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David S. Chen (陳皙宗牧師)

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David S. Chen (陳皙宗牧師)

Identity Snapshot

  • English: David S. Chen
  • Chinese: 陳皙宗牧師
  • Era: 1924
  • Geography: 台灣 台北
  • Core roles: professor, educator
  • Source: TAH Foundation Who’s Who

Education

  • 台灣神學院 — 1947
  • Knox College, Canada — 1954 — 神學士
  • Princeton Theological Seminary, NJ — 1955 — 神學碩士
  • Union Theological Seminary, NY — 1965 — 神學碩士
  • Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA — 1968 — Th.D. 神學博士

Employment

  • 台灣神學院 — 1957-71 — 教授、院長
  • The First Reformed Church in Ridgewood, N.J. — 1971-1991 — 牧會

Family

Role in the Community

From the movement corpus (primary material):

  • Among the earliest Taiwanese Americans. 朱真一’s study of early postwar Taiwanese women who studied in North America, drawing on the Shaw family book, records 陳皙宗牧師 (Rev. David S. C. Chen, Th.D.), b. 1924, graduated 台灣神學院 1947, went to Canada for further study in 1948 then moved to the U.S., later pastoring in Missouri — “應是最早期的台美人之一”. 朱真一
  • Marriage to 林淑卿 (1954). The same corpus record corroborates the wife link: 林淑卿 (純德女中音樂專修科, 淡江英專; then Royal Conservatory of Music of Toronto, then School of Sacred Music at Union Seminary NY, M.A. 1966) married 陳皙宗 in 1954 while both studied in North America.
  • Author. Co-author (with 孫芝君) of the 2008 biography 《蕭安居牧師生平及家譜 / Life And Family History of Rev. An-Ku Shaw》, preserved in the corpus. 陳皙宗 孫芝君
  • Source in a 228 memoir. In 陳孟絹’s biography of 陳能通 (淡水中學校長, who sheltered students during 228), 陳皙宗牧師 — described as 蕭美德的外甥 (nephew of 蕭美德) — is quoted describing 陳能通 as a cool, studious, gentle Christian thinker: 帶學生避禍228～淡水中學校長陳能通 (民報 2016-07-06). The kinship statement is consistent with his co-authorship of the 蕭安居牧師 family history above.
  • Named in a TA arts record. Listed among the interviewees of the corpus record on the film “The Sisterhood of Night” and Catherine Huang, alongside David T. K. Chen and Marilyn Fu. “The Sisterhood of Night” movie: Catherine Huang

HOLD: corpus (ourjourneys270, citing the Shaw family book) says he left for Canada in 1948; the TAH directory lists Knox College, Canada 1954 — dates not merged. HOLD: corpus gives the middle-initial form “David S. C. Chen” vs the page’s “David S. Chen” — not merged. HOLD: the corpus records [[works/taiwaneseamericanhistory-org/376-david-chen-e9-99-b3-e7-ab-8b-e5-81-89-201504|TAH #376 David Chen 陳立偉]], TACL 台語教學記錄 (2012) and Marilyn Fu record carry an entity backlink to this page, but each also links David T. K. Chen and none’s body text names 陳皙宗 — treated as ambiguous “David Chen” linkage, not absorbed.

  • Corpus grep (re-run 2026-09-22, slice 09212352-5): hits are exactly the records already absorbed above (ourjourneys270, 942, whos876, sisterhood-of-night, plus the ambiguous 376/TACL links under HOLD); no new absorbable material (SKIP-with-reason, page saturated).
  • Corpus grep (re-run 2026-09-23, slice 09221000-3): hit set identical (ourjourneys270, 942, whos876, sisterhood-of-night, index, plus the ambiguous 376/TACL links under HOLD); nothing new absorbable — SKIP-with-reason, page saturated.
  • Corpus grep (2026-09-24, slice 09230500-7): one new hit — TJJ memoir 帶學生避禍228/陳能通 (1fa146177b3547b7) names 陳皙宗牧師 as 蕭美德的外甥 and quotes him; absorbed above. Remaining hit set (whos876, 942, ourjourneys270) unchanged.
  • Corpus grep (2026-10-10, slice 10081300-25): hit set identical (whos876, 942, ourjourneys270, sisterhood-of-night, index, sources, plus ambiguous 376/TACL/Marilyn-Fu links under HOLD); ourjourneys270 also names 蕭永真 (Enchin Shaw Chen, m. 陳哲仁) — a different family line, not absorbable here. Nothing new — SKIP-with-reason, page saturated.
  • Corpus grep (2026-10-11, slice 10101000-12): hit set identical (TJJ 228 memoir 帶學生避禍228/陳能通, sources index, works index, 376, 942, ourjourneys270, whos876, TACL, Marilyn Fu, sisterhood-of-night); all named-subject hits already absorbed or under HOLD. Nothing new — SKIP-with-reason, page saturated.
  • Corpus grep (2026-10-12, slice 10110700-14): 皙宗 hits = whos876, 942, ourjourneys270, TJJ 228 memoir, works/sources indexes — all already absorbed or under HOLD; surname-only check found no additional name variants. Nothing new — SKIP-with-reason, page saturated.
  • Corpus grep (2026-10-13, slice 10120900-31): 皙宗/陳皙宗/David S. C. Chen hits = whos876, 942, ourjourneys270, TJJ 228 memoir, sisterhood-of-night, works/sources indexes, plus ambiguous 376/TACL/Marilyn-Fu links under HOLD — identical set to prior rounds; all named-subject hits already absorbed. Nothing new — SKIP-with-reason, page saturated.

Sources

Network

  • |PCT — TAH Who’s Who

  • Dr. Lin: soft-info test note

  • soft-info test note

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