Evangelical and Reformed Church - Famous Members

Famous Members

The list includes members of United Church of Christ congregations of Evangelical and Reformed heritage.

  • Donald Bloesch
  • Walter Brueggemann
  • Leon Jaworski
  • John Williamson Nevin
  • Reinhold Niebuhr
  • Richard Niebuhr
  • Philip Schaff
  • Richard Schweiker
  • Bud Shuster
  • Paul Tillich
  • Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben
  • John Winebrenner

United States President Theodore Roosevelt attended Washington D.C.'s Grace Reformed Church, an Evangelical and Reformed congregation. Roosevelt originally belonged to the Reformed Church in America (RCA), a Dutch-American group. Since there were no RCA congregations in Washington, he chose Grace Reformed as perhaps the church most similar liturgically and theologically to Dutch Calvinism.

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