Robert Tobias papers, circa 1960 -- 1961

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Robert Tobias papers, circa 1960 -- 1961

This series is open for research.

1.25 linear feet; 1.25 linear feet; 3 boxes

This series contains Robert Tobias' files pertaining to the potential founding of a World Association of Theological Schools (although the proposal gained a lot of support, the association never came to fruition). The files contain correspondence with different schools, draftts, as well as catalogues and course descriptions of the seminaries which Tobias contacted.

This series is arranged by region, and alphabetically.



Box 1 Folder 1 General Circular and Mailing List, Initial Inquiry, 1960


Box 1 Folder 2 New Delhi meeting reports and minutes, 1961


Box 1 Folder 3 Summary of Seminary Responses, circa 1961


Box 1 Folder 4 Seminaries, United States and Canada: A, circa 1961

Andover Newton Theological School, Newton Centre, Massachusetts Asbury Theological Seminary, Wilmore, Kentucky Augsburg College Theological Seminary, Minneapolis, Minnesota Augustana Theological Seminary, Rock Island, Illinois The Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Austin, Texas


Box 1 Folder 5 Seminaries, United States and Canada: B, circa 1961

Bangor Theological Seminary, Bangor, Maine Berkeley Baptist Divinity School, Berkeley, California Berkeley Divinity School, New Haven, Connecticut Bethany Biblical Seminary, Chicago, Illinois Bethel College and Seminary


Box 1 Folder 6 Seminaries, United States and Canada: B, circa 1961

Bexley Hall Divinity School, Kenyon College, Gambier, Ohio The Biblical Seminary in New York, New York, New York Bloomfield College and Seminary, Bloomfield, NJ


Box 1 Folder 7 Seminaries, United States and Canada: B-C, circa 1961

Brite College of the Bible, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, Texas California Baptist Theological Seminary, Covina, California Calvin Theological Seminary, Grand Rapids, Michigan Candler School of Theology, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia Carver School of Missions and Social Work, Louisville, Kentucky Central Baptist Theological Seminary, Kansas City, Kansas


Box 1 Folder 8 Seminaries, United States and Canada: C, circa 1961

Central Lutheran Theological Seminary, Freemont, Nebraska Chicago Lutheran Theological Seminary, Maywood, Illinois The Chicago Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, Indiana The Church Divinity School of the Pacific, Berkeley, California Colgate Rochester Divinity School, Rochester, New York The College of the Bible, Lexington, Kentucky


Box 1 Folder 9 Seminaries, United States and Canada: C-D, circa 1961

Columbia Theological Seminary, Decatur, Georgia Concordia Seminary Lutheran, St. Louis, Missouri Crane Theological School, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts Crozer Theological Seminary, Chester, Pennsylvania Cumberland Presbyterian Theological Seminary, McKenzie, Tennessee Dallas Theological Seminary, Dallas, Texas


Box 1 Folder 10 Seminaries, United States and Canada: D, circa 1961

The Divinity School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania The Divinity School, Drake University, Des Moines, Iowa The Divinity School, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina The Divinity School, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois The Divinity School, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee


Box 1 Folder 11 Seminaries, United States and Canada: D-E, circa 1961

The Divinity School at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut The Eastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Eden Theological Seminary, Webster Grove, Missouri Emmanuel College, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Episcopal Theological School, Cambridge, Massachusetts The Episcopal Theological Seminary of the Southwest, Austin, Texas Erskine Theological Seminary, Due West, South Carolina


Box 1 Folder 12 Seminaries, United States and Canada: E-G, circa 1961

Evangelical Theological Seminary, Naperville, Illinois Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California Garrett Graduate School of Theology, Evanston, Illinois The General Theological Seminary, New York, New York



Box 2 Folder 1 Seminaries, United States and Canada: G-H, circa 1961

Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary, Mill Valley, California Gordon Divinity School, Beverly Farms, Massachusetts Goshen College Biblical Seminary, Goshen, Indiana The Graduate School of Theology, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio The Graduate Seminary, Phillips University, Enid, Oklahoma Hamma Divinity School, Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio


Box 2 Folder 2 Seminaries, United States and Canada: H-K, circa 1961

The Hartford Seminary Foundation, Hartford, Connecticut Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts Huron College, London, Ontario, Canada The Iliff School of Theology, The South University, Denver, Colorado Interdenominational Theological Center, Atlanta, Georgia Knox College, Toronto, Ontario, Canada


Box 2 Folder 3 Seminaries, United States and Canada: L, circa 1961

Lancaster Theological Seminary, Lancaster, Pennsylvania Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky Luther Theological Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota Lutheran Theological Seminary, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania


