If you asked what percentage of Seminary, and
Divinity school faculties are secretly atheist, and agnostics, you would sh1t a brick.
To describe
the Divinity School faculty's perception of the problem in this way is to say little more than that it participated in the Social Gospel movement which was gaining wide influence at the time.
Not exact matches
Can you imagine the disdain and contempt (rightfully earned) with which the other
faculty must treat the
divinity school.
But then again, Philistines can be found anywhere, including the
faculty of
divinity schools.
This fall she joins the
faculty of Vanderbilt
Divinity School in Nashville.
My first strong sense that there was a wide and growing gap between the discipline of New Testament studies and its intended purposes came after I joined the
faculty at Yale
Divinity School.
When Rauschenbusch became ill and lost some of his hearing, he accepted an invitation to become a professor on the German
faculty, and later the English
faculty, of what became Colgate Rochester
Divinity School.
The fact that other members of the
Divinity faculty and their colleagues in other theological
schools who had read the book felt likewise lessened the embarrassment, but it hardly lessened the irritation.
There have been a few changes — Hartford and Johns Hopkins have faded, Emory and Fuller have emerged, and far fewer
faculty, especially Roman Catholics, are trained in Europe — but every program on the list still is located in a seminary, a religiously related university or a university that has a
divinity school.
One university
divinity school dean told me that he himself values the writing his
faculty does for laypeople in the church, but tenure decisions are made by a universitywide committee, and chemists, economists and other scholars will dismiss more popular writing as «obviously not scholarship.»
When I accepted the invitation to join the
faculty of the Episcopal
Divinity School in Cambridge I had two compelling reasons: Aware of the Vatican's repression and removal of creative theologians in West German universities, I anticipated a similar development in the U.S. I made therefore a conscious decision not to remain in an academic situation where I would have to spend the rest of my career fighting ecclesiastical backlash.
In informal
faculty conversation afterward, the question was bantered whether the
divinity school was «open» enough to admit an atheist to the
faculty.
At a
faculty meeting at yet another university - related
divinity school, a new
faculty member was accepted after he had made it emphatically clear that he would never let his personal faith impinge upon his teaching and scholarship.
This book grows out of my experience teaching theology in a university
divinity school that has no organic relation to any Christian denomination, was historically associated with the Reformed, in contrast to Lutheran or Anabaptist, branch of the Protestant movement, and has now become thoroughly interconfessional in both student body and
faculty.
Sarah Coakley came to Harvard in 1993, hired as part of then - dean Ronald Thiemann's plan to bring more religiously committed
faculty to liar - yard
Divinity School.
It is a pleasure to recall the gracious hospitality and the thoughtful attention given by President Edwin McNeill Poteat and the
faculty, students, and alumni of Colgate - Rochester
Divinity School, when the lectures were given at Easter time in 1947.
The
faculty of two esteemed
divinity schools have been asked to use more inclusive language to talk about God in their classrooms.
Another important event was the coming of Hartshorne to the philosophy
faculty in 1928 and his eventual close association with the work of the
Divinity School.
German theological
faculties are thus much more similar to sophisticated denominational seminaries than they are to American
divinity schools at private universities.
Appointed to the
faculty of Colgate Rochester
Divinity School where he would soon assume the school's chair of historical theology, Hamilton established himself by frequently contributing to theological journals and writing Reader's Guides to the Gospels and short books on theological anthropology, including the well - received New Essence of Christi
School where he would soon assume the
school's chair of historical theology, Hamilton established himself by frequently contributing to theological journals and writing Reader's Guides to the Gospels and short books on theological anthropology, including the well - received New Essence of Christi
school's chair of historical theology, Hamilton established himself by frequently contributing to theological journals and writing Reader's Guides to the Gospels and short books on theological anthropology, including the well - received New Essence of Christianity.
Writing on Renewal Dynamics, the weblog of the
faculty of Regent University
Divinity School, he describes the development of the idea that middle American Christians were anti-intellectual, beginning with Richard Hofstadter's....
He is co-founder of the Evangelical Missiological Society, author of countless missiology books, and professor emeritus at Trinity Evangelical
Divinity School where I also serve on
faculty.
I had only one parish, in Detroit, where I served as pastor after my graduation from the Yale
Divinity School in 1915 until my appointment to the
faculty of Union Seminary in 1928.
[Sidney E. Mead received his Ph. D. at University of Chicago
Divinity School and was a member of the
faculty there from 1941 to 1960.
[Roland H. Bainton joined the
faculty of the Yale
Divinity School in 1920 and remained there until his retirement as Titus Street Professor of Ecclesiastical History in 1962.
A superb interdisciplinary
faculty that now includes more than 40 university representatives from the biological sciences, the social sciences, humanities, the law
school, the business
school and the
divinity school.