Members

Current Membership Policy (as of March 23, 2013)

Active members of the American Theological Society are those who regularly attend its annual meetings and regularly pay the annual dues. A member is judged to have attended an annual meeting if he or she has 1) registered for the meeting (which entails the payment of dues) and 2) attended at least two program sessions.

Sustaining members are previously active members who have not attended a meeting within the past three years, but who have continued to pay the annual dues. Sustaining members continue to receive announcements of meetings, electronic copies of programs and papers, etc. A sustaining member is automatically restored to active membership upon attendance at an annual meeting.

Inactive members are those who have not attended at least one meeting within a three-year period and who have not paid annual dues for at least three years. Inactive members still receive announcements, papers, and other communications, and are regarded as an important part of the heritage of the Society.

Members-designate are those who have been elected to membership but who have not yet attended an annual meeting. A member-designate has three years within which to activate his or her membership; the member-designate becomes a member at that point.

The Secretary and Treasurer may exercise some discretion in the application of these policies, allowing for exceptional cases.

The Society’s membership is currently capped at one hundred. Thus, the maximum number of new members we may accept each year depends upon the total number of active members and members-designate on the roster, with some allowance for fluctuation. In consultation with the Treasurer, the Secretary adjusts the roster of active/designate, sustaining, and inactive members following each annual meeting, and the resultant roster informs the call for nominations for new members.

Definition of Eligibility for Membership: Any person in North America whose achievement in the discipline of theology, broadly conceived, is of sufficient merit to promise significant contributions to the fields of theology and to the maintenance of theological discourse of high quality at meetings of the society.

Criteria of Evaluation: (a) scholarly devotion to reflective, critical, and/or constructive study of theology, as distinct from general religious studies; (b) evidence of excellence in theological research and writing, normally meaning a Ph.D. degree or its equivalent in one of the theological disciplines, at least one post-doctoral work of significance, and a present or previous tenured position on a recognized theological faculty or equivalent evidence of scholarly affirmation by theological colleagues; (c) strong, informed recommendation by a member of the Society; (d) evidence of willingness to participate responsibly in meetings of the Society.

List of Members in the Order of their Election

Disclaimer: The list of members is as complete as extant records allow. If you know of inaccuracies or omissions, please contact us at amtheosoc@gmail.com.

Date of resignation or death not listed

1912

Charles R. Brown

Francis Brown

William Adams Brown

George A. Coe

George Cross

Edward S. Drown

Allen M. Dulles

Daniel Evans

Milton G. Evans

W. W. Fenn

A. L. Gillett

W. M. Groton

Thomas C. Hall

Arthur P. Hunt

Raymond C. Knox

Eugene W. Lyman

Duncan B. Macdonald

Douglas Macintosh

W. D. MacKenzie

Arthur C. McGiffert

Spencer B. Meiser

D. S. Miller

Edward C. Moore

Frank C. Porter

E. Hershey Sneath

Frank A. Starratt

Richard M. Vaughn

Herbert A. Youtz

1913

Rufus M. Jones

1914

R. E. Hume

W. P. Ladd

John J. Martin

Frederic Palmer

Wilford L.Robbins

1915

D. J. Fleming

Kirsopp Lake

1916

Clayton R. Bowen

Henry Sloane Coffin

E. Albert Cook

H. J. Foakes Jackson

J. B. Pratt

N. E. Richardson

1917

H.W. Fosbroke

C. B. Hedrick

1918

None

1919

G.A. Johnston Ross

George E. Horr

L.A. Weigle

1920

John Baillie

E. S. Brightman

Durant Drake

Harry Emerson Fosdick

Albert C. Knudson

George S. Richards

E. P. Scott

W. J. Thompson

H. B. Washburn

1921

W. Cosby Bell

Francis A. Christie

W. B. Hocking

John F. Vichert

1922

Angus Dun

Edwin Lewis

I. G. Matthews

W. P. Montague

Norman B. Nash

H. C. Vedden

G. R. Wells

W. K. Wright

1923

W. H. Sheldon

1924

C. A. Bennett

G. B. Cutten

Harrison S. Elliott

1925

C. A. Dinsmore

Morton S. Enslin

Edward S. Worcester

1926

J. Seelye Bixler

Marion J. Bradshaw

Robert L. Calhoun

Leonard Hodgson

Robert S. Smith

Thomas Wearing

1927

John Aberly

Frederick C. Grant

E. C. Herrick

O. W. Warmingham

1928

Edwin E. Aubrey

I. R. Beiler

E. G. Bewkes

J. M. Shaw

George F. Thomas

R. R. Wicks

1929

Walter T. Brown

Walter M. Horton

Reinhold Niebuhr

Henry P. Van Dusen

Alban G. Widgery

1930

John C. Bennett

S. L. Joslin

Douglas V. Steere

1931

H. Richard Niebuhr

Wilbur M. Urban

Augus S. Woodburne

1932

H. H. Farmer

Henry T. Hodgkin

G. H. Macgregor

Donald Mackenzie

H. Allen Overstreet

1933

None

1934

Bruce Brotherston

Vergilius Ferm

Arthur E. Murphy

Gregory Vlastos

1935

Brand Blanshard

Henry J. Cadbury

Theodore M. Greene

Joseph Haroutunian

Paul J. Tillich

1936

E. A. Burtt

Hornell Hart

T. Hermann

1937

E. R. Goodenough

Georgia Harkness

John A. Mackay

John Wild

1938

E. J. Johanson

H. W. Schneider

Percy Urban

1939

Nels F. S. Ferré

John Knox

W. Norman Pittenger

David E. Roberts

1940

Andrew Banning

Howard H. Brinton

Charles W. Lowry

Otto A. Piper

H. Shelton Smith

1941

George W. Davis

Richard S. M. Emrich

J. L. Hromadka

John E. Kuizenga

A. T. Mollegen

1942

Jacques Maritain

Albert C. Outler

Carl C. Rasmussen

1943

Clarence H. Hamilton

Hugh T. Kerr, Jr.

Hugh Vernon White

1944

Karl Löwith

1945

Peter A. Bertocci

J. Arthur Heck

Paul Minear

1946

Richard Kroner

1947

None

1948

Erich Frank

Paul Lehmann

Walter G. Muelder

John Newton Thomas

William J. Wolf

1949

Martin Heinecken