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Isaac R. Clark memorial collection
Materials dating from 1940 to 1977 belonging to Isaac R. Clark, a professor of homiletics at the Interdenominational Theological Center in Atlanta, that include photographs and sound recordings of Dr. Clark's homiletics class, gospel recordings, student sermons, and lectures from prominent scholars such as Dr. Harry V. Richardson, Andrew Young, and Benjamin E. Mays.
More About This Collection
Date of Original
1940/1977
Subject
African American educators
African American preaching
African Americans--Education (Higher)--Georgia
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Interdenominational Theological Center (Atlanta, Ga.)
Religious education
Location
United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
Medium
sound recordings
photographs
Type
Still Image, Sound
Description
Dr. Isaac Rufus Clark (1925-1990), the son of Reverend James H. and Lillian Clark was born February 15, 1925, in New Castle, Pennsylvania. He graduated from New Castle public schools in 1943. After graduation, Clark served in the U.S. Navy until 1946. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Wilberforce University in 1951, and in 1952, he received his Bachelor of Divinity degree from Payne Theological Seminary. Dr. Clark went on to receive his Ph.D. in Theology from Boston University in 1958, after successfully defending his dissertation, Redemption in the Thought of Albert Knudsen and Emil Brunner. Clark was a lifelong member of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. He made public his call to the ministry in 1946, and in 1952 he was ordained as an elder. He served pastorates in Milford, Ohio, and in Lynn and New Bedford, Massachusetts. In 1955, Clark became Professor of Systematic Theology at Payne Theological Seminary, then in 1960, he became the Dean of the College and Professor of Religion and Philosophy at Paul Quinn College in Waco, Texas. In 1962, Dr. Clark joined the faculty at the Interdenominational Theological Center as Professor of Homiletics and Director of Field Education. During his twenty-eight-year tenure as a professor, he also served as registrar (1969-1975) and director of the summer session. In recognition of his contributions as a professor and scholar, in 1975 he was chosen to be the first Fuller E. Callaway Professor of Homiletics at the Interdenominational Theological Center which he held until his death at the age of 64.
Language
eng
Holding Institution
Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
Rights