http://watch.pair.com/toc-ats.html
~ A Database of Historical and
Current Data on the Strategic Partnerships &
Interlocking Directorates of Organizations
in the Global Ecumenical Movement
The World Evangelical Fellowship:
Commission on Theological Education &
The Association of Theological Schools/ATS
Editor’s Note: The World Evangelical Fellowship/WEF’s role
in theological education is comprehensive and global; encompassing the planning
and development for all theological curriculum and leadership
development. WEF’s name has been changed [2001] to World Evangelical Alliance.
The Association of Theological Schools/ATS serves as the accrediting
agency for most post graduate theological study and for most of the seminaries
in the U.S. and Canada. ATS plays a pivotal role in the transformation of
the church. Consider the fact that ATS accredited schools train the
majority of all U.S. pastors and theological professors. Add to this the
questionable and extensive partnerships between ATS accredited institutions and
the private foundations; through the largesse of the foundations, which are run
by powerful corporations, ATS is virtually under their control. But this
coexistence is how it was designed to be.
World
Evangelical Fellowship/WEF
–History of WEF’s Commission on Theological Ed., 1973 - 1982
–WEF’s ICETE––International Council for Evangelical Theological
Education, 1980
–US sponsor of WEF’s ICETE:
Accrediting
Association of Bible Colleges/ AABC [North America]
Rockefeller
Brothers Fund for Theological Education, 1954
–The Fund’s History
–The Fund’s Trustees
–Rockefeller Brothers Fund Archives, 1941-1989––grants awarded
Lilly
Endowment, Inc.
Henry
Luce Foundation, Inc.
William
Randolph Hearst Foundation
–Lilly
Research Grants & Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology Grants
–Sample
Grants–– Selected Proposals to the Lilly Theological Research Grants Program
–National
Institutes of Health––National Human Genome Research Institute
–National
Human Genome Research Institute's––Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications/ELSI
Research Program
Link to a Transformation of the Church/TOC database report:
The
Association of Theological Schools: Intersection of Religion, Science and
Cloning
Grants
offered/available to ATS members include:
–Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies
–Carnegie Corporation of New York
–Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
–Templeton Prize
–Human Genome Research Institute
–Tantur Ecumenical Institute for Theological Studies, Jerusalem
Tantur
is the Vatican’s [Pope Paul VI] dialogue center for “Christian unity”
ATS
Leadership Education under directorship of:
Fuller Theological Seminary's Richard Mouw––
The Public Character of Theological
Education Project
ATS
Membership – a merger of Protestant /Catholic doctrines/theologies
Orgs with
ATS Affiliate Status––includes:
–Unitarian Universalist Association of Congregations
–Institute of Buddhist Studies
–Graduate School of Islamic and Social Sciences
WEF/World Evangelical Fellowship’s
Commission on Theological Education
< http://www.worldevangelical.org/textonly/3commsn.htm
Editor’s Note: WEF’s name was
changed in 2001 to World Evangelical
Alliance/WEA
History
of WEF’s Theological Commission
1973 -
WEF authorized the development of three commissions:
Theology,
Mission and Communications.*
Note: The WEF
Communications Commission was placed under the auspices of Ben Armstrong,
Exec.
Secretary of the National Religious Broadcasters.
1975 -
First meeting of the WEF Theological Commission in London
1980 -
“The Theology of Development” - Hoddesdon, England
Results
of meeting were published by Ronald Sider:
Evangelicals and Development: Towards a Theology
of Social Change
1982 -
WEF Theological Commission pilots a curriculum for Th. M. degree
source:
The Dream That Would Not Die: The birth and growth of the World Evangelical
Fellowship 1846-1986, David M. Howard, The Paternoster Press, 1986.
WEF’s ICETE/ International Council for Evangelical
Theological Education, 1980
< http://www.worldevangelical.org/textonly/3icete.htm
“ICETE's history is rooted in the emergence of networks of evangelical
theological schools in the third world during the late 1960s and early 1970s.
From among these new associations came a call in 1978 for some means by which
they might be in regular contact and collaboration
at the international level. The WEF
Theological Commission agreed to sponsor the project, and ICETE was formed in
March, 1980, at meetings in Hoddlesdon, England. In the years since its
founding ICETE has become an established
international forum for dialogue and cooperation among evangelical theological
educators. ICETE has also taken a leading role in fostering renewal and
excellence in evangelical theological education worldwide. And ICETE has sought
to ensure that the interests and concerns
of theological education are effectively voiced within the larger venues of
evangelical cooperation globally. ICETE's membership now covers all major
regions of the world…” emphasis added
“ICETE
is a global community, sponsored by seven continental networks of theological
schools, to encourage international interaction and collaboration among all
those concerned for the enhancement of evangelical theological education
worldwide.”
