Video: 2012 Year in Pictures
Take a look back at some of the people and events that enriched the HDS community in 2012.
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Jonathan Walton on Three Words of Caution in the Wake of Another Mass Killing
"I still believe the best defense against violence is a better offense of love."
Slideshow: Toni Morrison at HDS
The annual Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality was presented on December 6 by Toni Morrison, the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities, Emerita, Princeton University, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Presidential Medal of...
William Graham Receives Journal of Law and Religion Lifetime Achievement Award
The Journal of Law and Religion presented its 15th annual Lifetime Achievement Award to William A. Graham, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor and Murray A. Albertson Professor of Middle Eastern Studies, at the journal's 21st annual...
Video: Have Mercy: The Religious Dimensions of the Writings of Toni Morrison
Panelists Mara Willard, Jay Williams, Josslyn Luckett, and HDS professors Stephanie Paulsell and David Carrasco spoke on December 6 as part of the series "Have Mercy: The Religious Dimensions of the Writings of Toni Morrison." Toni Morrison, the Robert F...
Video: Goodness: Altruism and the Literary Imagination
The annual Ingersoll Lecture on Immortality was presented on December 6 by Toni Morrison, the Robert F. Goheen Professor in the Humanities, Emerita, Princeton University, and recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature and the Presidential Medal of...
Good, but Never Simple
In visit to HDS, Toni Morrison illuminates concepts of virtue, and its opposite.
David Hempton Awarded Outler Prize
Harvard Divinity School Dean David N. Hempton has been awarded the Albert C. Outler Prize by the American Society of Church History for his recent book, The Church in the Long Eighteenth Century (I.B. Tauris, 2011). The award is presented to the author of...
Leila Ahmed Wins Grawemeyer Award in Religion
HDS professor Leila Ahmed has been awarded the 2013 Grawemeyer Award in Religion for her recent book, "A Quiet Revolution."
Ronald F. Thiemann, 1946-2012
Ronald F. Thiemann, Bussey Professor of Theology and former dean of Harvard Divinity School, died on Thursday, November 29, 2012, at the age of 66. A noted scholar, theologian, teacher, and administrator, Thiemann was a leading voice in discussions about...
Slideshow: Ronald F. Thiemann
View a selection of photos of Ronald F. Thiemann, who passed away on November 29, 2012, at age 66. Thiemann was long a vital presence at Harvard Divinity School, from 1986, when he was appointed Dean and John Lord O'Brian Professor of Divinity, and in the...
Apocalypse Now? Hardly
HDS professor David Carrasco recently presented "Apocalypse Soon? How the World Ends (or Doesn't) in Religions of the World."
