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June 25, 2023

Jacob K. Olupona Professor of African Religious Traditions at HDS, discusses African Religions and education.

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Harvard Divinity’s 2023 Summer Reading List

June 21, 2023

We’ve made it! Summer is finally here. As we leave the hectic and hurried pace of the most recent academic year behind, we look forward to slower and longer days, warmer weather, and, of course, summer reading lists!... Read more about Harvard Divinity’s 2023 Summer Reading List

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Paul D. Hanson, Professor Emeritus, Dies

June 20, 2023

Paul D. Hanson, Florence Corliss Lamont Professor of Divinity Emeritus at Harvard Divinity School, died June 9, 2023, at the age of 83.... Read more about Paul D. Hanson, Professor Emeritus, Dies

Festschrift for Francis X. Clooney, SJ

June 13, 2023

The Catholic Theological Society of America announced that the current president of the CTSA and HDS Professor Francis X. Clooney, SJ, will have a Festschrift published in his honor in late 2023. Co-editors Axel Takacs, ThD '19, and Joseph Kimmel, MDiv '16, have worked with 44 contributors over the past two years on an edited volume in Professor Clooney's honor. It will be published with Wiley-Blackwell and available at the American Academy of Religion annual gathering later in 2023.

Creaturely Migrations on a Breathing Planet

June 8, 2023

David Abram, Senior Visiting Scholar in Ecology and Natural Philosophy at the Center for the Study of World Religions, conjures the impossible movements of Alaskan salmon, sandhill cranes, and monarch butterflies on their annual migrations, marveling at the reciprocal interactions that guide these creatures across the wider body of the Earth.

Shurden Lecture Takes on the ‘Myth of American Chosenness’

June 2, 2023

“There is a significant difference between the eighteenth century and the present. The white Christian nationalists who supported the American Revolution were tainted by their racism and their refusal to extend political rights to women, but they defended the principle of democracy, even if it was only partially fulfilled as a positive good," said HDS Professor Catherine Brekus. "Today, however, white Christian nationalists are so convinced they have been called to uphold the nation’s special covenant with God that they have been willing to dismantle the legacy of the American Revolution, including the separation of church and state, to preserve their political dominance. Many are no longer committed to the core principles of democracy. White Christian nationalists believe they must protect the nation, which they see as sacred, from the government, which they argue has become corrupt.”

There’s More to Life Than Money, but Still …

May 24, 2023

"It’s very important that students understand that the way ahead is going to be a lot about struggle — not only their personal struggles, but social struggles, and that their struggles ought to be in the service of the collective, of the family, of the group," says HDS Professor Davíd Carrasco.

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'A Moment for Saving Time and Saving Ourselves'

May 23, 2023

Dean of the Faculty of Divinity, Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professor of Evangelical Theological Studies, and John Lord O'Brian Professor of Divinity David N. Hempton was the faculty speaker during the Multireligious Commencement Service on May 24, 2023. The following remarks were delivered by Hempton during the service on the HDS Campus Green.... Read more about 'A Moment for Saving Time and Saving Ourselves'

Demons in Bible Use They/Them Pronouns Because of English Grammar, Not Gender | Fact Check

May 22, 2023

Benjamin Dunning, Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity, helps clear up a myth circulated by a social media post that suggests an ancient text invokes modern-day language about gender identity.

New Books Spotlight Women’s Leadership in New Testament

May 4, 2023

Joan Taylor, coauthor of the forthcoming book, Women Remembered: Jesus’ Female Disciples, pointed to the work of HDS professor and German theologian Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, who pioneered the field of feminist biblical interpretation in the 1980s and 1990s.

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