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Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary

Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary

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The Burke Library is one of the largest theological libraries in North America, with holdings of over 700,000 items, including extensive special collections. The mission of the Burke Library is to identify, acquire, organize, provide access to, interpret, and preserve for the future information in the field of theology and contextually related areas of study.
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Missionary Research Library collection on missions to Jews, 1889 -- 1927

0.75 linear feet
This collection contains documents, articles, and other materials compiled and transcribed by the Missionary Research Library between 1949 and 1952 to help explain the historical relationship between Jews and Christians, and potentially serve as a reference work of and resources for missions to Jews.
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Missionary Research Library collection on ecumenical and world-wide mission work, 1792 -- 1990

14 linear feet
This collection contains material related to ecumenical and world-wide mission work and committees and conferences, education, churches and religion, and missionaries, as well as photographs and maps and subject and topic files, including some on geographic locations, as well as the earliest records in the collection (1792) which pertain to Presbyterian Moderators of the General Assembly. Formats include reports, minutes, papers, photographs, negatives and maps.
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John T. McNeill papers, circa 1904 -- 2000

17.25 linear feet
John Thomas McNeill was a theological historian and Calvin scholar, Professor of History of European Christianity at the University of Chicago, and later Professor of Church History and Auburn Professor Emeritus at Union Theological Seminary. The collection contains material related to McNeill's career, including teaching materials, research notes, sermons, correspondence, and an unpublished autobiography.
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Research, circa 1900 -- 1979 Box 25

Movement (undated); Dominicans (undated; Historical method (undated); "Reform measures" (undated); "The

Beginning of the Reformation in Hungary (undated); Reformation in Italy (undated); Early notes on Reading (undated); Misc. notes (undated); Calvin's theology (undated); "The Early Quakers" (undated); Notes on Huss (undated; Various writings (including on Wittenberg) (undated); "Scandinavian lands" (undated); "Changing Frontiers" (undated); Guizot (undated); Monasteries (?) (undated); Eastern Orthodox Movement (undated); Dominicans (undated; Historical method (undated); "Reform measures" (undated); "The Reformation's Debt to the Renaissance" (undated); "Denominations of Dissenters" (undated); Latin Advocates, Bernardino (undated); "Puritanism to 1553" (undated); "Migration and Conversion" (undated); Rise of the Papacy (undated); Roger Williams (undated); Notes on Desiderius Erasmus (undated); Misc. notes (undated); Wessel Gansfort (undated); Benedictine to Cluny (undated); Phillips Brooks (undated); "Bucer" (undated); "Arminius" (undated)

  1. Series 3: Research, circa 1904 -- 2000
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New York Sabbath Committee minutes, 1857 -- 1878

0.25 linear feet
The New York Sabbath Committee, formed in 1857, sought to remind citizens of the importance of the Sabbath Day. The collection contains one bound volume containing the minutes of the New York Sabbath Committee from April of 1857 through 1878, as well as an index and a list of donors and their addresses.
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James Stanley Durkee sermons, 1897 -- 1947

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James Stanley Durkee was a Baptist and Congregationalist minister who served in Maine, Massachusetts, and New York. He was the last white president of Howard University (1918-1926) and presided over Plymouth Church of the Pilgrims in Brooklyn, New York, from 1927-1941. The collection contains handwritten and typed sermons, sermon outlines, notes, extracts, and newspaper clippings, arranged in chronological order.
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Sermons 601-680, 1912 -- 1914 Box 8

, "Soul's Barometer," 21 Sept 1913 8 31 Sermon 631: Gen 32:26, "Measuring Our Advance," 28 Sept 1913 8 32

