Behaving Badly in Church
In the 18th century, decorum in church was the of the utmost importance. Critical pamphlets from both the priests and parishioners decried poor behavior.
Seminary Life: Dining at GTS
Dining at General didn’t always take place in “one of New York’s most beautiful interior spaces” [1]. When GTS first opened in New York, for $2 a week, students could eat in a basement dining room in the East Building. At the time, “there was little…feeling that fellowship in a refectory was an aspect of…
Using the Library in More Ways Than One
Happy New Year and welcome back! With the new semester starting, we’ve had students stopping by, determined to get ahead in their classes and assignments. While setting goals for your semester, why not add “using all the resources the library has to offer” to your list? No matter what classes you’re taking or where your…
The Night After Christmas
Everyone’s read “Twas the Night Before Christmas” by GTS’s own Clement Clarke Moore, but have you ever heard of “The Night After Christmas”? The 1823 publication of “A Visit from St. Nicholas” in the Troy Sentinel had readers “buzzing, laughing, marveling, and rhapsodizing” and solidified a typical “American” Christmas.[1] Because of its popularity and reach,…
Professor Clark and Bishop Coxe at the Keller Library
At the Keller Library, we enjoy hosting visiting researchers (of whom we see many in the summers), and we had a glorious couple of weeks in June hosting the esteemed Elizabeth A. Clark in our Special Collections Reading Room. Dr. Clark is the John Carlisle Kilgo Professor of Religion and Professor of History at Duke…
International Council of Christians and Jews
A couple of weeks ago, we shared the Ancient Near East Today newsletter, and today we have for you the International Council of Christians and Jews newsletter. This is a newsletter that describes the work of the ICCJ, the “the umbrella organisation of 38 national Jewish-Christian dialogue organizations world-wide.” The ICCJ Newsletter is another great…
Ancient Near East Today
We are so fortunate here at the General Theological Seminary to have such marvelous professors engaged in research–today I think of our beloved Professor Robert Owens, who’s been on sabbatical this spring, finishing an important book and contributing to the editing of another, both under contract for publication with Brill in Leiden and Gorgias Press.…
Interning at the Keller Library: GaYoung Kwon’s Experience
Our intern this semester was GaYoung Kwon, a senior from CUNY’s Baruch College. This was a bit of a change for us, because heretofore, we’ve always had library school students as interns, and what a great experience it was, both for her and for us! GaYoung wrote about her internship for one of her papers–these…
The Matriculation Book
Your reference librarian had the opportunity to do some research into the Matriculation Book and ceremony last summer. Here’s some of that information, which sets out the history of the oath and the Matriculation ceremony itself. Original oath. In The Story of General Theological Seminary, Powel Mills Dawley notes that “Students were matriculated at a…
The Way of Wisdom
“So our goal at seminary is not to produce priests who have pre-made solutions to problems and who are solely focused on fixing things. What we are here to do is to provide wise, resourceful people who know how it feels to struggle to live on the Way of Wisdom and who know how to…
Interning at the Keller Library: Megan Izzo’s experience
As my time at the Christoph Keller Jr. Library draws to a close, I am able to reflect on how much I have learned about the field of academic librarianship. The best thing about this internship was the willingness of Library Director Drew Kadel, Technical Services Librarian Patrick Cates and Reference Librarian Mary Robison to…
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