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James C. Livingston Papers, Special Collections Research Center, Swem Library, College of William and Mary.
Gift. Acquisition information for material received after 7/13/2009 is available by consulting a Special Collections Research Center staff member.
Acc. 2012.036 accessioned and minimally processed by Amy C. Schindler, University Archivist, in January 2012. Acc. 2013.063 accessioned and minimally described by Steven Bookman, University Archives Specialist, in April 2013.
James C. Livingston was a member of the faculty in Religious Studies and administration at the College of William and Mary from 1968 until his retirement in 1998.
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The papers of Prof. James C. Livingston document his career as a scholar and professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the College of William & Mary. The collection includes research material, lectures and other talks, correspondence, course material for classes at William & Mary and the Christopher Wren Association, among others. The collection also documents university administrative information related to the establishment of Religious Studies, the Dean of the Undergraduate Program, curriculum reviews, and other matters.
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This series contains research material, lectures and other talks, correspondence, and course material for classes at William & Mary as well as the Christopher Wren Association taught by Professor James C. Livingston. Also included in the series are university administrative records related to the establishment of Religious Studies, the Dean of the Undergraduate Program, curriculum reviews, as well as material about Vietnam and a nuclear disarmament study group.
The sub-series includes lecture notes, overhead slides, and other course materials used by Prof. Livingston for classes taught at the College of William and Mary and with the Christopher Wren Association; speeches and lectures given by Livingston on a variety of topics; and various academic acknowledgements awarded to Livingston.
Course materials for Religion 210 taught by Prof. Livingston at the College of William and Mary.
Course materials for Religion 210 taught by Prof. Livingston at the College of William and Mary.
Course materials for Religion 210 taught by Prof. Livingston at the College of William and Mary.
Course materials for Religion 210 taught by Prof. Livingston at the College of William and Mary.
Course materials for Religion 210 taught by Prof. Livingston at the College of William and Mary.
Course materials for Religion 210 taught by Prof. Livingston at the College of William and Mary.
Course materials for Religion 210 taught by Prof. Livingston at the College of William and Mary.
Course materials for Religion 210 taught by Prof. Livingston at the College of William and Mary.
Course materials for Relgion 307 and Religion 335 taught by Prof. Livingston at the College of William and Mary.
Course materials for Religion 340 taught by Prof. Livingston at the College of William and Mary.
Course materials for Religion 340 taught by Prof. Livingston at the College of William and Mary.
Course materials used by Prof. Livingston for "A Brief History of Apocalypticism and its Influence on Western Civilization", a course taught with the Christopher Wren Association.
Reader used by Prof. Livingston for "The World's Religions: How are We to Understand their Differences, Comparisons, and Claims?", a course taught with the Christopher Wren Association.
Materials for courses taught by Prof. Livingston with the Christopher Wren Association.
Materials for courses taught by Prof. Livingston with the Christopher Wren Association in 1998, 1999, and 2000.
Course materials used for "Comparative Religion: Conceptions of Ultimate Reality, the Cosmos and Nature, and the Human Condition" taught by Prof. Livingston with the Christopher Wren Association.
Course materials for "Comparative Religion: Conceptions of Ultimate Reality, the Cosmos and Nature, and the Human Condition" taught by Prof. Livingston with the Christopher Wren Association.
Course materials for "Comparative Religion: Conceptions of Ultimate Reality, the Cosmos and Nature, and the Human Condition" taught by Prof. Livingston with the Christopher Wren Association.
Course materials for "Modern Roman Catholicism: The Development of Some Important Teachings" taughty by Prof. Livingston with the Christopher Wren Association.
Course material for "Three Existentialist Religious Thinkers: Blaise Pascal (1623-62), Soren Kierkegaard (1813-55), Paul Tilich (1886-1965)" taught by Prof. Livingston with the Christopher Wren Association.
Course materials for "An Introduction to Comparative Religion: Conceptions of Ultimate Reality, the Human Condition and Plight, and the Problem of Evil" taught by Prof. Livingston with the Christopher Wren Association.
