Paul Edwin Spiecker papers, 1933 -- 1938

Collection context

Creator:
Spiecker, Paul Edwin, 1908-2000
Abstract:
Reverend Paul Edwin Spiecker was a Union Theological Seminary student and Methodist minister, and Pastor of Trinity Church in Stony Point, NY. The collection contains manuscript and typescript notes for term papers and lectures at Union Theological Seminary, as well as booklets from the NJ Temperance Society, The Scientific Temperance Federation Bulletin from 1938, and a booklet on "Alcohol Problems Visualized" published by the National Forum.
Extent:
2.75 linear feet (2.75 linear feet; 6 boxes)
Language:
English .
Scope and content:

This collection contains manuscript and typescript notes for term papers and lectures at Union Theological Seminary. Included are lectures on the Old Testament by Julius A. Bewer, the New Testament by Ernest F. Scott, systematic theology by John Baillie and Paul Tillich, philosophy of religion by Henry Pitney Van Dusen and Mary Ely Lyman, history of religions and church history by Cyril Richardson, practical theology by Henry Sloane Coffin, and religious education and psychology by Harrison S. Elliott. Also included in this collection are booklets from the NJ Temperance Society, The Scientific Temperance Federation Bulletin from 1938, and a booklet on "Alcohol Problems Visualized" published by the National Forum.

Biographical / historical:

Paul Edwin Spiecker was born in Philadelphia, PA in 1908. He graduated from the Pennington School in New Jersey in 1929 and Boston University in 1933 prior to attending the Union Theological Seminary. The Reverend Paul Edwin Spiecker attended UTS from 1933-1936, and went on to work as Pastor of Trinity Church in Stony Point, NY. Reverend Spiecker died in 2000.

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Preferred citation:

Item description, UTS 1: Paul Edwin Spiecker papers, 1933-1938, series #, box #, folder #, The Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University in the City of New York.

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