Named Professorships
The following is a listing of the named professorships and their fields of designation.
* Emeritus
Abu Hamid Mohammed al-Ghazzali Professor of Islamic Studies
Abu Hamid Mohammed al-Ghazzali (1058-1111) was a medieval Persian Islamic scholar and Sufi mystic. He worked as a professor in Baghdad (in present-day Iraq) at a college he founded. In his later life, he lived as a Sufi ascetic, wrote the book The Revivification of the Religious Sciences as well as his autobiography, and trained students as mystics.
Abul Hasan Al-Nadwi Professor of Islamic Studies
Abul Hasan Al-Nadwi (1913-1999) was a leading Indian Muslim scholar and public intellectual. He was heavily involved in scholarship, authoring many books on the Indian Muslim community, Islam and history. He also served as rector at an institution of higher learning, the Nadwat al-Ulama in Lucknow, India.
Aisha Bint Abu Bakr Professor of Women’s Studies
Aisha Bint Abu Bakr (611-678) was a wife of the Muslim prophet, Muhammad. She has become a revered figure within Sunni tradition and is thought of as a source of words and deeds by the Prophet Muhammad.
Alexander Schmemann Professor of Eastern Christianity
Alexander Schmemann (1921-1983) was a leading ecumenical leader of his time and served as Dean of St. Vladimir’s Orthodox Theological Seminary. Born in Estonia, he was educated in France and later taught in the U.S. at Columbia University, New York University, Union Theological Seminary and General Theological Seminary. Schmemann helped to establish the Orthodox Church in America and held the title of “Protopresbyter,” the highest honor bestowed upon a married Orthodox priest.
Benjamin E. Mays Professor of Scripture and Applied Ministries
Benjamin Elijah Mays (1894-1984) was an important figure in Christian ministry and American education. Born in South Carolina, he served as a pastor before moving into teaching and, later, into a position as dean of the School of Religion at Howard University. He served as president of Morehouse College for more than two decades and as president of the Atlanta Board of Education for over 10 years.
Bernard Lonergan Professor of Theology
Bernard Lonergan (1904-1984) was a philosopher, theologian and economist from Quebec, Canada. Educated in Catholic schools, he professed as a Jesuit and was later ordained to the priesthood in 1936. His doctoral work focused on Thomas Aquinas and during his time as a professor at the University of Toronto, he wrote Insight: A Study of Human Understanding. Lonergan lectured throughout his life on theology, philosophy and economics, and focused on the importance of the clarification of methods in all disciplines.
Bishop James Anthony Walsh Professor of Asian Christian Studies and Musicology
James Anthony Walsh (1867-1936) co-founded the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, known as the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers. He was ordained in 1892 and served as a curate, as Diocesan Director of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith and founded the magazine The Field Aar. Walsh was elected to the episcopacy and named Titular Bishop of Siene in 1933. He served as Superior General of the Maryknoll Fathers and Brothers from 1911 until his death.
Bishop John Tinsley Professor of Anglican Theology
Ernest John Tinsley (1919-1992) was the Bishop of Bristol, England, from 1976 to 1985. Educated at Durham University, he was ordained in 1943 and was a Lecturer in Theology at University College, Hull. From 1962 to 1975 he was Professor of Theology at the University of Leeds, a time during which he was made Bishop of Bristol until retirement in 1985. Tinsley was the official representative of the Archbishop of Canterbury to the Graduate Theological Foundation and a member of the GTF faculty from 1982 until his death.
Charles Wesley Professor of Church Music*
Charles Wesley (1707-1788) was an Anglican priest, co-founder of Methodism with his brother, John, and is perhaps best remembered as a prolific writer of hymns. Born in Lincolnshire, England, he was educated in London and at Oxford University. During his lifetime, Charles Wesley published the words of over 6,000 hymns and wrote the words for another 2,000, many of which are included in the Methodist hymn book.
Dean R. Hoge Professor of Pastoral Planning and Church Management
Dean R. Hoge (1937-2008) was a professor of sociology at the Catholic University of America and director of its Life Cycle Institute for more than thirty years. He wrote more than 25 books about religious life in America. Although a Presbyterian, his research focused mainly on Catholicism. He served as President of the Religious Research Association (1979-1980) and as President of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion (2007-2008).