Course materials for "What is Religion? An Overview of Influential Ideas about the Origins and Essence of Religion" taught by Prof. Livingston with the Christopher Wren Association.
Lecture notes by Prof. Livingston for a course taught with the Christopher Wren Association.
Materials and lecture notes by Prof. Livingston for a course taught with the Christopher Wren Association.
Course materials for "The Three Quests of the Historical Jesus" taught by Prof. Livingston with the Christopher Wren Association.
Course materials for "An Introduction to Comparative Religion: Conceptions of Ultimate Reality, the Human Condition and Plight, and the Problem of Evil" taught by Prof. Livingston with the Christopher Wren Association.
Lecture notes by Prof. Livingston for the Christopher Wren Association.
Lecture notes and materials used by Prof. Livingston with the Christopher Wren Association.
Lecture notes and materials for the Christopher Wren Association.
Lecture notes and materials used by Prof. Livingston with the Christopher Wren Association.
Course materials for "The World's Religions: How Are We to Understand their Differences, Comparisons, and Claims?" taught by Prof. Livingston with the Christopher Wren Association.
Course materials for "The World's Religions: How Are We to Understand their differences, Comparisons, and Claims?" taught by Prof. Livingston with the Christopher Wren Association.
Course materials for "The World's Religions: How Are We to Understand their Differences, Comparisons, and Claims?" taught by Prof. Livingston with the Christopher Wren Association.
Course materials for "The World's Religions: How Are We to Understand their Differences, Comparisons, and Claims?" taught by Prof. Livingston with the Christopher Wren Association.
Course materials for " The World's Religions: How Are We to Understand their Differences, Comparisons, and Claims?" taught by Prof. Livingston for the Christopher Wren Association.
Course materials for "The World's Religions: How Are We to Understand their Differences, Comparisons, and Claims?" taught by Prof. Livingston with the Christopher Wren Association.
Handwritten notes about culture wars.
Handwritten notes for a lecture on religious fundamentalism given by Livingston.
Edited draft of "The Shaping of a Self", speech given at honors convocation on April 20, 1978.
"Idealism and Realism in American Foreign Policy: Ironies of History" speech given by Livingston.
Speech given by Livingston for the Last Lecture series.
Handwritten notes for "Religious Fundamentalism... a Force to be Reckoned With in Today's World" given by Livingston on March 22, 2004 at St. Bede's Church.
"Reflections on the Study of Religion in the University", Walter G. Mason Lecture given by Livingston on April 21, 1987.
"The Recovery of the Spiritual Life", a speech given by Livingston.
"The Self and Liberal Education in a Therapeutic Culture", speech written by Livingston.
Various talks given by Livingston, including "Christian conscience and Use of Nuclear Weapons" and "Responsibilities of Marriage".
Correspondence and other materials concerning Livingston's award of the Bross Foundation's Decennial Prize of $20,000 for his unpublished book manuscript on Matthew Arnold.
Materials from Charter Day 1994, periodicals, cards of congratulations for being awarded the Thomas Jefferson Award, and various other materials.
Correspondence concerning various acknowledgements won by Livingston, including his nomination in the Commonwealth's Outstanding Faculty Awards Program and his award of a Faculty Research Assignment to work on his research project "English Religious Thought, 1860-1910".
Correspondence, newspaper articles, and other materials concerning the State Council Teaching Award presented to Livingston in 1989.
Correspondence, newspaper articles, and other materials concerning the Walter D. Mason professorship awarded to Livingston.
Correspondence, newspaper articles, and other materials concerning the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars Fellowship awarded to Livingston.
Article written by Carol Capo for the Daily Press about Prof. Livingston and his response letter to her.
A letter written to Mrs. Livingston about the death of her husband, Prof. Livingston.
Materials from an interview of Livingston about his retirement for Religious News.
Materials concerning the retirement of Prof. Livingston from the College of William and Mary in 1998, including programs from his retirment ceremony.
