe Safdie
Moshe Safdie
Moshe Safdie, CC, FAIA is an architect, urban designer, educator, theorist, and author. Born in the city of Haifa, then Palestine and now Israel, he moved with his family to Montreal, Canada, when he was 15 years old.-Career:...
. The two schools collaborate on a number of interfaith programs and their students can cross register for classes.
In 2010, Andover Newton and Meadville Lombard Theological School
Meadville Lombard Theological School
The Meadville Lombard Theological School, located in Chicago, is a Unitarian Universalist seminary.It is a result of a merger in the 1930s between a Unitarian and a Universalist institution...
, a Chicago-based seminary affiliated with the Unitarian Universalist Association
Unitarian Universalist Association
Unitarian Universalist Association , in full the Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations in North America, is a liberal religious association of Unitarian Universalist congregations formed by the consolidation in 1961 of the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church of...
, announced plans to create a "new university-style institution" at the Newton Centre campus, with an interfaith model for theological education. Meadville would sell its campus in Chicago and become the "Unitarian" division of the new institution, with Andover Newton becoming the "Christian" component. The two institutions withdrew from the plan in April 2011, citing issues related to governance and finances.
Academics and student life
Andover Newton was first accredited by the New England Association of Schools and CollegesNew England Association of Schools and Colleges
The New England Association of Schools and Colleges, Inc. is the U.S. regional accreditation association providing educational accreditation for all levels of education, from pre-kindergarten to the doctoral level, in the six-state New England region. It also provides accreditation for some...
in 1978, and grants master's degree
Master's degree
A master's is an academic degree granted to individuals who have undergone study demonstrating a mastery or high-order overview of a specific field of study or area of professional practice...
s as well as a doctor of ministry
Doctor of Ministry
The Doctor of Ministry degree is, according to The Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada , a doctoral level degree oriented toward ministerial leadership often in an area of applied theology, such as missions, evangelism, church leadership, pastoral psychology or the...
. Andover Newton students are also allowed to take classes in any of Harvard University
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, established in 1636 by the Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the oldest institution of higher learning in the United States and the first corporation chartered in the country...
's ten graduate schools due to the prior affiliation of Andover Theological Seminary and Harvard. There were 350 students enrolled in 2007, who represent 35 Christian denominations; United Church of Christ students remain the largest segment of the student body, followed by Unitarian Universalists and Baptists.
The residential hill-top campus just outside the village of Newton Centre resembles that of a classic New England college, with red brick dormitories, a dining hall, and academic buildings around a tree-lined quadrangle. Wilson Chapel, in gray stone, forms a central focus of both the space and of campus activities. There are fine views of the Boston skyline and Great Blue Hill in the distance. The self-contained campus, with easy access to Boston, is the epicenter of student life. The Massachusetts Bible Society and the Boston Theological Institute (BTI) also have offices here, as do parts of Hebrew College.
Notable persons
There have been many notable graduates of Andover Theological Seminary and Newton Theological Institution, as well as Andover Newton Theological School. Collectively, they have had a wide and profound influence on American life and values, extending well beyond church ministry and missionary work into higher education, the creation of the American public school and public library systems, pioneering work with disabled and disadvanaged groups, the abolition of slavery and promotion of the modern civil rights movement, even the creation of the "national hymn," "America."Prior to the American Civil War, when there were few fully developed graduate programs in the United States, the two schools trained some of the nation's most important scholars, linguists, social activists, educational innovators, and college presidents as well as many of its leading Protestant clergy.
Adoniram Judson
Adoniram Judson
Adoniram Judson, Jr. was an American Baptist missionary, who served in Burma for almost forty years. At the age of 25, Adoniram Judson became the first Protestant missionary sent from North America to preach in Burma...
, class of 1810, is one of the earliest notable alumni and among the first U.S. missionaries sent by the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions
The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions was the first American Christian foreign mission agency. It was proposed in 1810 by recent graduates of Williams College and officially chartered in 1812. In 1961 it merged with other societies to form the United Church Board for World...
. He later became a Baptist
Baptist
Baptists comprise a group of Christian denominations and churches that subscribe to a doctrine that baptism should be performed only for professing believers , and that it must be done by immersion...
missionary to Myanmar
Myanmar
Burma , officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar , is a country in Southeast Asia. Burma is bordered by China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest, the Bay of Bengal to the southwest, and the Andaman Sea on the south....
, then known as Burma. Thomas Hopkins Gaullaudet, class of 1814, was the founder of education for the deaf in the United States, established the first American school for the deaf, and was the principal developer developer of what became American Sign Language. Gaulladet University in Washington, DC, was renamed in his honor in 1893. Hiram Bingham and Asa Thurston, class of 1816, were the first missionaries to Hawaii, where they devised an alphabet for written Hawaiian. Francis Wayland entered Andover Theological Seminary in 1816 but was too poor to complete his studies there. He later helped found Newton Theological Institution. Like two later Newton alumni, Wayland was president of Brown University. He held the position for 28 years and is remembered as one of that school's most important early leaders.