Dorothy Day Professor of Spirituality
Dorothy Day (1897-1980) was a social activist and founder of the Catholic Worker movement. She worked as a journalist for The Call, Commonweal and other newspapers for many years before she moved into nursing later in life. Her work focused on social action, including women’s suffrage, pacifism and civil rights. Day even turned her home into a place of aid for those who needed it, a decision that grew into a national movement of Catholic Worker houses.
E. Franklin Frazier Professor of African American Studies
E. Franklin Frazier (1894-1962) was a sociologist who is recognized as a leading scholar on the black experience in America and the black churches. A professor at Fisk University, Howard University, Morehouse College, and director of the Atlanta School of Social Work, his most notable work on the black church is The Negro Church in America.
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz Professor of American Muslim History and Culture
El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (aka Malcolm X) (1925-1965) was an African-American Muslim minister and human rights activist from the U.S. His father died (killed by white supremacists, it was rumored) when he was young, and at least one of his uncles was lynched. As a teenager, he was placed in a mental hospital, followed by a series of foster homes. He later went to prison for breaking and entering; while there, he became a member of the Nation of Islam and later, its leader. In 1964, his disillusionment with the group’s head, Elijah Muhammad, led him to leave. He soon founded Muslim Mosque, Inc. He began his Hajj by traveling to Mecca, but also traveled through Africa and Europe, returning to the U.S. where he founded the Organization of Afro-American Unity. In 1965, he was assassinated by three members of the Nation of Islam.
Evelyn Underhill Professor of Historical Theology
Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941) was a renowned English writer and mystic. She studied at King’s College for Women in London and began writing during her adolescence, publishing her first work, Mysticism, in 1902. When she embraced the Christian faith, she spent much of her time providing spiritual direction and service to the poor. During World War I, she worked for the British military before becoming an established Christian pacifist. Underhill delivered the 1921 Upton lectures on religion at Manchester College, Oxford University, and continued to write throughout her life.
Francis Joseph Cardinal Spellman Professor of Catholic Theology
Francis Joseph Spellman (1889-1967) was an influential American leader in the Catholic Church and a member of the College of Cardinals. Educated in New York and Rome, he received his ordination as a priest in 1916 and soon after became assistant to the papal secretariat of state. Appointed auxiliary bishop of Boston, he was made archbishop of New York by Pope Pius XII in 1939 and elevated in 1946 to the College of Cardinals.
Francis Power Cobbe Professor of Animal Theology
Frances Power Cobbe (4 December 1822 – 5 April 1904) was an Irish writer, social reformer, anti-vivisection activist and leading women’s suffrage campaigner. She founded a number of animal advocacy groups, including the National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) in 1875 and the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) in 1898, and was a member of the executive council of the London National Society for Women’s Suffrage. She was the author of a number of books and essays, including The Intuitive Theory of Morals (1855), On the Pursuits of Women (1863), Cities of the Past (1864), Criminals, Idiots, Women and Minors (1869), Darwinism in Morals (1872) and Scientific Spirit of the Age (1888).
François-Xavier Durrwell, C.Ss.R., Professor of Theology
François-Xavier Durrwell (1912-2005) was a prominent figure in the Redemptorist order and a prolific writer. He studied in France and Switzerland, professing as a Redemptorist in 1931. Ordained in 1936, he studied at the Gregorian in Rome and later served as Professor of Scripture in the Redemptorist House of Studies (Luxembourg) and as Superior Provincial of the Province of Strasbourg. In 1996, Durrwell received a doctorate honoris causa from the Accademia Alfonsiana (Rome).
George V. Florovsky Professor of Eastern Orthodox and Ecumenical Theology
Georges Vasilievich Florovsky (August 23, 1893 – August 11, 1979) was a prominent 20th century Orthodox Christian priest, theologian, and writer, active in the ecumenical movement. His writing is known for its clear, profound style, covering subjects on nearly every aspect of Church life. His early life was spent in Russia, but he moved to New York City in 1949 to take a position as Dean of St. Vladimir’s Seminary. Florovsky’s oversight of the development of the theological curriculum led to the Board of Regents of the University of the State of New York granting the Seminary an Absolute Charter in 1953. In 1955 Florovsky was asked by his synod overseers to “lay down the deanship.” 1 He thereafter taught at Harvard Divinity School (1956-1964), teaching patristics and Russian religious thought, and later at Princeton (1964-1972), teaching Slavic languages and literatures. He died in 1979.
