Roger Lincoln Shinn

Background

Shinn, Roger Lincoln was born on January 6, 1917 in Germantown, Ohio, United States. Son of Henderson L.V. and Carrie Margaret (Buehler) Shinn.

Education

Bachelor, Heidelberg College, 1938. Master of Divinity summa cum laude, Union Theological Seminary, 1941. Doctor of Philosophy, Columbia University, 1951.

Doctor of Divinity (honorary), Mission House Theological Seminary, 1960. Doctor of Divinity (honorary), Franklin and Marshall College, 1963. Doctor of Letters (honorary), Heidelberg College, 1963.

Doctor of Humane Letters (honorary), Drury College, 1984. HHD (honorary), Blackburn University, 1985.

Career

Private practice horticulture, 1932-1937; student assistant, 2d Presbyn Church, New York City, 1938-1941; instructor, Union Theological Seminary, New York City, 1947-1949; chairman Depts. Philosophy and Religion, Heidelberg College, Tiffin, Ohio., 1949-1954; professor theology, Vanderbilt University Division School, Nashville, 1954-1957; professor Christian Ethics, Vanderbilt University Division School, Nashville, 1957-1959; William E. Dodge Junior professor Applied Christianity, Union Theological Seminary, New York City, 1960-1970; Reinhold Niebuhr professor Social Ethics, Union Theological Seminary, New York City, 1970-1985; dean of instruction, Union Theological Seminary, New York City, 1963-1970; acting president, Union Theological Seminary, New York City, 1974-1975; counselor to graduate students, Union Theological Seminary, New York City, 1975-1985. Adjunct Professor religion and society Columbia University, 1962-1986.

Adjunct Professor economics New York University Graduate School Business Administration, 1979. Visiting professor Philosophies of Judaism, Jewish Theological Seminary American, 1982. Lecturer Pacific School Religion, 1957, Harvard University, 1960, Garrett Theological Seminary, 1967, Association American Colls., 1970, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1971, United States Army Chaplain School, 1974, Woodstock College, 1971-1974.

Visiting professor Pacific School Religion, 1986, VanderbiltU., 1991. Adjunct Professor Drew U., 1987-1993, Princeton Theological Seminary, 1990. Lecturer in field.

Achievements

• Roger Lincoln Shinn has been listed as a noteworthy minister, educator by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

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  • Christianity and the Problem of History

    (PARTIAL LIST OF KEYWORDS: Problems; Evidence; Universal H...)

  • Wars and Rumors of Wars

    (A book reflecting the author's experiences at the end of ...)

  • THE EDUCATIONAL MISSION OF OUR CHURCH

    (This brief but far-ranging book has been written to acqua...)

  • The Existentialist Posture

    (The Existentialist Posture derives from an attitude as ol...)

  • Life, death, and destiny (Layman's theological library)

    (Nonfiction: religion)

  • Tangled World PAPER BACK HEADLINE EDITIONS HE 2
  • Forced Options: Social Decisions for the 21st Century, Religious Perspectives Volume 27
  • Forced Options: Social Decisions for the 21st Century : With Reconsiderations
  • The educational mission of our church
  • New Directions in Theology Today Volume VI Man: The New Humanism
  • Man: the new humanism (New directions in theology today)
  • Laymans Theological Library 10 Set: Understanding Bible,Protestant & Politics Significance of Church,Prayer & Personal Religion,Believing in God,Making Ethical Decisions,Modern Rivals Christian Faith,Christian Man,Life Death Destiny,Meaning of Christ
  • Christianity and the Problem of History
  • Forced Options: Social Decisions for the 21st Century
  • Man, the new humanism (New directions in theology today)
  • Restless Adventure: Essays on Contempary Expressions of Existentialism
  • Restless Adventure
  • Existentialist Posture: With a Discussion of Pascal, Dostoevsky, Nietzsche, Kierkegaard, Sartre, Camus, Heidegger, Tillich, Bonhoeffer, Bultmann, Fletcher, Cox and others
  • Beyond this darkness;: What the events of our time have meant to Christians who face the future,
  • New Directions in Theology Today: Volume VI. Man: the New Humanism

Membership

Served to major United States Army, 1941-1945, European Theatre of Operations. Member American Dental Association, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, American Theological Society(president 1975-1976), Society Christian Ethics (president 1974-1975), Society for Values in Higher Education (Kent fellow 1946), Conference on Science, Philosophy and Religion (fellow 1966), American Vets Committee, American Association for United Nations, League for Industrial Democracy.

Connections

Son of; married Katharine Cole, November 6, 1943. Children: Carol Katharine Shinn Wheeler, Marybeth.

Father:

Henderson L.V. Shinn

Mother:

Carrie Margaret (Buehler) Shinn

Spouse:

Katharine Cole

child:

Carol Katharine Shinn Wheeler Shinn

child:

Marybeth Shinn