Harlan Stelmach collection, 1970-1988.

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Harlan Stelmach collection, 1970-1988.

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Collection contains planning, task, and office files from Harlan Stelmach, a Ph.D. student at the Graduate Theological Union, 1970-77. He was involved in several groups which reflected his interests, including Christian Socialism, Latin America, advocacy for the marginalized, and radical theological education. As a student at the GTU, he served as Area IV (Christian Ethics) Student Coordinator where he conducted an on-going colloquium. He was a member of the collective known as the Community for Religious Research and Education in the early 1970s. The collective published Radical religion : a quarterly journal of critical opinion, and participated in such groups as the North American Council on Latin America (NACLA), the American Christians Toward Socialism (ACTS), and the Church and Society Network (CSN). In the 1980s, he served as director of the Center for Ethics and Social Policy at the Graduate Theological Union and with such organizations as the Northern California Ecumenical Council. The collection includes correspondence concerning Norman K. Gottwald.

6 boxes (4 linear feet).

Graduate Theological Union, Flora Lamson Hewlett Library

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Graduate Theological Union, Flora Lamson Hewlett Library

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