Gerald May Professor of Spiritual Direction and Counseling
Gerald May (1940–2005) was an American psychiatrist and spiritual director whose public service, private practice and ministry met at the intersection of spirituality and psychology. He earned degrees from Ohio Wesleyan University and Wayne State University. As a therapist, he worked in psychiatric hospitals, often with veterans and prisoners, bringing the spiritual dimension, including spiritual practices and contemplation, into counseling sessions. As a spiritual director, he served as a senior fellow in contemplative theology and psychology for the Shalem Institute for Spiritual Formation in Bethesda, MD., supervising its spiritual direction training program. He is the author of many books and articles that blend contemplation and psychology, including Care of Mind, Care of Spirit and Addiction and Grace. Born in Hillsdale, MI, he was the half-brother of existential philosopher and psychologist Rollo May.
Gerhard von Rad Professor of Biblical Studies
Gerhard von Rad (1901-1971) was a German Lutheran pastor and scholar who helped to refocus attention on the Old Testament following the World Wars. Educated at the University of Erlangen and the University of Tübingen, he worked as a Lutheran curate in Bavaria and taught at several universities. Von Rad was Professor of Old Testament at the Ruprecht Karl University of Heidelberg for many years until his death.
Gershom Scholem Professor of Jewish Spirituality
Gershom Scholem (1987-1982) was a major scholar of Jewish mysticism who trained three generations of scholars of Kabbala. Born in Berlin, he was part of the Weimar-era German-Jewish intellectuals who supported Zionism, and he immigrated to Palestine in 1923. Scholem was a prolific writer, publishing over 40 volumes and nearly 700 articles.
Gratian Professor of Canon Law
Gratian, who taught at the University of Bologna in the twelfth century, is the “Father of Canon Law.” Gratian is also “the Father of the Scientific Study of Law.” His book, Decretum Gratiani (“Gratian’s Decree”), has the first system to resolve discrepancies built up in the legal system during the previous thousand years. Dante placed Gratian among the Doctors of the Church in the Paradiso. The Decretum Gratiani was the standard textbook for students of canon law until the publication of the 1917 Code of Canon Law.
Henry Bergh Professor of Animal Ethics
Henry Bergh (1813-1888) founded the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) in 1866 and helped to found the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children in 1875. Bergh was appointed by President Abraham Lincoln to the American Legation at the court of Russian Czar Alexander II where his awareness of animal abuse developed. He later arrested and prosecuted animal abusers in New York and helped to strengthen American laws against animal abuse.
Imam Warith Deen Muhammad Chair of African American Muslim Studies
Warith Deen Muhammad (1933-2008) was a prominent leader within the African American Muslim community. Leader of the Nation of Islam following his father’s (Elijah Mohammed) death, he led vast numbers of Nation of Islam members to traditional Sunni Islam by the late 1970’s. He pursued interfaith cooperation with other religious communities, and worked with U.S. and international leaders, including President Jimmy Carter and President Bill Clinton.
James Ashbrook Professor of Pastoral Psychology*
James Barbour Ashbrook (1925-1993) was Professor of Psychology and Religion at the Graduate Theological Foundation from 1984 until his retirement in 1993. Educated at Denison University and the Colgate Rochester Theological Seminary, he taught at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary in Chicago for many years. Ashbrook was a widely published scholar and a leading authority on neuropsychology and religious behavior.
John Henry Cardinal Newman Professor of Theology and Ecclesial Mediation
John Henry Newman (1801-1890) was a philosopher and major figure within the Church of England and the Roman Catholic Church. Educated at Oxford, he was ordained as an Anglican deacon in 1824 and by the early 1930’s, emerged as a leader of the Tractarians, contributing work to the Tracts for the Times collection of theological publications by members of the Oxford Movement. He later left the Church of England and was received into the Catholic Church, being ordained a priest in 1846. Newman spent several years as rector of the Catholic University of Ireland (present-day University College, Dublin) and in 1878, was elevated to Cardinal-Deacon of San Giorgio al Velabro (Rome).