Research material on religious studies and philosophical themes, among others, including such prominent figures as Karl Barth, Charles Darwin, Paul Tillich, and P.N. Waggett; drafts and finalized works written by and edited by Prof. Livingston.
Miscellaneous articles written by Livingston, including "The Shaping of a Self", "Tillich's Christology and Historical Research", and "The Contextualization of Intellectual History with Special Attention to Roman Catholic Modernism and Anti-Modernism".
Research and writings about civil religion, including "American Civil Religion: Requiem for a Faith?" by Livingston and newspaper interviews with Livingston about civil religion.
Correspondence with publishers and articles written by Livingston, including "Darwin, Darwinism, and Theology: Recent Studies" published in the Religious Studies Review from April 1982.
Article about Jacques Maritain written by Livingston.
"Preparing Students to live and to Make a Living" by Livingston.
"The Variety of Anglican Modernism" essay.
Handwritten notes and "Ritschl in Retrospect: History, Community, and Science".
Correspondence with publishers and "The Shaping of a Self: Some Considerations for Liberal Education" by Livingston.
Correspondence with publishers and "George Tyrrell as 'Modernist': His Key Theological Principles and His Replies to His Anti-Modernist Critics" written by Livingston.
Research about Claude Welch and "Reflections on Claude Welch's Protestant Thought in the Nineteenth Century".
Edited draft of "Chapter Four: The Theologies of Karl Barth".
Handwritten notes and edited drafts of works, including chapters about Louis Bautian and Maurice Blondel.
Handwritten notes, research, and book chapters about Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Handwritten notes and typed pages about Dietrich Bonhoeffer.
Correspondence with publishers and the article "Christianity, Unbelief Within" written by Livingston.
Edited draft of chapter three "The Dialectual Theology: Karl Barth, Emil Brunner, and Friedrich Gogarten".
Research and an edited draft of chapter ten "Modern Women and Traditional Religion" from Religious and Modern Thought.
Final draft of chapter 24 "The Defense of Traditional Religion: 1790-1870".
Draft of "Gordon Kaufman: Theology as Imaginative Construction" and research about Kaufman.
Handwritten notes and drafts of various works, including chapter fifteen "Theology of Religions: Christian Responses to the Non-Christian Religions".
Correspondence with publishers and research, including Religious Thought in the Eighteenth Century by John Martin Creed.
Handwritten notes, research, and "Friedrich Scheiermacher, Theological Representative ofo the Romantic Movement", written by Livingston as a student in 1953 for the course History 264.
Research about Ernst Troeltsch and an edited draft about Troeltsch.
"Wilfred Cantwell Smith, Religious Pluralism, and the Question of Religious Truth" written by Livingston.
"Is There an Educator at the College? Some Reflections on the Relationship Between Academic and Student Affairs" written by Livingston.
"Freedom, Pornography, Censhorship" written by Livingston.
Letter to the editor of The Virginia Gazette written by Livingston responding to an opinion piece written by Frank Shatz.
Research about the role of religion at the university level.
Handwritten notes about the Doctrine of the Atonement.
Handwritten notes about the Doctrine of Authority.
Handwritten notes about the Doctrine of the Church.
Handwritten notes about the Doctrine of the Incarnation.
Handwritten notes about the Doctrine of the Incarnation.
Handwritten notes about the Doctrine of Man.
Handwritten notes about the Doctrine of Trinity.
Handwritten notes about the Doctrine of Trinity.
Research about Henry Dodwell's "Christianity Not Founded on Argument".
Handwritten notes about Ecumenism.
Handwritten notes and research about the Ethics of Belief.
Research about David Ellenson.
Research about David Ellenson.
Handwritten notes and research about the Enlightenment.
Handwritten notes and research about Evangelicalism.
Handwritten notes and research about Evangelical Theory.
Handwritten notes.
Handwritten notes and research on the existence of nature of God.
Handwritten notes about factors leading to the Protestant Reformation.
Lecture notes and research about faith and reason.
A draft of Sarah Coakley's book chapter about feminist theology.
