Union Theological Seminary (New York)

Union Theological Seminary, New York is a world renowned center of liberal Christianity and neo-orthodoxy. Founded in 1836 as an independent seminary by the Presbyterian Church, UTS is the birthplace of movements such as Black Liberation Theology, Womanist Theology and Mujerista Theology. The school has a association with Ecumenism and offers joint degree programs with Colombia University and New York Theological Seminary. It is home to the Burke Theological Library.

Dr. Joseph Hough, UTS' immediate past president, is an important Christian Democratic Socialist

Social Gospel Movement and liberal politics

Charles Butler, (1802-97) Founder UTS

William Adams Brown, PhD, D.D.

Personalities:
Norman Thomas, (1884-1968) Presbyterian minister, Pacifist and secretary of Fellowship of Reconciliation, magna cum laude graduate of Princeton University in 1905, editor World Tomorrow Magazine (1918), Christian socialist and six time presidential candidate of the Socialist Party of America (SPA), Co-director of the League for Industrial Democracy, one of the founders of the National Civil Liberties Bureau (precurser to American Civil Liberties Union, ACLU), Mayor of NY, 1925...(click on name for more on Norman Thomas)   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norman_Thomas http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union_Theological_Seminary_in_the_City_of_New_York

NEWS    Vatican action against U.S. Jesuit is not definitive, order says

By Cindy Wooden Catholic News Service Jan 5th 2009

ROME (CNS) -- The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith has asked U.S. Jesuit Father Roger Haight not to teach Christology at any university -- Catholic or not, said the Rome-based spokesman of the Jesuits.

"He can continue to teach, but not systematic theology connected with Christology," said Father Giuseppe Bellucci, spokesman for the Jesuits.

"The prohibition against teaching is not a condemnation and is not definitive; a committee of Jesuits, in fact, is studying the position of Father Roger, who is willing to collaborate to clarify his positions," Father Bellucci told Catholic News Service Jan. 5.

In 2005 the doctrinal congregation published a notification that Father Haight could no longer teach as a Catholic theologian because of "serious doctrinal errors" in his 1999 book, "Jesus Symbol of God."

While discussions with his Jesuit superiors and between the Jesuits and the doctrinal congregation continued, Father Haight has been teaching at Union Theological Seminary, a nondenominational graduate school in New York.

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0900029.htm