Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge
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The Cambridge Faculty of Divinity is the
History
The first professorship instituted at the university, the
Beginning in 1879, the Faculty of Divinity was housed in the Selwyn Divinity School, constructed by Basil Champneys. Now known as The Old Divinity School, the building belongs to St John's College.[4] Since 2001, the Faculty has been situated on the university's Sidgwick Site,[5] in the west of the city.[6]
Professorships
Since the 16th century, the University of Cambridge has seen the institution of numerous professorships in different subject areas, beginning with divinity, civil law, physics, Hebrew, and Greek.
The established chairs in the Faculty of Divinity include the following:
- Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity(1502)
- Regius Professor of Divinity (1540)
- Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity(1777), combined in 1934 from the Norrisian Professor (since 1780) and the Hulsean Professor (since 1860)
- Ely Professor of Divinity (1889)
Academics
The Faculty of Divinity is part of the
Subject areas
Thematic and disciplinary areas of teaching and research in the Faculty of Divinity:[9]
- Old Testament
- New Testament
- Christian Theology
- History of Christianity
- Philosophy of Religion
- Religious Studies
- Late antiquity
- Hebrew, Jewish, Early Christian
- World Christianities
- Scriptural languages
Lectures series
Since 1820, the Faculty of Divinity has hosted
- Hulsean Lectures
- Jeremie Lecture
- Stanton Lectures
- Tyrwhitt Lecture
- Yerushah Lecture
Reputation and rankings
For centuries the Faculty of Divinity at Cambridge, like the Faculty of Theology and Religion at the University of Oxford, has been prominent in theological studies not only in the United Kingdom but also across the globe.
As
Notable senior members
The following are notable past and present senior members of the Faculty of Divinity.[13]
-
Joseph Barber Lightfoot
Past
- John Arrowsmith
- Peter Baro
- Joseph Beaumont
- Robert Beaumont
- Richard Bentley
- James Bethune-Baker
- John James Blunt
- Zachary Brooke
- Edward Harold Browne
- Martin Bucer
- William Buckmaster
- George Bullock
- Francis Crawford Burkitt
- John Burnaby
- Thomas Jackson Calvert
- Thomas Cartwright
- William Chaderton
- Henry Chadwick
- Eamon Duffy
- Frederick Henry Chase
- Sarah Coakley
- Samuel Collins
- George Elwes Corrie
- C. H. Dodd
- Charles John Ellicott
- Desiderius Erasmus
- James Fawcett
- John Fisher
- David Ford
- Wiliam Glyn
- Humphrey Gower
- John Green
- Peter Gunning
- John Hey
- Richard Holdsworth
- John Banks Hollingworth
- Morna D. Hooker
- Fenton John Anthony Hort
- Matthew Hutton
- William Ralph Inge
- Robert Jenkin
- James Amiraux Jeremie
- John Kaye
- Alexander Francis Kirkpatrick
- G. H. Lampe
- Nicholas Lash
- Judith Lieu
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot
- Richard Love
- Joseph Rawson Lumby
- Donald MacKinnon
- John Madew
- John Mainwaring
- Fred Shipley Marsh
- Herbert Marsh
- Arthur James Mason
- Charles F. D. Moule
- Handley Carr Glyn Moule
- Alexander Nairne
- Dennis Eric Nineham
- Alfred Ollivant
- John Overall
- John Pearson
- John James Stewart Perowne
- James Pilkington
- Leonard Pilkington
- Thomas Playfere
- Arthur Michael Ramsey
- Michael Ramsey
- John Randolph
- Edward Craddock Ratcliffe
- Charles Earle Raven
- John Redman (professor)
- John Richardson
- Nicholas Ridley
- Joseph Armitage Robinson
- J. A. T. Robinson
- Thomas Rutherforth
- Herbert Edward Ryle
- Thomas Sedgwick
- William Selwyn
- Janet Soskice
- Graham N. Stanton
- Vincent Henry Stanton
- George Christopher Stead
- John Still
- Charles Anthony Swainson
- Henry Barclay Swete
- Stephen Sykes
- William Telfer
- Anthony Tuckney
- Denys Alan Turner
- Thomas Turton
- Samuel Ward
- Richard Watson
- William Whitaker
- John Whitgift
- Ralph Widdrington
- Brooke Foss Westcott
- John Young
Present
References
- ^ A brief history of theology at Cambridge Archived 2009-04-07 at the Wayback Machine, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge,
- ^ 800 Years of History: Cambridge through the Centuries Archived 2009-05-24 at the Wayback Machine, University of Cambridge.
- ^ Introductory lecture, Divinity faculty, October 2008
- ^ "The Divinity School, Cambridge, by Basil Champneys". Victorian Web.
- ^ Official Map:Sidgwick Site, University of Cambridge.
- ^ plaque, Faculty of Divinity building
- ^ The Bachelor of Theology for Ministry (BTh), Cambridge Theological Foundation, University of Cambridge.
- ^ The undergraduate Tripos Archived 2012-07-24 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Subject areas, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge.
- ^ "QS World University Rankings® 2019". topuniversities.com. Retrieved 21 March 2019.
- ^ "Theology & religious studies (2018)". The Complete University Guide.
- ^ "Religious studies and theology (2018)". The Guardian.
- ^ Staff, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge.
Bibliography
David M. Thompson, Cambridge Theology in the Nineteenth Century: Enquiry, Controversy and Truth (London: Ashgate, 2008).