Box 2 Folder 4 Seminaries, United States and Canada: L-M, circa 1961

Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Lutheran Theological Southern Seminary, Columbia, South Carolina McCormick Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois McGill University, Faculty of Divinity, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Meadville Theological School, Chicago, Illinois Mennonite Biblical Seminary, Elkhart, Indiana


Box 2 Folder 5 Seminaries, United States and Canada: M-N, circa 1961

Mission House Theological Seminary, Plymouth, Wisconsin Missouri School of Religion, Columbia, Missouri Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania Nashotah House Theological Seminary, Nashotah, Wisconsin Nazarene Theological Seminary, Kansas City, Missouri


Box 2 Folder 6 Seminaries, United States and Canada: N, circa 1961

New Brunswick Theological Seminary, New Brunswick, New Jersey New Church Theological School, Cambridge, Massachusetts New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminaries, New Orleans, Louisiana North American Baptist Seminary, Sioux Falls, South Dakota


Box 2 Folder 7 Seminaries, United States and Canada: N-P, circa 1961

North American Theological Seminary, Jacksonville, Texas North Park College and Theological Seminary, Chicago, Illinois Northwestern Lutheran Theological Seminary, Minneapolis, Minnesota Pacific School of Religion, Berkeley Louisiana Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, Berkeley, California Payne Theological Seminary, Wilberforce, Ohio


Box 2 Folder 8 Seminaries, United States and Canada: P-Q, circa 1961

Perkins School of Theology, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas Pittsburgh Theological Seminary, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania The Presbyterian College, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey The Protestant Episcopal Theological Seminary, Alexandria, Virginia Queen's Theological College, Kingston, Ontario, Canada


Box 2 Folder 9 Seminaries, United States and Canada: S, circa 1961

St. Johns College, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada Saint Paul School of Theology, Methodist, Kansas City, Missouri St. Stephen's College, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada San Francisco Theological Seminary, San Anselmo, California School of Religion, Howard University, Washington, District of Columbia School of Religion, Virginia Union University, Richmond, Virginia


Box 2 Folder 10 Seminaries, United States and Canada: S, circa 1961

School of Theology, Alfred University, Alfred, New York The School of Theology, Anderson College, Anderson, Indiana School of Theology, Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts The School of Theology, University of the South, Swansee, Tennessee Seabury- Western Theological Seminary, Evanston, Illinois Seventh - day Adventist Theological Seminary, Andrews University, Berrien Springs, Michigan


Box 2 Folder 11 Seminaries, United States and Canada: S, circa 1961

Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, Agency of Southern Baptist Convention, Wake Forest, North Carolina The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, Louisville, Kentucky Southern California School of Theology, Claremont, California Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas


Box 2 Folder 12 Seminaries, United States and Canada: S-T, circa 1961

Starr King School for the Ministry, Berkeley, California The Theological School, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey Theological School, St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York The Theological Seminary, University of Dubuque, Dubuque, Iowa Trinity College, Toronto, Ontario, Canada



Box 3 Folder 1 Seminaries, United States and Canada: U, circa 1961

United College, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada United Theological Seminary, Dayton, Ohio Union Theological Seminary, New York, New York Union Theological Seminary, Richmond, Virginia United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities, Minneapolis, Minnesota


Box 3 Folder 2 Seminaries, United States and Canada: W, circa 1961

Wartburg Theological Seminary, American Lutheran Church, Dubuque, Iowa Wesley Theological Seminary of the Methodist Church, Washington, District of Columbia Western Theological Seminary of the Reformed Church in America, Holland, Michigan Wycliffe College, Toronto, Ontario, Canada


Box 3 Folder 3 United States Seminaries Address List, circa 1961


Box 3 Folder 4 Van Dusen's Appeal for Support, circa 1961


Box 3 Folder 5 Seminaries, International: Overseas Appeal, circa 1961


Box 3 Folder 6 Seminaries, International: Australia and New Zealand, circa 1961


Box 3 Folder 7 Seminaries, International: India, circa 1961


Box 3 Folder 8 Seminaries, International: Southeast Asia, circa 1961


Box 3 Folder 9 Seminaries, International: South America, circa 1961


Box 3 Folder 10 Seminaries, International: West Africa, circa 1961


Box 3 Folder 11 Seminaries, International: Great Britain, circa 1961


Box 3 Folder 12 Seminaries, International: Scandinavia, circa 1961


Box 3 Folder 13 Seminaries, International: Netherlands, Brussels, circa 1961


Box 3 Folder 14 Seminaries, International: Germany and Austria, circa 1961


Box 3 Folder 15 Seminaries, International: Wagner and his list, The Fund for Theological Education, circa 1961


Box 3 Folder 16 Letters to seminaries abroad, circa 1961


Box 3 Folder 17 Key to codes on folders and filing systems, circa 1961