Theology

Evolution is an organizing principle of the living world. While competition is integral to evolution, cooperation can be seen as the master architect of biological complexity, language, and culture. Human beings have emerged from this evolutionary process...

HDS Professor of Philosophy and Theology David Lamberth gives the lecture "James's Barking Crab: Becoming a Person in a Mechanistic Universe," which aired on WBUR's World of Ideas.

Professor Todne Thomas writes about Rev. Dr. James H. Cone, the founder of Black Liberation Theology, who died in April.

MDiv candidates Lindsey Franklin and Denson Staples were selected by their student colleagues, faculty, and staff as the class speakers for HDS Commencement 2018. The following remarks were delivered by Franklin and Staples at the Diploma Awarding...

Larycia Hawkins, Abd el-Kader Visiting Faculty Fellow at University of Virginia, discussed the meaning of solidarity in the context of political and theological spaces during the 2017 Greeley Lecture for Peace and Social Justice.

For Steven Jungkeit, balance is key: balance of his twin vocations as a Congregationalist minister and a professor of critical theory and ethics at Harvard Divinity School. Bringing these two elements together has produced some interesting results, such...

HDS student David Waters didn't want to simply go to mass, "soak up the awesomeness," and leave. He wanted to give back. So now he's teaching theology to first graders at his Boston parish.

Matthew L. Potts, Assistant Professor of Ministry Studies at HDS, discusses his recent book, Cormac McCarthy and the Signs of Sacrament: Literature, Theology, and the Moral of Stories. Amy Hollywood, Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies at...

On August 31, legendary professor Harvey Cox delivered the 2015 Convocation address. Titled "The Babylonian Captivity of Theology," Cox encouraged his fellow faculty members and Harvard Divinity School graduate students to be troublemakers. If theology is...

Professor Harvey Cox wants HDS students and his fellow faculty members to be troublemakers. After all, it's part of the job. "Theology by its very nature is, or should be, troublesome. If theology is doing its job applying the teachings of the prophets...