David Oliver Allen
David Oliver Allen
David Oliver Allen was an American missionary, born at Barre, Massachusetts.He graduated at Amherst College in 1823, studied at Andover Theological Seminary, and in 1827 went to Bombay, India as a missionary. In 1844 he took charge of the Bombay printing establishment. He wrote tracts in Mahratta,...
, class of 1824, was an American missionary
Missionary
A missionary is a member of a religious group sent into an area to do evangelism or ministries of service, such as education, literacy, social justice, health care and economic development. The word "mission" originates from 1598 when the Jesuits sent members abroad, derived from the Latin...
. Calvin Ellis Stowe, class of 1828 and later a faculty member at Andover, is considered one of the creators of the American public school system. He published widely on issues of public education and established the College of Teachers in Cincinnati. A prominent abolitionist, he was married to Harriett Beecher Stowe, author of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," and was an enthusiastic supporter of her literary career.
Nehemiah Adams
Nehemiah Adams
Reverend Nehemiah Adams was an American clergyman and writer.-Biography:He was born in Salem, Massachusetts, in 1806 to Nehemiah Adams and Mehitabel Torrey Adams. He graduated from Harvard University in 1826, and from Andover Theological Seminary in 1829...
, class of 1829, was a clergyman and author. Bela Bates Edwards
Bela Bates Edwards
Bela Bates Edwards was an American man of letters born at Southampton, Massachusetts, on 4 July 1802. He graduated at Amherst College in 1824, was a tutor there from 1827 to 1828, graduated at Andover Theological Seminary in 1830, and was licensed to preach...
, class of 1830, was editor of American Quarterly Observer, Biblical Repository, and Bibliotheca Sacra
Bibliotheca Sacra
Bibliotheca Sacra is the theological journal published by Dallas Theological Seminary. First published in 1844, it is the oldest theological journal in the United States. It originally was published by Union Theological Seminary in 1843, moved to Andover Theological Seminary in 1844, to Oberlin...
. William Adams
William Adams (minister)
William Adams was a noted clergyman and academic.-Early life:He was born in Colchester, Connecticut in 1807 to John Adams , a 1795 graduate of Yale who was an American educator noted for organizing several hundred Sunday schools, and Elizabeth Ripley, the daughter of Gamaliel Ripley and Judith...
, class of 1830, was one of the founders of the Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York is a preeminent independent graduate school of theology, located in Manhattan between Claremont Avenue and Broadway, 120th to 122nd Streets. The seminary was founded in 1836 under the Presbyterian Church, and is affiliated with nearby Columbia...
and later its president. Caleb Mills
Caleb Mills
Caleb Mills was an American educator and the first faculty member of Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana. He helped to construct the public education system of Indiana. Mills came to Wabash College in 1833, after graduating from Dartmouth College and Andover Seminary, to become the first...
, class of 1833, was the founding president and first faculty member of Wabash College is considered the father of the Indiana
Indiana
Indiana is a US state, admitted to the United States as the 19th on December 11, 1816. It is located in the Midwestern United States and Great Lakes Region. With 6,483,802 residents, the state is ranked 15th in population and 16th in population density. Indiana is ranked 38th in land area and is...
public education system. Samuel Francis Smith
Samuel Francis Smith
Samuel Francis Smith, , Baptist minister, journalist and author, is best known for having written the lyrics to "My Country, 'Tis of Thee", which he entitled America.-Early life:...
, class of 1834, was the Baptist minister who wrote the words to America or My Country, 'Tis of Thee
My Country, 'Tis of Thee
"My Country, 'Tis of Thee", also known as "America", is an American patriotic song, whose lyrics were written by Samuel Francis Smith. The melody derived from Muzio Clementi's Symphony No. 3, and is shared with "God Save the Queen," used by many members of the Commonwealth of Nations...
while still a student on the Andover campus (where his dormitory, still in use at Phillips Academy, is now known as "America House").
George Frederick Magoun
George Frederick Magoun
George Frederick Magoun , a member of the Iowa Band of Congregationalist ministers, was the first president of Iowa College , where he served as college president from 1865 to 1885....
, class of 1847, was co-founder and the first president of Grinnell College
Grinnell College
Grinnell College is a private liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, U.S. known for its strong tradition of social activism. It was founded in 1846, when a group of pioneer New England Congregationalists established the Trustees of Iowa College....
George Park Fisher
George Park Fisher
George Park Fisher was an American theologian and historian who was noted as a teacher and a prolific writer. He was born in Wrentham, Massachusetts, graduated from Brown University in 1847, studied theology at Yale Divinity School and in Germany, and graduated from the Andover Theological...
