American Decades

PRESIDENT, UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY,
NEW YORK

Christianity and Crisis.

John Coleman Bennett was born in Canada to American parents. In 1943 he became the Reinhold Niebuhr Professor of Social Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York; subsequently he was named dean of the seminary and then president in 1964. He was coeditor of the journal Christianity and Crisis and served as the vice-chairman of the Liberal party in New York City from 1955 to 1965. He spoke out extensively on issues of church/state relations, civil rights, and war. Among his publications are Christian Social Ethics in a Changing World (1966) and Foreign Policy in Christian Perspective(1966).