Karen King

HDS Hollis Professor of Divinity Karen King studies texts from Christianity’s first centuries to reinterpret the history of the early church.

Karen King, Hollis Professor of Divinity at HDS, delivered the following remarks at Morning Prayers in Harvard's Memorial Church on October 2, 2018.

It's a question that many faculty members wrestle with no matter at what school or university they may find work: To speak or not to speak? Francis X. Clooney, S.J., Professor of Comparative Theology and director of the Center for the Study of World...

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...