John Macquarrie Professor of Anglican Theology
John Macquarrie (1919-2007) was a Scottish theologian, philosopher, and the author of many books, including the internationally acclaimed Principles of Christian Theology (1966). After serving in the British Army during World War II, he was ordained in the Church of Scotland. In 1962, he was appointed Professor of Systematic Theology at Union Theological Seminary in New York City during which time he became a member of the Episcopal Church. In 1965, he was ordained in the Episcopal Church USA. Macquarrie was appointed in 1970 as Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity in the University of Oxford and Canon Residentiary of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, where he served until 1986. From 1996 until his death he was the Martin Heidegger Professor of Philosophical Theology at the Graduate Theological Foundation from which he received the Doctor of Divinity honoris causa.
John Wesley Professor of Homiletics and Biblical Studies
John Wesley (1703-1791) was an Anglican priest and co-founder of Methodism with his brother, Charles. After completing his studies at Oxford, Wesley became involved in a men’s group founded by his brother with a focus on spiritual growth; they referred to themselves as the “Methodists.” In 1738, he began to devote his life to evangelism and established Methodist societies throughout England beginning in 1739. Wesley married late in life and continued to travel and serve as an Anglican priest until his death.
Joseph Fabry Professor of Pastoral Logotherapy
Joseph Fabry (1909-1999) received his doctor of jurisprudence degree from the University of Vienna. He retired in 1972 to devote his life to his second career as the founder, executive director and president of the Institute of Logotherapy and editor of the International Forum for Logotherapy. With his wife, Judith, Mr. Fabry translated Victor Frankl’s autobiography, Reflections. For this work and the promotion of Logotherapy he was awarded the Golden Cross of Honor by the Republic of Austria.
Karen Horney Professor of Counseling and Psychology
Karen Horney (1885-1952) was born in Hamburg Germany, and earned her medical degree at the University of Berlin in 1913. After studying psychiatry at Berlin-Lankwitz, Germany, she taught at the Berlin Psychiatric Institute (1918-1932), then moved to the U.S. where she was associate director of the Psychoanalytic Institute of Chicago. She was also a member of the teaching staff of the New York Psychoanalytic Institute (1934-1941) and went on to become one of the founders of the Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis and the American Institute for Psychoanalysis. Although trained in traditional psychoanalytic techniques and theory, Dr. Horney believed that cultural and social factors influence early personality development as well as issues that arise throughout life, and emphasized addressing current problems prior to delving into a patient’s past. Her theory of feminine psychology paved the way for modern female psychoanalytic personality theory.
Karl Mannheim Professor of the History and Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Karl Mannheim (1893-1947) was a Jewish Hungarian-born sociologist and founder of the sociology of knowledge. He studied at the University of Budapest where he earned a doctorate in philosophy. In 1930, he became professor of sociology at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main. After fleeing Nazi Germany, he served as a professor at the London School of Economics until his death a year later at the age of 53.
Karl Rahner Professor of Catholic Theology
Karl Rahner (1904-1984) was an influential Jesuit theologian. Born in Germany, he joined the Jesuit order in 1922 and was ordained in 1921. He studied under theologian Martin Heidegger at the University of Freiburg in Germany, after which he pursued his doctorate at the University of Innsbruck. Rahner edited various theological encyclopedias and served as an official theological consultant to the Second Vatican Council.
Katie Ferguson Professor of Religious Education
Catherine Ferguson (nee Williams) (1774-1854) is widely recognized as the founder of the Sunday School movement in the United States of America. She was born into slavery in New York City and bought her freedom around the age of 16. Although illiterate, Ferguson began teaching the catechism, Bible verses and hymns to neighborhood children in her home; she raised many of her orphaned students when she couldn’t find them homes. A home for unwed mothers bearing Ferguson’s name was opened in New York in 1920.
Martin Heidegger Professor of Philosophical Theology*
Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) is known as one of the 20th century’s most important philosophers. His main interest was ontology, or the study of being. Born in Germany and prepared to enter the priesthood, he attended the University of Freiburg where he studied theology, eventually leaving the seminary. Heidegger completed his doctorate in 1913 and was conscripted to serve in the German military during World War I after which he taught at the University of Marburg for several years. He wrote throughout his life; his work Being and Time (1927) is considered his most influential.