8 1 Sermon 601: Ecc 3:11, "Original Bent of the Soul," 10 Nov 1912 8 2 Sermon 602: Eph 5:14, "Torpid or Sensitive," 17 March 1912 8 3 Sermon 603: 1 Cor 19:13, "Play Ball," 17 Nov 1912 8 4 Sermon 604: John 1:14, "Liberating Word," 24 Nov 1912 8 5 Sermon 605: Ps 33:12, "America's Thanksgiving," 24 Nov 1912 8 6 Sermon 606: 1 Kings 1:35, "Crown Solomon," 1 Dec 1912 8 7 Sermon 607: "No Saloons: Will 57 Saloons Make Brockton Happier," 1 Dec 1912 8 8 Sermon 608: John 3:16, "Battle of Death and Life," 15 Dec 1912 8 9 Sermon 609: Luke 2:20, "Reproducing the Xmas Spirit," 22 Dec 1912 8 10 Sermon 610: Luke 2:16, "Joy Note," 22 Dec 1912 8 11 Sermon 611: Ps 65:11, "1913 – What it Holds!" 29 Dec 1912 8 12 Sermon 612: John 4:11, "Well Rope," 5 Jan 1913 8 13 Sermon 613: John 8:31, "New Emancipation," re Emancipation Proclamation, 5 Jan 1913 8 14 Sermon 614: Mark 5:7, "Can I Avoid Jesus Christ?" 12 Jan 1913 8 15 Sermon 615: Ps 102:26-7, "Growing Young," 19 Jan 1913 8 16 Sermon 616: Mark 14:15, "Furnished and Ready," 26 Jan 1913 8 17 Sermon 617: Luke 24:25-29, "Book of Genesis," 26 Jan 1913 8 18 Sermon 618: Acts 16:30, "My Part in My Salvation," 9 Feb 1913 8 19 Sermon 619: Exodus, "Exodus – The Going out From the Old into the New," 23 Feb 1913 8 20 Sermon 620: John 11:44, "Loose Him and Let Him Go," 2 March 1913 8 21 Sermon 621: Luke 2:32, "He Comes – The Light Bringer," 9 March 1913 8 22 Sermon 622: Matt 21:10, "He Comes – In Triumph," 16 March 1913 8 23 Sermon 623: John 20:14-16, "He Comes – The Death Destroyer," 23 March 1913 8 24 Sermon 624: Rom 8:6, "New Remedies for Old Diseases," 27 April 1913 8 25 Sermon 625: 1 Cor 1:26, "Average Man," 4 May 1913 8 26 Sermon 626: 2 Tim 4:7, "Review," 11 May 1913 8 27 Sermon 627: John 6:38, "Power of the Selected Life," 8 June 1913 8 28 Sermon Notes 628: "Vacation Impressions," 7 Sept 1913 8 29 Sermon 629: Ps 118:17, "Life Beyond Our Sight," 14 Sept 1913 8 30 Sermon 630: Heb 11:7, "Soul's Barometer," 21 Sept 1913 8 31 Sermon 631: Gen 32:26, "Measuring Our Advance," 28 Sept 1913 8 32 Sermon 632: Ps 127:1, "Our City's Needs," 28 Sept 1913 8 33 Sermon 633: Ps 107:30, "Looking for Land," 5 Oct 1913 8 34 Sermon 634: Ps 31:3, "My Gibraltar," 12 Oct 1913 8 35 Sermon 635: 2 Peter 3:18, "Things Outgrown," 19 Oct 1913 8 36 Sermon 636: Matt 16:18, "Cleanse the Inside," 19 Oct 1913 8 37 Sermon 637: Ecc 3:11, "Leave Places for the Flowers," 26 Oct 1913 8 38 Sermon 638: Mark 8:36, "Unavailing Effort," 26 Oct 1913 8 39 Sermon 639: Is 49:2, "Cleft of the Rock," 2 Nov 1913 8 40 Sermon Notes 640: "Bible – Its Old and New Interpretation," 24 Oct 1913 8 41 Sermon 641: 16:2, "Sunrise in the Soul," 9 Nov 1913 8 42 Sermon 642: Acts 17:27, "Reach for God," 23 Nov 1913 8 43 Sermon 643: Ps 80:17, "His Hand on my Head," 30 Nov 1913 8 44 Sermon 644: Ez 21:21, "Quo Vadis?" 7 Dec 1913 8 45 Sermon 645: Ps 40:2, "From Gloom to Glory, "14 Dec 1913 8 46 Sermon 646: Matt 2:9, "Start from the Star," 20 Dec 1913 8 47 Sermon 647: Prov 4:32, "Heart of Beauty," 28 Dec 1913 8 48 Sermon 648: Ex 3:3, "Under the Right Light," 4 Jan 1914 8 49 Sermon 649: John 13:15, "Copying the Masters," 18 Jan 1914 8 50 Sermon 650: Phil 3:20-21, "From Mud to Marble," 25 Jan 1914 8 51 Sermon 651: Gal 6:14, "Brighter Cross," 1 Feb 1914 8 52 Sermon 652: John 1:5, "Light of the World," 1 Feb 1914 8 53 Sermon 653: Gen 32:28, "Appeal to the Higher," 8 Feb 1914 8 54 Sermon Notes 654: Matt 10:16, "New Crusade," 8 Feb 1914 8 55 Sermon 655: Rev 20:11-12, "Great White Throne," 22 Feb 1914 8 56 Sermon 656: Is 40:29-31, "Connect With the Power," 1 March 1914 8 57 Sermon Notes 657: "True Warrior," 1 March 1914 8 58 Sermon 658: Matt 17:1-2, "Mount of Transfiguration," 8 March1914 8 59 Sermon 659: John 6:9, "What are they Among so Many?" 15 March 1914 8 60 Sermon 660: Ps 87:6, "Consecrated by a Life," 22 March 1914 8 61 Sermon 661: John 4:42, "Once a Name, Now a Love," 22 March 1914 8 62 Sermon 662: Mark 11:9, "Long Plan," 5 April 1914 8 63 Sermon 663: Matt 28:6, "Not Here; Risen," 12 April [1914] 8 64 Sermon 664: 1 Cor 13:12," Seeing By Reflection," 26 April 1914 8 65 Sermon 665: Matt 5:21-22, "Ist Verboten," 3 May 1914 8 66 Sermon 666: Matt 18:11, "Reclaimed," 17 May 1914 8 67 Sermon 667: Gal 2:20, "Life for Life," 24 May 1914 8 68 Sermon 668: Mal 3:17, "These are my Jewels," 31 May 1914 8 69 Sermon 669: Eph 6:11, "Old Armor and New," 7 June 1914 8 70 Sermon 670: Dan 8:16, "Ad Pretium: The Real Value," re World War I, revised for use in World War II, 10 June 1914 8 71 Sermon 671: 1 Cor 9:27, "Under Control," 14 June 1914 8 72 Sermon 672: 2 Cor 4:7, "My Westminster," 21 June 1914 8 73 Sermon 673: Prov 4:23, "Heart of a Nation," 28 June 1914 8 74 Sermon 674: Gen 34:21, "Traffic in the Soul," 5 July 1914 8 75 Sermon 675: Ps 96:6, "Crags and Heather," 12 July 1914 8 76 Sermon 676: Ecc 12:5, "Homeward Bound," 19 July 1914 8 77 Sermon 677: Ps 144:1, "Is War Justifiable?" 13 Sept 1914 8 78 Sermon 678: John 1:14, "Life in Words," 20 Sept 1914 8 79 Sermon 679: John 1:22, "Faithful Witness," 27 Sept 1914 8 80 Sermon 680: John 1:41, "So Great A Find!" 4 Oct 1914

  1. James Stanley Durkee sermons, 1897 -- 1947