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
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
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
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
–Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
–Templeton Prize
–Human Genome Research Institute
–Tantur Ecumenical Institute for Theological
Studies,
Tantur is
the
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
–
–
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,
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
1980 -
“The Theology of Development” -
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
“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
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
< 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
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
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
Aspen Institute for Humanistic
Studies, 1950-1983
Association for the Study of
Abortion, Inc., 1966-1976
Association of Theological
Schools in the
Boy Scouts of
Brookings Institution,
1953-1969, 1977
Carnegie Corporation of
Club of
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
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
• Local
• The Arthur Vining
• 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
–Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
–Templeton Prize
–Human Genome Research Institute
–Tantur
Ecumenical Institute for Theological Studies
Tantur is the
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
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
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.”