Handwritten notes and research about Ludwig Feuerbach and Karl Marx.
Research about freedom and restraint.
Handwritten notes and research about fundamentalism in America.
Research about global fundamentalism.
Research about fundamentalism and modernism.
Handwritten notes and research about Johann George Hamann.
Research about "The Allienated The Theologian" by Van Harvey.
Handwritten notes about Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
Handwritten notes about Martin Heidegger.
Research about Hellenism and Christianity.
Research about Wilhelm Herrmann.
Draft of chapter 11 "History and Hermeneutics" by Francis Schussler Fiorenza.
Handwritten ntoes and research about the historical Jesus.
Handwritten notes and research about David Hume.
"The Administrator" by Robert Maynard Hutchins.
Handwritten notes, research, and a speech given by Prof. Livingston titled "Idealism and Realism in American Foreign Relations: Ironies of History".
"Images of Eternity: Concepts of God in Five Religious Traditions" by Keith Ward.
Handwritten notes about the infallibility debate.
Handwritten notes about William James.
Research about William James.
Handwritten notes about Jansenism and Gallicanism.
Handwritten notes about Japanese religion.
Handwritten notes about the historical Jesus.
Handwritten notes about the Jewish background of Christianity.
Doctrinal Congregation "'Dominus Iesus': On the Unicity and Salvific Universality of Jesus Christ and the Church" from the Catholic News Service.
Handwritten notes and research about Just War Theory.
Handwritten notes and typed pages about Immanuel Kant.
Handwritten notes, typed pages, and research about Soren Kierkegaard.
Handwritten notes, overhead slides, and research about Kierkegaard.
Handwritten notes and "Laborum Exercens: Encyclical of Pope John Paul II On Human Work".
Prophecy and Papacy: A Study of Lamennais the Church and the Revolution" by Alec R. Vidler.
Handwritten notes about the Lenox School.
Research articles about liberal education.
Research articles about liberal education.
Research articles about liberal education.
Handwritten notes and research about liberation theology.
Handwritten notes and research about Martin Luther.
Handwritten notes and typed pages about Gabriel Marcel.
Handwritten notes about Martin Luther
Handwritten notes and research about "Mater Et Magistra" by Pope John XXIII.
"Appendix A: The Members of the Metaphysical Society" detailing the members of the Metaphysical Society from 1809 to 1880.
Miscellaneous papers, including "The Christian Intellectual Tradition" by Robert L. Wilken and "The William and Mary Athletic Scandal of 1951: Governance and the Battle for Academic and Athletic Integrity" by Ronald A. Smith.
Handwritten notes on a variety of topics, including mysticism, sexual ethics, and the destiny of man.
Research about multiculturalism, including "Humanities for the Future: Reflections on the Western Culture Debate at Standford" by Mary Louise Pratt.
Handwritten notes and research about Neo-Thominism.
Handwritten notes about the establishment of new orders.
Handwritten notes about John Henry Newman's grammar of assent.
Handwritten notes and "Justification, Excuse and Confession, a Legal Analogy for Understanding Religious Beliefs and the Study of Religion" by Jouett L. Powell.
Handwritten notes and research about H. Richard Niebuhr.
Handwritten notes and research about Reinhold Niebuhr.
Handwritten notes and research about Reinhold Niebuhr, including his "Coherence, Incoherence, and Christian Faith".
Handwritten notes and research about Nietzshce, inluding Social Theory and Practice: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal of Social Philosophy.
Handwritten notes about the Oxford Movement.
A revised copy of "The Oxford Movement and English Nonconformity" by Dale A. Johnson.
Handwritten notes and "Pacem in Terris: Encyclical of Pope John XXIII on Establishing Universal Peace in Truth, Justice, Charity, and Liberty".
Handwritten notes and research about Blaise Pascal.
Handwritten notes and research about Blaise Pascal.
Second draft of "Pastoral Letter on Catholic Social Teaching and the U.S. Economy" by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops on October 7, 1985.
