Yale Divinity School
Type | Private |
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Established | 1822 |
Parent institution | Yale University |
Dean | Gregory E. Sterling |
Students | 289[1] |
Location | , U.S. 41°19′24″N 72°55′17″W / 41.32333°N 72.92139°W |
Website | divinity |
Yale Divinity School (YDS) is one of the twelve graduate and professional schools of Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut.
History
Theological education was the earliest academic purpose of Yale University. When
After a significant period of enrollment decline, the school began fundraising from alumni for new faculty and facilities.
In May 2016, Andover Newton Theological School president Martin Copenhaver announced that Andover Newton would begin a process of formal affiliation with the Divinity School over the next two years. In the 2016–17 academic year, a cohort of faculty relocated to New Haven teaching students and launching pilot initiatives focused on congregational ministry education, while Andover Newton continued to operate in Massachusetts over the next two years. In July 2017, a formal affiliation was signed, resulting in smaller Andover Newton functioning as a unit within Yale Divinity School, similar to its arrangement with Berkeley.[6]
In October 2020, YDS received a $1 million grant from the Lilly Endowment as part of the foundation's Thriving Congregations Initiative to fund a program entitled, "Reimagining Church: New Models for the 21st Century." Reimagining Church will involve 40 congregations in Connecticut as well as YDS students, faculty, and staff over a five-year period.[7]
In November 2020, the Yale Divinity School Women's Center revived the publication of The Voice Journal of Literary and Theological Ideas, a feminist journal that initially ran from 1996 to 2002.[8]
Degrees
Yale Divinity School is accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada (ATS)[9] and approved by ATS to grant the following degrees:
- Master of Divinity (M.Div.)
- Master of Arts in Religion (M.A.R.)
- Master of Sacred Theology (S.T.M.)
Students pursuing an M.A.R. can choose between a comprehensive and concentrated program. The following concentrations are offered:[10]
- Hebrew Bible
- Second Temple Judaism
- New Testament
- Theology
- Philosophical Theology
- Practical Theology
- Ethics
- History of Christianity
- World Christianity/Missions
- Liturgical Studies
- Religion & the Arts
- Asian Religions
- Black Religion in the African Diaspora
- Latinx & Latin American Christianity
- Religion & Ecology
- Women’s/Gender/Sexuality Studies
Students in any degree program at Yale Divinity School can also earn certificates in any of the following areas:[11]
- Lutheran Studies
- Reformed Studies
- Anglican Studies
- Catholic Lay Ministerial Studies
- United Methodist Studies
- Black Church Studies
- Andover Newton Seminary (non-degree diploma)
- Educational Leadership and Ministry
Leadership
Gregory Sterling, a New Testament scholar and Church of Christ pastor, has been the dean of the divinity school since 2012, succeeding New Testament scholar Harold W. Attridge, who returned to teaching as a Sterling Professor upon completing two five-year terms as dean.[12] The leaders of the affiliated seminaries are Andrew McGowan, Dean and President of Berkeley Divinity School, and Sarah Drummond, Founding Dean of Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School. Organist Martin Jean is director of the Institute of Sacred Music.
Deans of Yale Divinity School
Name | Years Served | Academic Field | Denomination |
---|---|---|---|
Gregory E. Sterling[13] | 2012–Present | New Testament | Churches of Christ |
Harold W. Attridge | 2002-2012 | New Testament | Catholic |
Rebecca Chopp[14] | 2001-2002 | Theology | Methodist |
Harry B. Adams (acting dean) | 2000-2001 | Pastoral Theology | |
Richard J. Wood[15][16] | 1996-2000 | Philosophy | Quaker |
Thomas Ogletree[17] | 1990-1996 | Ethics | Methodist |
Aidan Kavanagh (acting dean) | 1989-1990 | Liturgics | Catholic |
Leander Keck | 1979-1989 | New Testament | Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) |
Colin W. Williams | 1969-1979 | Ethics | Methodist |
Robert Clyde Johnson | 1963-1969 | Presbyterian | |
Charles Forman (acting dean) | 1961-1963 | ||
Liston Pope | 1949-1962 | Ethics | Congregationalist |
Luther Allan Weigle[18]
|
1928-1949 | Christian Education | Lutheran/Congregationalist |
Charles Reynolds Brown | 1911-1928 | Theology | Congregationalist |
Edward Lewis Curtis (acting dean) | 1905-1911 | ||
Frank Knight Sanders | 1901-1905 | Semitics | Congregationalist |
George Park Fisher | 1895-1901 | Church History | Congregationalist |
George Edward Day[19] | 1888-1895 | Hebrew | Congregationalist |
Campus
When the department was organized as a school in 1869, it was moved to a campus across from the northwest corner of the
In 1929, the trustees of the estate of lawyer
A $49-million renovation of Sterling Divinity Quadrangle was completed in 2003. Sterling Divinity Quadrangle contains academic buildings, Marquand Chapel, and graduate student housing for YDS students.[22]
Yale Divinity School is currently planning the construction of the Living Village, a zero-waste, sustainable living community that will house 155 YDS students.[23]
Notable alumni
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- Diogenes Allen (B.D. 1959)
- Ian Barbour (B.D. 1956)
- Kate Bowler (M.A.R. 2005)
- Gregory A. Boyd(M.Div. 1982)
- Will D. Campbell (B.D. 1952)
- Orishatukeh Faduma (B.D. 1894, graduate study 1895)
- William Ragsdale Cannon (B.D. 1940; Ph.D. 1942), Professor and Dean, Candler School of Theology; Bishop of the United Methodist Church.
