Harvard Divinity School

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Andover Hall of Harvard Divinity School

The Harvard Divinity School (HDS) is the Faculty of Theology of the American private Harvard University in Boston , Massachusetts . The faculty was founded in 1816 and teaches across denominations and religions.

history

It has been possible to study theology there since Harvard University was founded. In 1805 Orthodox Calvinists founded their own seminary in Andover . In the founding deed of the HDS it was then stipulated that no commitment was required from teachers or students. Until 1880 the faculty was small: two to five professors taught around 20 students. From 1880 the faculty grew; under the influence of the university president Charles William Eliot , an uncritical liberalism was pushed back. Several professors who had studied in Germany were appointed and doctoral programs were set up . It worked with a Divinity school of the Episcopal Church and the Methodist faculty of Boston University . In 1967 the Boston Theological Institute was established in the greater Boston area, in which nine theological training institutions ( Anglicans , Methodists , Roman Catholic , Greek Orthodox and others) came together. In 1908 Harvard Theological Revue was founded.

In the middle of the 20th century the Harvard Divinity School expanded. Private donations made it possible to set up additional chairs, for example for Catholic theology, Jewish theology, Islam and Buddhism .

Personalities

Deans

• 1830 / 31–1839: John G. Palfrey (1796–1881), later member of the United States House of Representatives for Massachusetts
• 1870–1878: Oliver Stearns (1807–1885), practical theologian
• 1878–1900: Charles Carroll Everett (1828–1900)
• 1900–1906: Francis Greenwood Peabody (1847–1936)
• 1906–1922: William Wallace Fenn (1862–1932)
• 1922–1953: Willard Learoyd Sperry (1882–1954)
• 1955–1960: Douglas Horton (1891–1968)
• 1968-1974; 1975–1979: Krister Stendahl (1921–2008), Professor of the New Testament 1954–1984
• 1974-1975: Preston Williams
• 1979–1985: George Erik Rupp (* 1942)
• 1986–1998: Ronald Frank Thiemann (1946–2012), practical theologian
• 1998–2002: J. Bryan Hehir (* 1940), practical theologian
• 2002–2012: William A. Graham (* 1943), Islamic scholar
• since 2012: David N. Hempton (* 1952), church historian

University professor (selection, alphabetically)

• James Luther Adams (1901–1994), Professor of Christian Ethics 1956–1968
• Leila Ahmed (* 1940), professor of women's studies since 2003
• François Bovon (1938–2013), Professor of New Testament 1993–1998, 2001–2002.
• Harvey Cox (* 1929), professor of theology
• Frank M. Cross (1921–2012), Old Testament scholar
• Christopher Dawson (1889–1970), historian, professor of Roman Catholic studies 1958–1962
• Helmut Koester (1926–2016), New Testament scholar of German descent
• Kirsopp Lake (1872-1946), Professor of Church History 1914-1935
• Paul Lehmann (1906–1994), professor of Christian ethics 1956–1963
• Henri JM Nouwen (1932–1996), priest and psychologist
• Heiko Augustinus Oberman (1930–2001), church historian 1956–1966
• Raimon Panikkar (1918-2010), philosopher
• Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza (* 1938), feminist theologian
• Francis Schüssler Fiorenza (* 1941), Roman Catholic theologian and student of Karl Rahner and Johann Baptist Metz
• Wilfred Cantwell Smith (1916–2000), Director of the Center for the Study of World Religions 1964–1973
• Paul Tillich (1886–1965), Professor of Systematic Theology 1955–1962
• Cornel West (* 1953), Professor of African American Studies 1994–2002
• George Ernest Wright (1909–1974), Biblical archaeologist

Other personalities related to the HDS

• Horatio Alger (1832–1899), author, graduate 1860
• Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882), graduate (1825) and lecturer
• Peter Gomes (1942–2011), Baptist pastor, university professor and author
• Edward Everett Hale (1822–1909), Unitarian pastor and writer

literature

• Helmut Koester: Art. Harvard Divinity School. In: Gerhard Müller, Horst Balz , Gerhard Krause (eds.): Theologische Realenzyklopädie , Vol. 14. de Gruyter, Berlin 1985, pp. 469–472.

Web links

• hds.harvard.edu

Coordinates: 42 ° 22 '50.2 "  N , 71 ° 6' 46.4"  W.