PURPOSES
edited
Enhancement
of evangelical theological education worldwide:
•
networking… [and collaboration] … for regional accrediting bodies
• development
worldwide of programmes…that embrace in one integrated whole the spiritual,
behavioural, practical and
academic
formation of Christian leadership
•
development worldwide of programmes [one template] of
evangelical theological education…
ICETE's earlier General Directors: <http://www.worldevangelical.org/textonly/3icete_history.htm
Dr. Paul Bowers (1980-82), Dr. Robert Youngblood
(1983-88), and Dr. Roger Kemp (1989-97).
The current General Director is Dr. Dieumeme Nöelliste of Jamaica.
Youngblood is a professor at Bethel Theological Seminary––ATS
member. See below.
RENEWAL of EVANGELICAL THEOLOGICAL EDUCATION, 1990
< http://www.worldevangelical.org/textonly/3icete_manifesto.htm
1. Contextualization
2. Churchward
orientation
3. Strategic
flexibility
4. Theological
grounding
5. Continuous
assessment
6. Community life
7. Integrated
programme
8. Servant moulding
9. Instructional
variety
10.
A Christian mind
11.
Equipping for growth
12.
Cooperation
US sponsor of WEF’s ICETE/Theological Council:
AABC/Accrediting Association of
Bible Colleges North America
< http://www.gospelcom.net/aabc/
AABC accredits Bible colleges at
the pre-graduate level.
Listing of AABC Accredited
Colleges
< http://www.gospelcom.net/aabc/members.htm
Editor’s Note: The Accrediting Association of Bible Colleges (WEF's
ICETE-U.S. sponsor) has as its “sister organization” the Association of
Theological Schools/ATS.
ATS serves as the accrediting agency for most post graduate
theological study and most of the seminaries in the U.S. -- ATS plays a pivotal
role in the Transformation of the Church. Consider the fact that ATS accredited
schools train the majority of all U.S. pastors and theological professors.
After reading about ATS, below, it is hoped that the reader will understand how
all Christians are strongly influenced by what is happening in the “schools of
divinity.”
Rockefeller
Brothers Fund for Theological Education, 1954
–The Fund’s History
–The Fund’s Trustees
–Rockefeller Brothers Fund Archives, 1941-1989––grants awarded
Lilly
Endowment, Inc.
Henry
Luce Foundation, Inc.
William
Randolph Hearst Foundation
Association
of Theological Schools/ATS's Role as an Accrediting Agency, since 1936
< http://www.ats.edu/accredit/abtacc.htm
“The
Association of Theological Schools has functioned as an accrediting agency
since 1936. ATS member schools conduct post-baccalaureate degree programs
designed to prepare persons for a wide variety of positions of ministerial
leadership and teaching and research in the theological disciplines…The
Association of Theological Schools, through its Commission on Accrediting, is
recognized by the United States Secretary of Education for the accreditation
and pre-accreditation of freestanding theological schools…”
Rockefeller Brothers Fund for
Theological Education, 1954
|
“At
the present time there is no important foundation in this country that is not
controlled, usually directly but sometimes indirectly, by the Rockefellers or
their agents, to be converted to the propaganda, conspiracies and other uses of
the Rockefeller Empire.” ~ Emanuel Josephson, Rockefeller "Internationalist", NY: Chedney Press,
1952, p. 91. |
The Fund for
Theological Education – History
< http://www.thefund.org/about/history/index.html
“The Fund for Theological Education was established
in the early 1950s as a response to a perceived
crisis in Protestant theological education. At that time, a group of
influential seminary educators, clergy, and interested lay persons had become
convinced that the quality of those entering the ministry had declined and that
many of the best and brightest students were
choosing professional careers outside the ministry. In order to encourage
talented college graduates to consider the ministry, an unprecedented
initiative was launched in 1954 to attract promising but otherwise undecided
candidates to seminary education. Begun in close
affiliation with the American Association of Theological Schools , the Fund for
Theological Education grew both in scope and size over the next forty years and
became a leading force in support of excellence in theological study …
“A new kind of scholarship program for theological education
was envisioned in 1953 by two nationally known educators, Nathan Pusey, President of Harvard University, and Henry Pitney Van Dusen, President of Union Theological Seminary,
New York…Pusey and Van Dusen were not alone, and they were able to convince the Rockefeller
Brothers Fund to support a new
initiative that would enable highly qualified college graduates considering but
undecided on a ministerial career to enroll in an exploratory year of
theological studies. In 1954 an eminent board of directors was established
under Pusey's leadership in close cooperation with
the American Association of Theological Schools to guide the new
program…”
The Fund Trustees
< http://www.thefund.org/about/boardandstaff/index.html
Editor’s Note: Membership reflects
associations with other organizations including: Ford Foundation, Board of
ATS/Association of Theological Schools, University of Chicago
[Rockefeller-influenced], Candler School of Theology/Emory University,
Interdenominational Theological Center [Atlanta, GA], etc.
