Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Hunter, Edwina, 1932 - 2017 Pacific School of Religion Union Theological Seminary of New York American Baptist Seminary of the West Georgetown College, KY Academy of Homiletics
- Abstract:
- Extent:
- 3 linear feet (2 record boxes, 1 5” box, 3 cassette boxes)
- Language:
- Preferred citation:
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Edwina Hunter Collection. Graduate Theological Union
Background
- Scope and content:
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Materials include her writings, edited works, lectures, audio cassettes, course descriptions, activities, research, and inspirational sources.
- Biographical / historical:
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Edwina Hunter (April 4, 1932 - November 10, 2017) was a national authority on homiletics, the art of preaching, and especially on women and intercultural preachers. Born in Louisiana, she attended a local Baptist church but reported that she was inspired by a gifted woman minister from a nearby Presbyterian church. At the age of 12, she felt a call to the ministry. Hunter received her BA from Louisiana College; MRE from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary; MDiv, Pacific School of Religion; and a MA and PhD from the School of Speech at Northwestern University. She went on to teach at Georgetown College, KY, for 17 years and for one year at the University of South Florida. Moving across the country, she was ordained an American Baptist minister in 1979, served several Baptist churches as minister, and taught at American Baptist Seminary of the West. She became Carl Patton Professor of Preaching at Pacific School of Religion in 1988 and became the Joe R. Engle Professor of Preaching at Union Theological School of Religion in New York in 1990. Hunter was editor with David Albert Farmer of And Blessed Is She: Sermons by Women, 1989, and wrote articles on a women’s and intercultural perspective on sermons. An early woman member of the Academy of Homiletics, she served as its president in 1991 and received a Lifetime Achievement award in 2005. Many GTU collections contain sermons. Here are a few: Rober McAfee Brown, GTU 2007-6-01; Thomas Starr King, TU 93-5-01; Frederick Winslow Hatch, GTU 2011-1-01; Douglas G. Adams, GTU 2008-1-01; The Sunday Before, GTU 97-5-02; Claiborne M. Hill, GTU 2005-1-01.
- Acquisition information:
- Four boxes of materials from Edwina Hunter were donated by her daughter Wendy Jo Snyder on February 13, 2018.
Indexed terms
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Public access allowed.
- Terms of access:
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Copyright has not been assigned to The Graduate Theological Union. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of The Graduate Theological Union as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.
- Preferred citation:
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Edwina Hunter Collection. Graduate Theological Union
- Location of this collection:
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2400 Ridge RoadBerkeley, CA 94709, US
- Contact:
- (510) 649-2523/2501