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Benjamin Dunning, Professor at Fordham University, discusses his book, Christ Without Adam: Subjectivity and Sexual Difference in the Philosopher's Paul. Trained in early Christianity as well as critical and feminist theory, Professor Dunning is...

Divinity Hall was rededicated, 174 years after its original dedication, with a celebration that took place in front of one of Harvard Divinity School's oldest buildings. Amidst the anxieties, toils, pleasures, dissipations, and competitions of life, in...

by Jahnabi Barooah Americans in new, charismatic evangelical churches need to work harder than Ghanaians in theologically similar settings to make God real. This is the provocative thesis that Tanya Marie Luhrmann put forward at Harvard Divinity School's...

Heresy. That's the way many in the Catholic and Protestant church hierarchies described the Coptic Christian literature discovered in Egypt during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries that has been called "Gnostic." For Harvard Divinity School professor...

Nearly 1,000 years ago, the Western and Eastern branches of Christianity split. Despite decades of attempts there has yet to be reconciliation. But, on Friday, Pope Francis will visit with the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church in a historic meeting...

Martin Luther did more than just serve as a catalyst for the Reformation. By nailing his 95 theses to the door of a Wittenberg, Germany, church in 1517, he became the world's first mass media figure and launched a new form of theological writing, argues...

Sometimes a profession quietly chooses you, instead of the other way around. For Harvard Divinity School student Elizabeth Smith Leavitt, MDiv '09—originally bound for law school, after a challenging year as an English as a Second Language tutor through...

"We cannot profess our solidarity with those who are oppressed when we are unwilling to confront the oppressor." Morning Prayers at Harvard's Memorial Church on September 22 were delivered by David N. Hempton, Dean of the Faculty of Divinity, Alonzo L...

On February 27, Afe Adogame, Maxwell M. Upson Professor of Religion and Society at Princeton Theological seminary and leading scholar of the African diaspora, delivered the Hackett Lecture in Global Christianity. This lecture examined how and to what...

The Harvard Alumni Association announced that HDS Professor Preston N. Williams, PhD ’67, will receive the 2021 Harvard Medal. Williams, Houghton Professor of Theology and Contemporary Change Emeritus, was the first tenured African American faculty member...

Stephanie Paulsell has been appointed Associate Dean for Ministerial Studies and Senior Lecturer on Ministry, effective July 1, 2003. She replaces Nancy Richardson, who is beginning a phased retirement but will continue to teach at HDS. "We are very...

Though Harvard’s many serene campuses can be fairly quiet during the summer, such is not the case at Harvard Divinity School. In early June, students flock to HDS to participate in the Summer Language Program (SLP), an intensive, two-month program that...