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Horace Bushnell Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 39
Overview:
The collection includes five diaries containing valuable biographical information and documenting Bushnell's trip abroad, 1845-1846, and manuscript sermons, 1832-1875, which give insight into the less formal aspects of Bushnell's thought. The material written about Bushnell during his lifetime pertains to the controversy associated with his theological beliefs. Horace Bushnell was born in Bantam, Connecticut on April 14, 1802. He was educated at Yale (B.A., 1827; M.A., 1830; B.D., 1833), and...
Dates:
1832-1902
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Samuel Clarke Bushnell Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 77
Overview:
The papers consist primarily of manuscript sermons dating from 1877 to 1928. Samuel Clarke Bushnell (1852-1928), a Yale Divinity School graduate, was a Congregational minister in Massachusetts and Connecticut.
Dates:
1877-1928
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Cai Yongchun Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 205
Overview:
Correspondence, writings, and research materials by and about Cai Yongchun (Ts'ai Yung-ch'un) (1904-1983), provide insight into the life and work of a Chinese scholar, educator, and theologian, and into conditions in China during the Cultural Revolution.
Dates:
1924-2002
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Leonard and Marjorie Caldwell Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 217
Overview:
This collection consists of personal letters, a diary, oral history transcript, printed material, photographs, and memorabilia dating primarly from 1921 to 1926 when Leonard Caldwell was teaching math and physics at the University of Nanking. Caldwell, a Yale graduate, worked as a civil engineer in the U.S. following his return from China. Marjorie Caldwell was a librarian, as well as missionary wife and mother.
Dates:
1921-1983
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Campbell Family Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 7
Overview:
The papers document two generations of Baptist missionary effort in South China. Extensive biographical and autobiographical material gives insight into the personal lives of the Campbells. Conditions in China during World War II are reflected in the letters of Louise and Dorothy Campbell. The Campbells were a family of missionaries in China. George Campbell and his wife, Jennie Wortman Campbell served in South China (1887-1916). Four of their eight children continued missionary efforts. Louise...
Dates:
1855-1972
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Campus Ministry Advancement Records
Collection
Call Number: RG 259
Overview:
This collection documents the history and operations of Campus Ministry Advancement, an organization incorporated in Ohio in 1967 to support Christian ministries in higher education. Legal documents, minutes, correspondence, financial records, and tax records are included.
Dates:
1967-2009
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Campus Ministry Women records
Collection
Call Number: RG 68
Overview:
The collection traces the operations of the Campus Ministry Women organization from its founding in 1974 until its disbanding in 1996.
Dates:
1969-1996
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Emery and Elvera Carlson Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 246
Overview:
Correspondence, writings, and collected material document the work of Emery W. Carlson and Elvera Teed Carlson, Lutheran missionaries serving in China from 1940 to 1949. Emery Carlson was a medical doctor who worked at the Lutheran Hospital in Xuchang, Henan (Hsuchang, Honan) province from 1941 to 1944. He was active in famine relief work 1942-1944 and in 1945 became an intelligence officer working for the Office of Strategic Services behind Japanese lines in Henan. After the war Carlson...
Dates:
1928-1980, bulk 1940-1949
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Samuel Moss Carter Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 268
Overview:
Sermons, writings, notes, teaching materials, and personal items provide substantive documentation of the life and work of Dr. Samuel Moss Carter, an early African American graduate of the Yale Divinity School, who was a Baptist pastor and professor of Church History, primarily in Virginia.
Dates:
1923-1995
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Catholic Apostolic Church Records
Collection
Call Number: RG 55
Overview:
The papers consist primarily of printed pamphlets and sermons. The Catholic Apostolic Church was an eschatologically oriented group which split from the Church of England in the early 19th century.
Dates:
1825-1973
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Irah Chase Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 296
Overview:
The collection documents Chase's theological training and his work at Columbian College and the Newton Theological Institution where he taught Biblical theology (1825-1838) and church history (1838-1845), as well as his later work as an author of tracts and articles for religious periodicals.
