Paul Ramsey papers, 1934-1984 and undated.

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Paul Ramsey papers, 1934-1984 and undated.

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Correspondence, memoranda, book reviews, typescripts, reprints, drafts of books and articles, clippings, lecture notes and outlines, course and teaching materials, writings of Ramsey and others, news releases, theses and dissertations, and cassette tapes. The collection centers on the teaching and writing career of Ramsey, principally while a professor in the Department of Religion at Princeton University. These primarily professional papers relate to his fields of interest: theology, philosophy, and the humanities. In particular, Ramsey wrote and taught about Christian and medical ethics, fetal research, abortion, in vitro fertilization, marriage, and sexual ethics. The large Correspondence Series contains letters of prominent theologians. Among the correspondents are the American Medical Association, Daniel Callahan, Van Austin Harvey, the Institute of Society, Ethics and the Life Sciences. Cont. Ernest W. Lefever, Richard A. McCormick, Abraham John Muste, the National Council of the Churches of Christ, the National Council on Religion in Higher Education, H. Richard Niebuhr, Reinhold Niebuhr, Liston Pope, Quentin L. Quade, Warren T. Reich, Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Sargent Shriver, John Edwin Smith, and Richard Preston Unsworth.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6907721

Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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National Council of the Churches of Christ

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American medical association

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Reich, Warren T.

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Unsworth, Richard Preston, 1927-

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Shriver, Sargent, 1915-2011

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Harvey, Van Austin

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Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University since 1978, Harvey trained at Yale Divinity School and taught at the University of Pennsylvania before coming to Stanford. From the description of Religious studies at Stanford: an historical sketch, 1998. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 122384790 From the description of Van Austin Harvey papers, 1952-2007. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754865936 ...

Niebuhr, H. Richard (Helmut Richard), 1894-1962

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Helmut Richard Niebuhr (1894-1962), a leading twentieth-century American Protestant theologian and churchman, is known for his contributions to Christian ethics, for his social analysis of American denominationalism, his interpretation of American religious history, study of American theological education, and authorship of books and essays advancing "theocentric" theology. The younger brother of theologian Reinhold Niebuhr, Helmut was born in Missouri, and was educated at Elmhurst College, Eden...

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Shriver, Eunice Kennedy

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Smith, John Edwin

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Ramsey, Paul

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Educator, Christian ethicist, and author; b. 1913. From the description of Papers, 1934-1988 and undated. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 86148077 From the description of Paul Ramsey papers, 1934-1984 and undated. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 16447866 ...

Quade, Quentin L.

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Lefever, Ernest W. 1919-....

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American political scientist; president, Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1976-1989. From the description of Ernest W. Lefever papers, 1933-2007. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754870028 ...

Niebuhr, Reinhold, 1892-1971

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Correspondence to Lewis Mumford from Reinhold Niebuhr and his wife, Ursula Niebuhr. From the description of Letters, 1935-1982, n.d., to Lewis Mumford. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155873776 Theologian, philosopher, and author. From the description of Papers of Reinhold Niebuhr, 1907-1994 (bulk 1930-1990). (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 71063622 Theologian. From the description of Reminiscences of Reinhold Niebuhr...

Institute of society, ethics, and the life sciences

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McCormick, Richard A., 1922-2000

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Bioethicist. Born October 3, 1922, in Toledo, Ohio, McCormick was an expert on biomedical ethics and Catholic moral theology, especially in the areas of reproductive technology, genetics, the right to die, and health care at Catholic hosptials. His writings on these and other subjects gained him an international reputation. McCormick entered the Society of Jesus in 1940 and was ordained in 1953. He received bachelor of arts and master of arts degrees from Loyola University Chicago in 1945 and 19...

Callahan, Daniel, 1930-....

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Muste, A. J. (Abraham John), 1885-1967

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Clergyman, pacifist. From the description of Reminiscences of Abraham John Muste : oral history, 1954. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 309741542 From the description of Reminiscences of Abraham John Muste : oral history, 1965. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122681124 A.J. Muste (1885-1967). Muste's involvement as a labor organizer began in 1919. When he led strikes in the textile mills of Lawrenc...

Princeton University. Dept. of Religion.

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Pope, Liston, 1909-

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