Rockefeller Brothers Fund Archives,
1941-1989––grants awarded
< http://www.rockefeller.edu/archive.ctr/rbfgrants.html
~ edited – see web
site for extensive listing
American Bar Association Fund
for Public Education, 1967-1976
American Council on NATO,
1959-1962
American Institute for Research
in the Behavioral Sciences, 1953-1969
American Society of
International Law, The, 1971-1976
Asia Foundation, The, 1959-1976
Aspen Institute for Humanistic
Studies, 1950-1983
Association for the Study of
Abortion, Inc., 1966-1976
Association of Theological
Schools in the U.S. and Canada, 1964-1987
Boy Scouts of America - National
Council, 1958-1976
Brookings Institution,
1953-1969, 1977
Carnegie Corporation of New York
- General, 1954-1976
Cathedral Church of St. John the
Divine, 1974-1979
Club of Rome, 1973-1976
Columbia University - Teachers
College, 1954-1969
Commission on Private
Philanthropy & Public Needs
Educational Testing Service,
1953-1980
Foreign Policy Association,
1947-1982
Fund for Theological Education,
Inc., 1952-1956, 1970-1982
Fund for Theological Education,
Inc. - Handbook, 1968-1969
Fund for Theological Education,
Inc. - Rockefeller Doctoral Fellowships in Religion Program, 1973-1976
Other U.S. Foundations Supporting ATS
http://www.thefund.org/about/foundations/index.html
include:
• Lilly Endowment, Inc.
Lilly Endowment, Inc. is an
Indianapolis-based, private philanthropic foundation created in 1937 by three
members of the Lilly family…through gifts of stock in the pharmaceutical business, Eli Lilly and
Company. Lilly Endowment exists to support the causes of religion, education
and community development. Lilly Endowment awarded FTE $3
million for a series of initiatives to attract candidates of quality to the
practice of ministry and theological scholarship.
• The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc.
The Henry Luce Foundation, Inc.
was established in 1936 by the late Henry R. Luce, co-founder and
editor-in-chief of Time, Inc…
In 1998, the Luce Foundation
awarded FTE a four-year grant of $700,000 to support its new programs designed to promote excellence and diversity in theological
education and ministerial formation.
Henry Luce III is
on the Princeton Theological Seminary board of trustees emeritus with John M. Templeton, Jr. president of the John
Templeton Foundation.
The Luce Center in
Atlanta, GA serves as the center for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund for
Theological education/The Fund/FTE.
• Local Atlanta Foundation
• The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations
• The Booth Ferris Foundation
• The William Randolph Hearst Foundations
The Hearst Foundation, Inc. was
founded in 1945 by publisher and philanthropist
William Randolph Hearst;…
In 1993, the Foundations
established a scholarship fund at FTE to promote
diversity in theological education …
• The General Mills Foundation
Association of Theological Schools/ATS
This
section includes…
–Lilly
Research Grants & Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology Grants
–Sample
Grants–– Selected
Proposals to the Lilly Theological Research Grants Program
–National
Institutes of Health––National
Human Genome Research Institute
–National
Human Genome Research Institute's––Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications/ELSI Research Program
Transformation of the
Church/TOC database report:
The Association of Theological Schools:
Intersection of Religion, Science and Cloning
< http://watch.pair.com/toc-ats-eugenics.html
Other Grants offered/available to ATS members
include:
–Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies
–Carnegie Corporation of New York
–Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
–Templeton Prize
–Human Genome Research Institute
–Tantur Ecumenical Institute for
Theological Studies
Tantur
is the Vatican’s [Pope Paul VI] dialogue center for “Christian unity”
ASSOCIATION OF THEOLOGICAL SCHOOLS
Grants available to ATS members
Found on the Association of
Theological Schools/ATS website:
Lilly Research Grants & Henry Luce III Fellows
in Theology Grants
< http://www.ats.edu/leader/grants/granttoc.htm
(Henry Luce, the son of
missionaries, founder of Time magazine.)
Sample Lilly Grants –– Selected Proposals to the Lilly Theological
Research Grants Program
< http://www.ats.edu/leader/grants/samples.htm
ATS
Faculty Grants Directory––750
funding sources
< http://www.ats.edu/faculty/fgdirtoc.htm
The
online Faculty Grants Directory
provides information on over 750 funding sources for scholarship and research
for those teaching theology or religion in graduate institutions, and for
administrators and project leaders seeking funding for institutional or
collaborative projects.