Dates:
1814-1864
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
George A. Chauncey Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 267
Overview:
Correspondence, writings, sermons, and collected material document the life and work of George A. Chauncey, who graduated from Yale Divinity School in 1952 and served as a Presbyterian parish minister in the South, activist for civil rights and peace, and founding director of the Washington Office of the Presbyterian Church.
Dates:
1948-2011
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Chick Tract Collection
Collection
Call Number: RG 270
Overview:
Controversial tracts written and illustrated in comic book style by Jack T. Chick since the early 1960s document a fringe element of American Christian fundamentalism and provide valuable insight into the reaction of evangelicalism to cultural upheavals in America society.
Dates:
1961-2015
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Chinese Students' Christian Association in North America Records
Collection
Call Number: RG 13
Overview:
The papers, though quite fragmentary, represent the most complete documentation available for the history of the Chinese Students' Christian Association, and provide a skeletal outline of its activities, policies and personnel. This collection is a noteworthy supplement to other record groups at the Divinity Library that document religious work among college and university students. The Chinese Students' Christian Association was organized in 1909 by four students from the universities of Yale,...
Dates:
1909-1952
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Christian Conference of Asia Records
Collection
Call Number: RG 237
Overview:
These are the official archives of the Christian Conference of Asia, a regional ecumenical organization representing church councils and denominations in Australia, Bangladesh, Burma, Cambodia, East Timor, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Laos, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Thailand. The CCA began as the East Asia Christian Conference in 1957 and changed its name to Christian Conference of Asia in 1973.
Dates:
1946-2008
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
John William Colenso Papers
Collection
Call Number: RG 129
Overview:
Writings by and about Colenso document the controversies that surrounded this church leader in South Africa. John William Colenso (1814-1883) was appointed Bishop of Natal, South Africa in 1854. He was a controversial figure due to his stance on polygamy and his theology.
Dates:
1855-1908
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Commission on Christian Higher Education Research Project records
Collection
Call Number: RG 231
Overview:
These papers document the “What is a Christian College?” Research Study Project conducted by the Commission on Christian Higher Education of the Association of American Colleges, in association with the National Council of Churches. The papers include workshop information, summaries of workshop results, research study progress reports from participating colleges, manuscripts of book chapters intended for publication, and correspondence regarding the research study, workshops, and manuscripts.
Dates:
1951-1958
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Committee on Christian Literature For Women and Children in Mission Fields, Inc. Records
Collection
Call Number: RG 90
Overview:
The archives document the work of an organization run by women for women. They provide insight into developing concepts of the role of Christian literature and related artwork overseas. The Committee was formed in 1912 under the sponsorship of the Federation of Women's Boards of Foreign Missions. Its goal was to provide Christian literature to women and children overseas. In the first fifty years of its existence the Committee supported 27 magazines, nine of which were originated by the...
Dates:
1909-1989
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Congregational Church Records
Collection
Call Number: RG 56
Overview:
The Congregational Church Records of Record Group 56 are an open collection of primarily printed material dating from approximately 1709-1983. Records of various official bodies are encompassed by the record group as it documents churches of Congregational polity individually and in cooperation on local, state, national and international levels.
Dates:
1709-1983
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library
Council for Ecumenical Student Christian Ministry Records
Collection
Call Number: RG 107
Overview:
The Council for Ecumenical Student Christian Ministry (CESCM) was founded in 1987 to "in order to create new opportunities for involving students and campus ministries in the work to rebuild an ecumenical student Christian ministry in the United States." This record group contains material related to predecessor organizations and administrative files from CESCM from its inception in 1987 to 2000. The CESCM grew out of the National Ecumenical Student Christian Council (NESCC), which was...
Dates:
1956-2000
Found in:
Yale Divinity Library