Mignon Eisenberg Professor of Logotherapy
Mignon Eisenberg (1923 – 2001) pioneer and scholar of Viktor E. Frankl’s Logotherapy, a meaning-centered approach to psychotherapy, was born in Breslau, Germany. Her family lived in Vienna, Austria, until 1934, when they emigrated to Israel. She completed a Law degree at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 1954, she emigrated with her family to Chicago, USA. In 1974, she met Viktor Frankl while traveling in Israel. This meeting had a lasting impact on her career. In 1980, she completed her PhD Dissertation “The Logotherapeutic Intergenerational Encounter Group: A Phenomenological Approach” and became Diplomate in Logotherapy through the Viktor Frankl Institute of Logotherapy, USA. She taught the logotherapy curriculum in Chicago and Israel. She is the author of several publications on logotherapy including the “Life Review and Life Preview” method. She founded the Israel Institute of Logotherapy. Her students founded the Logotherapy Association of Israel.
Paul Tillich Professor of Theology and Culture
Paul Tillich (1886-1965) was one of the most influential Protestant theologians of the 20th century. In 1912, he was ordained as a Lutheran minister and later served as a chaplain in the Germany army during World War I. After the war, he taught at a number of universities before moving to the U.S. with his family where he would publish many works, including the three-volume Systematic Theology. Tillich taught at Union Theological Seminary in New York, Harvard Divinity School, and at the University of Chicago from 1962 until his death.
Petro Cardinal Gasparri Professor of Canon Law
Petro Cardinal Gasparri, who taught at the Institute Catholique in Paris, is correctly called “Father of Canon Law.” He compiled 2,000 years of Church law into a single and systematic book of 2,414 clear precepts. His 1917 Code of Canon Law was approved by Pope Benedict XV as the first definitively approved legal text in the history of Catholicism. Gasparri also played a significant role in the codification of Eastern Catholic canon law. His crowning achievement was the successful negotiation of the Lateran Treaty (1929) to establish Vatican City State.
President Jimmy Carter Professor of Mediation and Pastoral Care
James Earl Carter (1924-present) is the 39th President of the United States of America and recipient of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize. A graduate of the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, he spent several years in service before returning to Georgia to enter state politics. In 1970, he was elected Governor of Georgia and launched a Presidential campaign in 1974. In 1982, he founded The Carter Center to address issues of public policy both within and outside of the U.S. Carter is a prolific writer on issues of international policy and serves as University Distinguished Professor at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia.
Rabbi A. Stanley Dreyfus Professor of Jewish Studies
Rabbi A. Stanley Dreyfus, Ph.D. (1921 – 2008) was professor of Jewish Liturgy at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. Born in Youngstown, Ohio, he had a distinguished career as a pulpit rabbi before being named Director of Placement for the Central Conference of American Rabbis. As the Chairman of the CCAR Liturgy Committee from 1975 to 1979, he was instrumental in the publication of a series of new prayer books . Throughout his career, he taught aspiring rabbis, imbuing them with an understanding of Jewish prayer and a love of Jewish scholarship.
Raymond E. Brown Professor of Biblical Studies
Raymond E. Brown (1928-1998) was a major Biblical scholar and a member of the Sulpician Fathers. He earned the S.T.B. at St. Mary’s Seminary and University and the Ph.D. at Johns Hopkins University. Brown became one of the first American Catholic scholars to use the historical-critical method to study the Bible and served as the Auburn Distinguished Professor of Biblical Studies at the Protestant Union Theological Seminary for nearly 20 years.
Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Theology
Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) was a theologian and pastor. Ordained in the Evangelical and Reformed tradition – now a part of the United Church of Christ, Niebuhr was highly active in working for social justice and ecumenical dialogue. Niebuhr taught at Union Theological Seminary in New York. Niebuhr’s preaching, ethics and teaching, described as “Christian Realism” continue to be highly relevant to Christian thought, political theory and ethics in the twenty first century. Niebuhr’s most notable works include The Nature and Destiny of Man and Moral Man and Immoral Society.
Robert C. Leslie Professor of Pastoral Logotherapy
Robert C. Leslie (1917-2006) was a psychologist, chaplain and professor. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II and later earned the Ph.D. in the psychology of religion prior to becoming ordained in the United Methodist Church. Dr. Leslie taught at the Pacific School of Religion (1954-1982) and at the Graduate Theological Union (1962-1982). He spent 1960-1961 in Vienna, Austria, studying under Viktor E. Frankl, founder of logotherapy. He was later appointed as curator for the Frankl Library at the Graduate Theological Union. He is the author of several books, including Jesus and Logotherapy (also known as Jesus as Counselor: Man’s Search for a Meaningful Faith).