Listing of ATS Sponsors and Grants
< http://www.ats.edu/faculty/allgrnts.htm
ATS
Faculty Grants also support “projects designed to address a range of ethical,
social, and legal issues” related to the Human Genome Project:
Ÿ National Institutes of Health
National
Human Genome Research Institute
< http://www.ats.edu/faculty/spons/N0000275.HTM
Ÿ National Human Genome Research Institute's
Ethical,
Legal, and Social Implications/ELSI Research Program
< http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/About_NHGRI/Der/Elsi/
Link to a Transformation of the Church/TOC database report:
The Association of Theological Schools:
Intersection of Religion, Science and Cloning
< http://watch.pair.com/toc-ats-eugenics.html
Other
Grants offered/available to ATS members
< http://www.ats.edu/faculty/allgrnts.htm
include:
partial list
Ÿ
The Aspen
Institute for Humanistic Studies
Editor’s Note: See Watch Unto Prayer
report––
Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies: Origin of Character
Education Coalitions
< http://watch.pair.com/charter2.html#aspen
Ÿ
The Bradley Foundation, Inc.
Ÿ
Carnegie Corporation of New York
Editor’s Note: See Watch Unto Prayer report:
THE INQUIRY, THE COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS (CFR) & THE
CARNEGIE ENDOWMENT FOR INTERNATIONAL PEACE (CEIP)
< http://watch.pair.com/inquiry.html
Ÿ
Earhart Foundation
Ÿ
Ford Foundation
Ÿ
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
“The Foundation is interested in
family planning and reproductive health efforts in the developing world.”
Editor’s Note: See Watch Unto Prayer report: Charter Schools,
Character Education & the Eugenics Establishment––Behind the Conservative
Curtain: Pseudo Grassroots Organizations Front for Corporate / Government
Takeover < http://watch.pair.com/charter3.html#gates
Ÿ
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
Ÿ National Institutes of Health National Human Genome
Research Institute
< http://www.ats.edu/faculty/spons/N0000275.HTM
Ÿ
National Human Genome Research
Institute’s
Ethical,
Legal, and Social Implications (ELSI) Research Program
< http://www.nhgri.nih.gov/About_NHGRI/Der/Elsi/
Ÿ
Pew Charitable Trusts
Ÿ
Rockefeller Foundation
Ÿ
Stewardship Foundation [Weyerhaeuser]
Ÿ
United Nations University, Institute
of Advanced Studies
Ÿ
Tantur Ecumenical Institute for
Theological Studies, Jerusalem
< http://www.ats.edu/faculty/spons/T0000240.HTM
Tantur's
History & Aims < http://www.come.to/tantur
Editor’s Note: Tantur is the Vatican’s [Pope Paul VI] dialogue
center for “Christian unity.”
“In
October 1963 Orthodox, Anglican and Protestant observers at the Second Vatican
Council shared with Pope Paul VI the dream of an international ecumenical
institute for theological research and pastoral studies...
* We
assist the search for Christian unity and interchurch harmony among diverse
Christian communions. We seek a broader and deeper understanding of each
other's faith and traditions, ethics and social witness, liturgies and pieties.
* We
explore the relationships between Christians and peoples of other world faiths,
especially Jews and Muslims...”
Ÿ Templeton Prize < http://www.templetonprize.org/
Grant
Description: “The Templeton Award is not for good works. It is an award for progress in religion. The award is intended to
encourage the concept that resources and manpower are needed for progress in
spiritual knowledge and to help people see the
infinity of the Universal Spirit. The Templeton Prize, in the amount of
£600,000, is awarded annually to a living person of any religious tradition or
movement. There is no limitation of race, creed, sex, or geographical
background. Nominations are sought from all major
religions of the world.” ~ emphasis added
See TOC database,
Control over Christian Educational Institutions, Templeton Foundation
Pew Charitable Trusts Grant to ATS
for
Incarnating
Globalization
Following
was found 3/11/00 – no longer available:
< http://www.ats.edu/programs/global/global.htm
“Globalization in theological education has been a decade-long
emphasis of ATS and appears as a
consistent theme throughout the accrediting standards adopted in 1996. ATS is currently
engaged in a three-year project entitled “Incarnating
Globalization: A Strategy for Implementing Global Perspectives in Theological
Education.” The project focuses on two
major areas: (1) accreditation and globalization in theological education and
(2) cross-cultural relationships of theological institutions. The first track
addresses the cross-cutting globalization theme in the new ATS standards of
accreditation…. The information learned from this report will be reported in an
essay on globalization to
be added to the new ATS Handbook of Accreditation.”
ATS
Grant from Pew Charitable Trusts for Globalization
Found
at: Pew Charitable Trusts <http://www.pewtrusts.org/index.cfm
The
Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada
06/13/1996
- Pittsburgh, PA
“For a
project designed to facilitate the incorporation of global
perspectives in theological education. $412,000 / 3 yrs.”
Link to a Transformation of the Church/TOC report:
The Association of Theological Schools and City Transformation