Materials about wars and morality and "The Challenge of Peace: God's Promise and Our Response A Pastoral Letter on War and Peace" by the National Conference of Catholic Bishops on May 3, 1983.
Handwritten notes about pietism.
Handwritten notes about Pius IX.
Research about the place of religion in higher education, including "The Place of Theology in the Study of Religion" by Edward Farley.
Draft of chapter nine: Political Theology and Latin American Liberation Theologies by Francis Schüssler Fiorenza.
Handwritten notes and sections of "Populorum Progressio" by Pope Paul VI.
Research about postliberalism and postliberalist writers.
Handwritten notes and research about process theology.
Handwritten notes and research about process philosophy and theology, including research about Schubert M. Ogden.
Handwritten notes about protestant orthodoxy.
Handwritten notes about Puritanism.
Handwritten notes about "Quadragesima Anno" by Pope Pius XI.
Handwritten notes and research about the Radical Reformation.
Research about Karl Rahner.
Research about reformed Epistemology.
"Doing Good in American Communities: Congregations and Service Organizations Working Together" by Nancy T. Ammerman, Hartford Institute for Religion Research.
Research about the religious right.
Religious Thought in the Eighteenth Century by John Martin Creed and John Sandwith Boys Smith.
Research about George Romanes and J.T. Gulick.
Handwritten notes and research about Aubrey Moore and George Romanes.
A Candid Examination of Theism by Goerge Romanes.
Handwritten notes and various romantic poems.
Handwritten notes and research about Albert Schweitzer, including "Albert Schweitzer: Sermons" from The Life and Thought of Albert Schweitzer by Werner Picht.
Includes handwritten notes and research about the relationship between science and religion, including discussion about topics such as Charles Darwin, evolution, creationism, and intelligent design.
Research about the relationship between science and religion.
Research about secularization, including "The Concept of Secularization in Empirical Research" by Larry Shiner.
Handwritten notes and research, including sections of the Rerum Novarum by Pope Leo XIII.
Handwritten notes and typed pages about the social Gospel.
Handwritten notes and research about soteriology.
Handwritten notes about Baruch Spinoza.
Handwritten notes and "D.F. Strauss' Life of Jesus Revisited" by Van A. Harvey.
Handwritten notes and The Secret Sayings of The Living Jesus: Studies in the Coptic Gospel According to Thomas by Ray Summers.
Handwritten notes and research about Paul Tillich, including "Critique and Justification of Utopia" by Paul Tillich.
Handwritten notes and research about tradition and Christianity, including "Tradition and Reflection in Christian Life" by Paul Ramsey.
Handwritten notes about the Doctrine of the Trinity and the trinitarian controversy.
Handwritten notes about ultramontanism.
Handwritten notes and research about the second Vatican council.
"Chapter eight: Vatican II and the Aggiornamento of Roman Catholic Theology" by Fiorenza.
Handwritten notes and research about the first Vatican Council, including "Current Theology Infallibility: A Review of Recent Studies" by John T. Ford.
Research about Victorians and mountaineering.
Handwritten notes and research about the Vietnam War.
Handwritten notes, emails, and research about P.N. Waggett.
Handwritten notes and research about P.N. Waggett.
Flame from an Oxford Cloister: The Life and Writings of Philip Napier Waggett 1862-1939 Scientist Religious Theologian, Missionary, Philosopher, Diplomat, Author, Orator, Poet" by John Nias.
"At Large and At Small: Loving and Hating Simone Weil" by Francine Du Plessix Gray.
Handwritten notes and typed pages about H.N. Wieman.
Handwritten notes, research, and typed pages about Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Written notes about Americanism.
Notes and research about Anglicans and Roman Catholics.
Research about the anthropic principle.
Research about apocalypticism.
Written notes about the apocrypha.
Written notes and research about Thomas Aquinas.
A copy of "Archetypal Heresy: Arianism through the Centuries" by Maurice Wiles.
Handwritten notes and research about Augustine.
Handwritten notes and research about St. Augustine.