- Donald Eric Capps, (B.D. 1963; S.T.M., 1965), scholar of Pastoral Theology
- Roy Clyde Clark, (B.D. 1944), Bishop of the United Methodist Church
- William Sloane Coffin (B.D. 1956)
- United States Senatorfrom Delaware
- Harvey Cox (B.D. 1955), theologian and Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School (1965–2009)
- Zebulon Crocker
- Shimer College[24]
- Michael Curry (M.Div. 1978), Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church (United States)
- United States Senatorfrom Missouri
- Walter Fauntroy, (B.D. 1958), Founding Member - Congressional Black Caucus
- David F. Ford (S.T.M.), Regius Professor of Divinity Emeritus at the University of Cambridge[25]
- Milton Gaither (M.A.R. 1996), historian of American education[26]
- The Methodist Church
- Tom Vaughn (Doctorate in theology), jazz musician and Episcopal priest
- Leroy Gilbert (S.T.M. 1979)
- Gary Hart (B.D. 1961)
- Stanley Hauerwas (B.D. 1965)
- Richard B. Hays (M.Div. 1977)
- Serene Jones (M.Div. 1985) President of Union Theological Seminary (New_York_City)
- Allen Kannapell (M.Div. 1997), bishop suffragan of the Anglican Diocese of the Great Lakes
- Rena Karefa-Smart (B.D. 1945), first Black woman graduate of Yale Divinity
- Sen Katayama
- Ernest W. Lefever (1945), foreign affairs expert and founder of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.[27]
- Sallie McFague (B.D. 1959)
- Candida Moss (M.A.R. 2002)
- Otis Moss III (M.Div. 1995), Pastor of Trinity Church, Chicago
- Reinhold Niebuhr (B.D. 1914, M.A. 1915), Protestant theologian and public intellectual[28]
- Richard T. Nolan(M.A. 1967)
- Douglas Oldenburg (S.T.M. 1961), President Emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary, Presbyterian (USA) pastor.
- Julie Faith Parker
- William H. Poteat (B.D. 1944)
- Clark V. Poling (1936)
- Peter L. Pond, human rights activist and philanthropist.[29]
- Adam Clayton Powell, Sr.(attended 1895–1896)
- George Rupp
- Father V.C. Samuel(PhD. 1957) Indian Christian Theologian and Historian.
- Ron Sider
- John Silber[citation needed]
- John Shelby Spong[citation needed]
- Amos Alonzo Stagg
- Rufus W. Stimson (B.D., 1897), Professor of English and President of the University of Connecticut[30]
- Barbara Brown Taylor (M.Div. 1976)
- Roy M. Terry (B.D. 1942)
- Krista Tippett (M.Div. 1994)
- R. A. Torrey (B.D. 1878)
- John W. Traphagan (M.A.R. 1986), professor of Religious Studies and Anthropology, University of Texas at Austin
- Glenn M. Wagner (M.Div. 1978)
- Chester Wickwire (B.D. 1946)
- Parker T. Williamson (M.Phil.)
- William Willimon(M.Div. 1971)
Notable past professors
Former faculty: 20th–21st centuries
- Roland Bainton
- Brevard Childs
- Rebecca Chopp
- Adela Yarbro Collins, 2000–2015
- Jerome Davis
- Margaret Farley
- Hans Wilhelm Frei
- Paul L. Holmer
- Serene Jones
- David Kelsey
- Kenneth Scott Latourette
- George Lindbeck
- Sallie McFague[citation needed]
- Douglas Clyde Macintosh
- Abraham Malherbe
- Reinhold Niebuhr
- H. Richard Niebuhr
- Henri Nouwen, 1971–1981
- Liston Pope (Dean)
- Letty M. Russell (1974–2001)
- Lamin Sanneh
- Emilie Townes
- Denys Turner
- Nicholas Wolterstorff
- Henry Burt Wright (1877-1923)
Former faculty: 19th century
Current faculty (ca. 2019)
- Harold W. Attridge
- Teresa Berger
- John J. Collins
- Michal Beth Dinkler
- John E. Hare
- Erika Helgen
- Jennifer A. Herdt
- Willie James Jennings
- Yii-Jan Lin
- Eboni Marshall Turman
- Donyelle McCray
- Andrew McGowan
- Joyce Mercer
- Mary Clark Moschella
- Laura Nasrallah
- Sally M. Promey
- Melanie Ross
- Janet Ruffing
- Carolyn J. Sharp
- Chloë Starr
- Kathryn Tanner
- Gabrielle Thomas
- Linn Tonstad
- Jacqueline Vayntrub
- Miroslav Volf
- Tisa Wenger
- Christian Wiman
- Almeda M. Wright
See also
- General Theological Seminary, a separate New Haven institution now located in New York City
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