Search

Every Friday for two hours, 24 Christian, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, Buddhist, Pagan, and spiritual or not-religiously-identified HDS students gather for "America's Religious Pluralism: A Case Studies Approach," a seminar co-taught by HDS professor Diana Eck...

Douglas L. Gragg has been appointed the new librarian of Andover-Harvard Theological Library. Gragg comes to HDS from Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary, where, since 2005, he has been director of library and information technology services and...

This feature is part of an HDS Communications interview series offering students a closer look at selected upcoming courses. Below, we chat with Hollis Professor of Divinity Emeritus Harvey Cox about his fall 2017 class “Pope Francis: His ‘Theology of the...

In conjunction with the HDS Committee on Racial Justice and Healing and in cooperation with the courses "Theories and Methods in the Study of Religion" (T&M) and "Introduction to Ministry Studies" (IMS), Professors David Holland and Matthew Potts hosted a...

Preston Williams has often been first: the first tenured African American member of the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) faculty; the first African American president of the Society of Christian Ethics; the founding director of Harvard's W.E.B. DuBois...

Mark U. Edwards, Jr., a former professor of the History of Christianity at HDS from 1987 to 1994, and acting dean of the School for eight months in 1990-91, has been appointed associate dean for academic affairs and special programs. He took over from...

It is possible that Jerry Lewis—the American comedian and entertainer—does not know what has become of his old six-screen cinema on Crescent Avenue in Brockton, Massachusetts. For nearly six years now, the weathered building—tucked near the outer edge of...

Two hundred years ago, on May 5, 1819, Unitarian minister William Ellery Channing spoke at a Baltimore church and delivered what would be described nearly two centuries later as probably the most important Unitarian sermon ever preached anywhere. Now, the...

David Hysong, MDiv ’15, finished his master’s degree in intellectual history in 2011 and found himself with a year’s lag time before he planned to enter the U.S. Navy. He was young, good looking, and smart. Most people in his position would probably have...

In the spring of 2013, Cary Dabney found an envelope from Harvard Divinity School in his mailbox. The first member of his family to attend college, Dabney prepared himself for disappointment. He turned to his son—one of his six children—and joked that he...

When HDS Professor Andrew Teeter was in college, he uncovered a fascination with the Hebrew Bible. He poured himself into his study of ancient Greek and Hebrew, even taking a summer job working the graveyard shift so he could resuscitate dead languages...

On February 20, Donald Trump resoundingly won the South Carolina Republican primary and reinforced his position as the leading GOP candidate for president. Exit polling showed that evangelicals accounted for 72 percent of the vote (up from 65 percent four...