St. Thomas More Professor of Canon Law and Pastoral Care
Thomas More (1478-1535) was councilor to King Henry VIII and is recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church and as a Reformation martyr by the Church of England. He attended Oxford University but later left to become a lawyer, then a Member of Parliament in 1504. He authored the controversial book Utopia (1516) about a politically and socially ideal nation and served on the King’s Privy Council, being knighted in 1521. Refusing to recognize the King as the head of the Church of England after the King split with the Catholic Church, More was tried for treason and executed.
Shaykh Muhammad Nazim Adil al-Haqqani Professor of Islamic Studies
Muhammad Nazi Adil al-Haqqani (1922-present) is a Turkish Cypriot Sufi Muslim who leads the Naqshbandi-Haqqani Order of Sufi Islam. He earned a degree in chemical engineering at Istanbul University, but was separately tutored in Islamic theology and Arabic. He pursued the study of spirituality and later established himself in Damascus, Syria. Widely traveled, Nazim has worked with Muslim communities around the world and, in 2000, spoke on religion and spirituality at the United Nations.
Sir Julian Huxley Distinguished Research Professor
Julian Sorell Huxley (1887-1975) was an English evolutionary biologist, humanist and internationalist. A Fellow of the Royal Society, he was educated and later taught at Oxford University. Huxley was a proponent of natural selection, and was a leading figure in the mid-20th century evolutionary synthesis. He was Secretary of the Zoological Society of London (1935-1942), the first Director of UNESCO, and a founding member of the World Wildlife Fund
Teilhard de Chardin Professor of Christian Spirituality*
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) was an influential French philosopher, Jesuit priest, paleontologist and geologist. He studied in France and the U.K. and was ordained a priest in 1911. He worked for the National Museum of Natural History in Paris and later served in World War I where he developed his philosophical thought. In the early 1920’s, Teilhard began teaching at the Catholic Institute of Paris while continuing to write on philosophy during geological expeditions. Teilhard produced such works as Christianity and Evolution, Human Energy, Science and Christ, The Divine Milieu, and The Phenomenon of Man.
Viktor Frankl Professor of Psychotherapy and Spirituality
Viktor Emil Frankl (26 March 1905 – 2 September 1997) was an Austrian neurologist, psychiatrist, philosopher, author, and Holocaust survivor. He was the founder of logotherapy, a school of psychotherapy which describes a search for a life meaning as the central human motivational force. Logotherapy is part of existential and humanistic psychology theories. Logotherapy was recognized as the third school of Viennese Psychotherapy. The first school by Sigmund Freud, and the second school by Alfred Adler. Frankl published 39 books. The autobiographical Man’s Search for Meaning, a best-selling book, is based on his experiences in various Nazi concentration camps.
W. Edwards Deming Professor of Educational Reform
William Edwards Deming (1900-1993) was a scholar, statistician and creator of the “System of Profound Knowledge” and the “14 Points for Management.” He was a proponent of group-based teaching and management without performance reviews. After earning his Ph.D. from Yale University, he worked at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Census Bureau, and taught business administration at New York University and Columbia University.
Walter Rauschenbusch Professor of Pastoral Studies
Walter Rauschenbusch (1861-1918) was a Baptist minister and instrumental figure in the Social Gospel movement in America. Born to German parents in New York State, he was raised in an orthodox Protestant tradition and attended Rochester Theological Seminary. Rauschenbusch served as a pastor in New York City where he witnessed severe social inequality, leading him to combine his faith and his interest in social action. He later wrote the book Christianity and the Social Crisis (1897).
William James Professor of Psychology and Mediation
William James (1842-1910) is considered the father of modern psychology. He was educated at Harvard where he took his medical degree. James later taught at Harvard in philosophical pragmatism and developed the field of psychology with his monumental work, The Principles of Psychology, considered the classic text in the field.
William B. Oglesby, Jr., Professor of Pastoral Theology
William Barr Oglesby, Jr. (1916-1994) was Professor of Counseling Psychology at the GTF from 1988 to 1993. An ordained Presbyterian minister, he took the Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and taught for many years at the Union Presbyterian Seminary in Virginia. Oglesby was an international leader in the field of pastoral care and counseling.