, class of 1851, was a church historian and president of the American Historical Association
American Historical Association
The American Historical Association is the oldest and largest society of historians and professors of history in the United States. Founded in 1884, the association promotes historical studies, the teaching of history, and the preservation of and access to historical materials...
. Charles Augustus Aiken
Charles Augustus Aiken
-Biography:He was born in Manchester, Vermont in 1827 to John Aiken and Harriet Adams Aiken. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1846, and went on to Andover Theological Seminary, where he graduated in 1853. He married Sarah Noyes on October 17, 1854, and was ordained a pastor of the...
, class of 1853, was a noted professor of Latin at Dartmouth, the sixth president of Union College
Union College
Union College is a private, non-denominational liberal arts college located in Schenectady, New York, United States. Founded in 1795, it was the first institution of higher learning chartered by the New York State Board of Regents. In the 19th century, it became the "Mother of Fraternities", as...
, and later taught at Princeton Theological Seminary. William Jewett Tucker
William Jewett Tucker
The Rev. William Jewett Tucker served as the 9th President of Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, United States, from 1893 to 1909.- Dartmouth presidency :...
, class of 1866 and later an Andover faculty member, was described at his death as "the great president" of Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College
Dartmouth College is a private, Ivy League university in Hanover, New Hampshire, United States. The institution comprises a liberal arts college, Dartmouth Medical School, Thayer School of Engineering, and the Tuck School of Business, as well as 19 graduate programs in the arts and sciences...
who transformed a small, rural, regional school into a major Ivy League university. The Tucker Foundation at Dartmouth was founded to carry on his legacy on campus. George Trumbull Ladd
George Trumbull Ladd
George Trumbull Ladd was an American philosopher, educator and psychologist.-Early life and ancestors:...
, class of 1869, was an American philosopher, educator, and psychologist. William Scott Ament
William Scott Ament
William Scott Ament was a missionary to China for the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions from 1877, and was known as the "Father of Christian Endeavor in China." Ament became prominent as a result of his heroism during the Boxer Uprising and controversial...
, class of 1877, was a controversial Congregational missionary to China criticised by Mark Twain
Mark Twain
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Claude Black
Claude Black
Claude William Black, Jr. was an American Baptist minister and political figure. He was born the son of local Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters vice president Claude, Sr...
, class of 1943, was pastor of Mt. Zion First Baptist Church
Mt. Zion First Baptist Church
Mt. Zion First Baptist Church is an historic African American church located at 333 Martin Luther King Drive in San Antonio, Texas.Founded in 1871 by former slaves, the church has since provided ministerial services to thousands and played a major role in the civil rights movement of the city.In...
, a civil rights icon, and politician. Albert Edward Winship
Albert Edward Winship
Albert Edward Winship was a pioneering American educator and educational journalist, born at West Bridgewater, Mass. He attended Andover Theological Seminary in 1875. He was a pastor from 1876 to 1883...
is known for his work as an educator, and Joseph Hardy Neesima
Joseph Hardy Neesima
was a Japanese educator of the Meiji era, the founder of Doshisha University and Doshisha Women's College of Liberal Arts.Neesima was born in Edo , the son of a retainer of the Itakura clan of Annaka...
did not graduate, but was the founder and president of Doshisha University
Doshisha University
, or is a prestigious private university in Kyoto, Japan. The university has approximately 27,000 students on three campuses, in faculties of theology, letters, law, commerce, economics, policy, and engineering...
in Japan
Japan
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. Ferdinand "Frank" Fuentes is the founding executive director of the Latino Policy Institute at Roger Williams University.
Lucius Walker
Lucius Walker
The Reverend Lucius Walker was an American Baptist minister who served as executive director of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization in the 1960s and was a persistent advocate for ending the United States embargo against Cuba...
, a 1958 graduate, was a Baptist minister best known for his opposition to the United States embargo against Cuba
United States embargo against Cuba
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Among the important theologians, clergy, and scholars who have taught at the school are alumni Calvin Ellis Stowe and William Jewett Tucker, the distinguished theologian and church historian George Foot Moore, the poet, critic and New Testament scholar Amos Niven Wilder (brother of the writer Thornton Wilder), theologian Harvey Cox, author of "The Secular City," scholar of Christian social ethics, international peace activist, and vice president of the National Council of Churches Jane Cary Peck and community organizer and internationally known missiologist, Orlando E. Costas.
Current faculty includes alumnus S. Mark Heim, Sarah Drummond, and Carole R. Fontaine.
External links
- Official website
- History of the Andover-Harvard Library
- The Phillips Library at the Peabody Essex Museum The Library maintains a collection of papers of the Andover Theological School (mansucript number E 6).