HJ International Graduate School for Peace and Public Leadership is a private Unification Church -affiliated graduate seminary headquartered in Midtown Manhattan , New York City , New York . It was known as Unification Theological Seminary ( UTS ) from its founding in 1975 until July 2023.
16-714: In September 1975, UTS acquired a 250-acre campus, including a former Catholic novitiate dating to 1931 and circa 1886 mansion, in Barrytown , Dutchess County, New York . Its first class entered that year and consisted of 56 MRE students. The seminary was granted an absolute charter from the State of New York in January 1984 and received accreditation from the Middle States Commission on Higher Education in November 1996. Following
32-466: A National Historic Landmark , and contains four notable Hudson River Valley estates: Edgewater , Massena, Rokeby , and Sylvania. In 1791, Peter and Eleanor Contine kept store at what would later be called Barrytown Landing. Barrytown was named in honor of President Andrew Jackson's Postmaster General , William Taylor Barry , who served in that capacity from 1829 to 1835. Barrytown is about 109 miles (175 km) from New York City. The majority of
48-613: A decline in enrollment and financial challenges, it was sold in January 2024 to nearby Bard College . Since then, all instruction is now conducted through the seminary’s New York City headquarters. While the majority of UTS students have been Unification Church members, there are also students from other faiths. Historically, the UTS faculty has included academics representing the Jewish, Islamic, and Christian faiths, as well as Unificationist faculty with degrees from Ivy League universities, as well as
64-582: A very tragic incident. Apparently, some members of the Donaldson family of Edgewater were on that boat. The Donaldson family donated the land for the church and cemetery at Barrytown. The cornerstone of the church was laid by Rev. Thomas S. Preston on October 17, 1875. Barrytown was a mission attended from St. Joseph's in Rhinecliff, by pastor James Fitzsimmons, until 1886 when Archbishop Corrigan appointed Rev. William J. McClure resident rector. The first burial in
80-648: Is currently working with Hee Hun Standard in the translation, editing, preparation for publication of 원리 원본 (Wolli Wonbon), the original draft of Unification teachings personally drafted by Sun Myung Moon . Michael Mickler’s History of the Unification Church in America (1993) and his 40 Years in America: An Intimate History of the Unification Movement 1959-1999 (2000) are authoritative texts on
96-610: The Graduate Theological Union , The New School , Vanderbilt University , and Drew University , among others. The seminary has over 125 students enrolled in its three Master degrees and in its Doctor of Ministry (DMin) program. Most Unification Church leaders in the United States hold UTS degrees. UTS graduates have also played major leadership roles in many of the Unification Church-related organizations in
112-602: The Religious Education Association . The seminary also sponsors The Journal of Unification Studies, an academic journal. The seminary offers four distinct degree programs: Barrytown, New York Barrytown is a hamlet (and census-designated place) within the town of Red Hook in Dutchess County , New York , United States. It is within the Hudson River Historic District ,
128-592: The Cemetery was November 23, 1886. The rectory was built in 1887. In 1886, St. Sylvia's in Tivoli became a mission of Barrytown. As travelling to Barrytown proved hazardous in winter, in 1910, St. Christopher's in Red Hook was founded as a mission of Sacred Heart Parish. Sacred Heart once stood amid the bustle of rivercommerce, but over time, the population center shifted to Red Hook. Sacred Heart remained in use until 1969; it
144-558: The Unification Church’s first theologian and the first Korean missionary to the United States, taught at Unification Theological Seminary from its founding in 1975 until just prior to her death in 1989. Kim authored several seminal church academic texts including Unification Principle and its Applications (1980) and Unification Theology (1980), Unification Thought and Christian Theology (date), and Systematic Theology. David S.C. Kim, an early missionary, who served as President of
160-571: The Unification Church’s own canon of Divine Principle, Unification Thought, the Teachings and Writings of Sun Myung Moon and Hak Ja Han Moon and their applications, and other related sources. The seminary has played an important role in Unification apologetics, academic research related to the movement’s historical development, and in the articulation of the Unificationist perspective. Young Oon Kim,
176-543: The Unification Movement, documenting both its achievements and challenges. Over the past five decades, numerous volumes on Theology, Church History, Religious Education, Inter-Religious Dialogue, Peace Studies, Evolution, Threats to Ecosystems, and on the Philosophy of Science have been published by UTS faculty and alums, including Jonathan Wells, Thomas Walsh, Karen Smith, Keisuke Noda, Frank Kaufmann, Frederick Swarts, and Kathy Winings, who currently serves as National President of
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#1732869060118192-580: The Unification Theological Seminary from 1975-1994 edited the authoritative three-volume Day of Hope in Review texts, comprehensive collections of the press coverage of the early years of Moon's speaking tours in the United States. Andrew Wilson, a Harvard-trained Old Testament Scholar, oversaw the selection of texts and the editing of World Scriptures (1991) and also served as co-author together with Joong Hyun Pak of True Family Values . Wilson
208-732: The United States, as well as Unification-inspired civil society and corporate entities including the Universal Peace Federation, the Family Federation for World Peace, World Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles (CARP), the American Clergy Leadership Conference, World & I Magazine , Paragon Publishers, the Professors World Peace Academy, Unification Theological Seminary, and
224-681: The Women’s Federation for World Peace. As of 2022, there are over 1,550 UTS graduates. Since its inception, the Unification Theological Seminary has served as the principal venue to provide formal, academic religious and theological training for its Church leaders. It has offered courses in New Testament , Old Testament , the Pauline Epistles , Patristics , Hermeneutics , Church History, Apologetics as well as Islam , East Asian Religion , Religious Education , Peace Studies, as well as in
240-618: The houses in Barrytown were built in the mid to late nineteenth century, often to house workers at the local estates and accompanying farms. David Johnson , of the Hudson River School , painted his View of the Hudson from Barrytown, New York in 1872. The Episcopal Church of St. John the Evangelist was founded in 1874 by Jane Moore Breck Aspinwall in memory of her husband, John. The church
256-525: Was designed by William Appleton Potter . The Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church was established to serve the Irish Catholic population employed on the railroads and large estates. Prior to the building, they attended services across the river in Rondout and Saugerties, walking across the frozen river in winter or crossing by boat, weather permitting. On one occasion, a boat and its occupants narrowly missed
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