Handwritten notes and research about authority in the Anglican tradition.
Research about Arthur J. Balfour.
Handwritten notes and research about the theology of Karl Barth.
Handwritten notes and research about the Biblical question.
A copy of "A Prologue to the Biography of the Reverend James Blair" by Edward L. Bond.
Handwritten notes and research about the British idealists.
Handwritten notes and research about Martin Buber.
Handwritten notes and research about Buddhism.
Handwritten notes about Rudolf Bultmann.
Research about George Bush's stance on religion.
Handwritten notes and research about John Calvin.
Handwritten notes about John Calvin; an examination about John Calvin taken by Livingston when he was a student.
Handwritten notes and research about the Christian gentleman.
Handwritten notes and research about Catholic modernism.
Handwritten notes about the Catholic Reformation.
Research about the Catholic Tubingen School.
Handwritten notes and research about Catholicism, fascism, and communism.
Handwritten notes about Catholicism and the French Revolution.
Handwritten notes about Catholicism and restauration.
Handwritten notes about Christian thinkers as guides to ethical choices.
Handwritten notes about Christianity in an Ecumenical Age.
Handwritten notes about the varieties of early Christianity.
Handwritten notes about Christianity.
Research about the Church and the Holocaust.
Handwritten notes and research about the historical Jesus.
Handwritten notes and research about Leo XIII and Pius XI.
Handwritten notes about S.T. Coleridge.
Handwritten notes and research comparing religions.
Research comparing religions.
Handwritten notes about Confucianism and Taoism.
Handwritten notes about the Council of Trent.
Course syllabi by Jeffrey Hensley at Yale University.
Handwritten notes and research about Charles Darwin.
Research about Charles Darwin.
Handwritten notes about Deism.
Handwritten notes about the development of dogma.
Handwritten notes about John Dewey.
The sub-series holds administrative files related to the establishment of Religious Studies, the Dean of the Undergraduate Program, curriculum reviews, and other matters at William and Mary; materials from committees and organizations of which Prof. Livingston was a member; materials from conferences he attended.
Various proposals for curriculum changes, including the final proposal from the Curriculum Review Steering Committee for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (1993) and the Proposal for a Faculty Assembly at the College of William and Mary from the Ad-Hoc Faculty Assembly Committee (1988), among others.
Correspondence and other materials from Livingston's time as Dean of the Undergraduate Program.
Email correspondence and other materials from the Nineteenth Century Theology Group of which Livingston was a member.
Correspondence and other materials from the Nineteenth Century Theology Group of which Livingston was a member.
Correspondence and other materials from the Nuclear Disarmament Study Group at the College of WIlliam and Mary of which Livingston was a member.
Correspondence, speeches, newsletters, and other materials from the Modernism Group of which Livingston was a member.
Correspondence concerning the 1973 reorganization of the student affairs division at the College of William and Mary.
Correspondence and other materials from the Committee on the Faculty Award for the Advancement of Scholarship, Alpha of Virginia, Phi Beta Kappa of which Livingston was a member.
Correspondence and other materials from the Committee on the Role of Religion in a Public University of which Livingston was a member.
Correspondence, meeting minutes, and other materials from the Committee on Judaic Studies, of which Livingston was a part concerning a $6,000 endowment to the Judaic Studies Department among other matters.
Correspondence, newspaper articles, and other materials concerning the establishment of the Religious Studies Department at the College of William and Mary.
Draft and final email of the letter to the Board of Visitors supporting the retention of former William & Mary president Gene Nichol.
Handwritten notes and other materials from the Church State and First Amendment conference in 1986.
Research about capital punishment and materials from the Texas Society to abolish Capital Punishment.
This series contains research material, lecture notes, and other material during Professor Livingston's tenure at the College of William and Mary as well as Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia. Some of the research topics discussed in this series include Walter Patel, George Tyrrell, and Mathew Arnold. The series also includes news clippings, correspondence, and president's committee files related to the Wren Cross controversy at the College of William and Mary in 2007.