Talk:Princeton Theological Seminary

Largest Library?
The Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary (NYC) also seems to be the largest theological library aside from the Vatican. Their website claims "holdings of over 700,000 items" (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/libraries.html). Someone should look into this.- — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.194.27.182 (talk) 12:04, 11 May 2007 (UTC)

Archibald Alexander?
The book Who Was Who in America: Historical Volume 1607-1896, lists the name of the first professor as Adam Alexander. Any idea why there is the discrepancy? Badbilltucker 21:40, 21 August 2006 (UTC)
 * Must be a mistake. The three main professors near the beginning of Princeton Seminary were Archibald Alexander, Charles Hodge, and Samuel Miller. --Whiteknox 16:42, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

University affiliation?
There are some interesting comments/questions on the Princeton University mainpage and discussion page that are related to PTS. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Vandy (talk • contribs) 01:01, September 26, 2005

I would hold that edits and reversions by TheoAlum are done by someone with a vested interested in PTS (TheoAlum == Theological seminary Alum?) and should be rejected. 02:29, 31 January 2015 (UTC) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nasukaren (talk • contribs)

The first paragraph should state unequivocally that PTS is unaffiliated with Princeton University. Nasukaren (talk) 22:40, 12 June 2014 (UTC)

I've linked to a secondary source from Princeton University showing it is indeed correct to state the seminary was founded "under of auspices of" the college of New Jersey--the college of NJ originally recommended the location and formed a plan of agreement that included institutional support and an agreement to never compete (ie not holding a professorship in theology). Any other affiliation concerns are better suited to the background. Please also document sources in the future. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 174.238.224.181 (talk) 06:03, 5 August 2014 (UTC)

I take it PTS is affiliated with Princeton University? This fact is never explicitly stated and should, if true as it presumably is, be articulated in the opening paragraph of the article. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.206.149.227 (talk • contribs) 16:49, June 13, 2006

I disagree. Just as the university is not expected to "unequivocally" state its relationship to the seminary in its opening paragraph, nor should the seminary be expected to do so. The seminary stands on its own reputation in the theological community, no matter the confusion among the laity. This information is better placed in the background. — Preceding unsigned comment added by TheoAlum (talk • contribs) 05:35, 4 August 2014 (UTC)

REGARDING AFFILIATION:

It bears reminding that the name "Princeton" does not belong exclusively to the University. In 1896, the College of N.J. was renamed Princeton University after the town, not the other way around. Princeton Day School, Princeton High School: these are all properly "Princeton."

Whether rightly or wrongly, the primary intent in the beginning (1756) was to provide an educated ministry. All the classes were held in Nassau Hall. As with Yale and Harvard, the school became more secular which caused growing friction among the faculty. In 1812 the school divided in place. Which is the "real" Princeton? They both are. The University, be it granted, grew larger and better "known" than the Seminary...after all,it had more than one subject of study and a football team! Also the Seminary has no undergraduate college; all the students have undergraduate degrees from schools elsewhere (yes...even Princeton University). PTS remains one of the pre-eminent graduate-professional schools for ministry and a renowned graduate school of religion, largely Christianity. (The religion department at the University has a broader scope.) As is common with the earliest educational institutions in this country, the endowments and libraries of the University and Seminary are extremely large. Sept. 14, 2006; johnharnold2003@yahoo.com.- — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.114.157.2 (talk) 13:42, 14 September 2006 (UTC)


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REGARDING THE GRE

The GRE is required of Ph.D. applicants, but not for any of the master's programs. The same is true at Harvard's Divinity School which only requires the GRE for their Th.D. program. Yale Divinity School has no doctoral programs and the GRE is not required. It is required, however, for the Ph.D. in religious students at the "University" graduate school of Arts and Sciences. Oct. 24, 2006; johnharnold2003@yahoo.com- — Preceding unsigned comment added by 71.114.157.2 (talk) 13:32, 24 October 2006 (UTC)

Chair of Systematic Theology
The Chair of Systematic Theology had several very notable figures in theology, namely Charles Hodge, A. A. Hodge, and B. B. Warfield (one professor described Warfield to me as on par with Augustine and Calvin). Should a separate page be created describing this chair, or should a subsection be added to the "History" section? I must admit that I am kind of confused as to the differences between the chair of systematic theology and the principalship; did these three figures in particular hold the chair as well as being principal at the same time, or was being the principal equivalent to holding the chair? --Whiteknox 16:49, 22 December 2006 (UTC)

Empty sections
Just in case nobody noticed, the following sections are empty:


 * Abraham Kuyper Center for Public Theology


 * Princeton Dead Sea Scrolls Project


 * Institute for Youth Ministry

--Whiteknox 17:24, 22 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Journal: Theology Today

Faculty
I don't believe, though I'm not certain, that Warren Carter and Harold Washington taught at PTS (at least, not on the regular faculty); both, I think got their degrees there.- — Preceding unsigned comment added by AKMAdam (talk • contribs) 22:26, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

Should George Hunsinger be included in the list of Notable Faculty members? He is Hazel Thompson McCord Professor of Systematic Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. He is a noted Barth scholar. From 1997 to 2001, he was director of the Center for Barth Studies at PTS. And in early 2006 he founded the National Religious Campaign Against Torture, now a leading antitorture group in the USA among religious organizations and NGOs. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.126.24.113 (talk) 01:47, 8 January 2008 (UTC)

The Center of Theological Inquiry...
...is currently involved in a curruption scandal involving a grant from NASA. 

Relevant here? --Hob Gadling (talk) 07:47, 31 March 2017 (UTC)

WikiProject Theology
In addition to the WikiProjects listed above, surely this article would be of interest to WikiProject Theology. Vorbee (talk) 19:41, 10 June 2020 (UTC)

Abraham Kuyper Prize
It's a bit surprising to me that the information available about the Abraham Kupyer Prize is so thin, especially considering that numerous notable people have won it and delivered lectures in the lecture series (apparently including Marilynne Robinson, Ian Buruma, Timothy Keller, and David Brooks), and it seems to have resulted indirectly in one or more published books. I have spent some time looking for outside sources to flesh it out or create its own page, but they are hard to find. If anyone is intereted, I've chronicled some of the difficulties I encountered here:. Carhutt (talk) 21:19, 12 August 2020 (UTC)

The Otto Piper link.
Otto Alfred Piper (1891-1982) was a German American New Testament Scholar and educator who came to the United States after being expelled from the University of Muenster by Hitler. He taught at Princeton Seminary. There is no Wikipedia article about his life and work. Here are some websites that document details of his life: https://prabook.com/web/otto_alfred.piper/678174 https://www.geni.com/people/Otto-Piper-Prof-Dr-theol/6000000043100223521

Otto Piper (1841–1921) was a German architectural historian. This person has a Wikipedia article. Unfortunately, the hypertext for the name of the Princeton Bible scholar takes readers to the article about this gentleman.

I do not know how to make the necessary corrections but I wanted to let the community know so that someone could fix the error. Jeffcpgh1 (talk) 04:47, 23 July 2023 (UTC)