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Hartford Seminary. Hartford International University is centered on two academic units: the Hartford Institute for Religion Research [10] and the Duncan Black Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations, the country’s oldest center for such study, having opened in 1973. [11]
Born in Spindale, Roberts earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Johnson C. Smith University, a Bachelor of Divinity degree from Shaw University, and a Master of Sacred Theology degree from Hartford Seminary. [1] In 1957, he became the first African American to earn a PhD from New College, University of Edinburgh, in philosophical theology. [2]
William John Samarin (February 7, 1926 - January 16, 2020) [1] was an American-born linguist and academic who was Professor at the Hartford Seminary and the University of Toronto. He is best known for his work on the language of religion, on the two central African languages Sango and Gbeya, on pidginization, and on ideophones in African ...
When Walter returned to the US, he studied at Hartford Seminary, was ordained a Congregationalist minister, and was an assistant minister in Asylum Hill, Connecticut, for three years. [1] Walter married Marguerite B. Darlington [3] on November 21, 1910, in a Brooklyn, New York, service officiated by James Henry Darlington. [2]
In 2015, he signed the official Memorandum of Understanding between Zaytuna College and Hartford Seminary in Connecticut. [19] He is one of the signatories [ 20 ] of A Common Word Between Us and You , an open letter by Islamic scholars to Christian leaders, calling for peace and understanding.
A fifth-generation ordained minister in the Congregational Christian Churches (later merging to become the United Church of Christ), he served as a professor at Hartford Seminary from 1950 to 1966. He was a visiting professor at Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand for the last three years of his tenure at Hartford.
Bolsinger, an associate professor of leadership formation at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena, California, said cultural shifts mean church leaders can no longer rely on old ways of thinking.
Gleason began studying at Hartford Seminary in 1938 and received his PhD in 1946. [1] His 1961 text "Introduction to Descriptive Linguistics" (with an accompanying workbook) [2] was described in the journal Language as a suitable update to Leonard Bloomfield's well-known textbook Language. [3] Gleason retired in 1982. [4]