Charles Gilchrist Adams became the first Nickerson Professor of the Practice of Ethics and Ministry at 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...

 in 2007.

Biography

Adams served as the Senior Pastor at Hartford Memorial Baptist Church in Detroit, Michigan

Michigan

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, United States

United States

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, since 1969.

Adams earned a bachelors degree from the University of Michigan

University of Michigan

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 and a Master of Divinity

Master of Divinity

In the academic study of theology, the Master of Divinity is the first professional degree of the pastoral profession in North America...

 from Harvard Divinity School

Harvard Divinity School

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. He obtained a Rockefeller Fellowship of Harvard University

Harvard University

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, a Doctoral Fellowship of 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...

 and the Merrill Theological Fellowship of Harvard University.

In 1991 and 1992, Ebony selected Adams as one of the 100 "Most Influential Black Americans".

In 1993, Ebony

Ebony (magazine)

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magazine listed Adams in their list of "The 15 Greatest Black Preachers".

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