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Robert T. Handy papers, circa 1930 -- 1986 3 linear feet

Handy, Robert T.
Robert T. Handy (1918-2009) was a Union Theological Seminary Professor of Church History and Academic Dean and Adjunct Columbia University Religion Department faculty member, and published a history of UTS in 1987. The collection contains a typescript of Handy's History of Union Theological Seminary, as well as correspondence and administrative materials of organizations that Handy was involved in: the Fellowship of Socialist Christians (FSC) and Christian Action (CA).
  1. Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary

Series 1: History of Union Theological Seminary, 1986 0.5 linear feet

This series contains a typescript of Handy's History of Union Theological Seminary. The copy appears to be one from late in the editing process. Handy's tenure at Union as a member of both the faculty and the administration gave him particular insight into the critical issues affecting the Seminary during his time. Handy also illuminated the events of other eras of Union's past, such as the Briggs and McGiffert trials around the turn of the twentieth century. Handy's exhaustive research in the UTS archives provided the basis for a history that built on the work of earlier scholars of the Seminary's history, including the volumes by former UTS president Henry Sloane Coffin and faculty members G.L. Prentiss and Charles R. Gillett.

  1. Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary
  2. Robert T. Handy papers, circa 1930 -- 1986

Series 2: Organizations, circa 1930 -- 1963 2.5 linear feet

This series contains correspondence and administrative materials of organizations that Handy was involved in: the Fellowship of Socialist Christians (FSC) and Christian Action (CA). One of the outside interests of the UTS faculty was the Fellowship of Socialist Christians (FSC), the brainchild of Handy's UTS colleague Reinhold Niebuhr, who formed the organization in the early 1930's. The FSC would later evolve into Christian Action, with Robert Handy serving as Secretary.

  1. Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary
  2. Robert T. Handy papers, circa 1930 -- 1986

Subseries 2A: Fellowship of Socialist Christians (FSC), circa 1930 -- 1951 1 linear feet

This subseries contains correspondence from the organization, as well as some administrative documents such as minutes and reports, and several files on the Frontier Fellowship (which seems to have been either a later incarnation of the FSC, or an offshoot). These FSC materials were not directly produced by Handy; the FSC files were passed on to the Christian Action administration and to Handy as Secretary of Christian Action.

  1. Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary
  2. Robert T. Handy papers, circa 1930 -- 1986
  3. Series 2: Organizations, circa 1930 -- 1963

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