Thomas Santa Maria is a Yang Visting Scholar in World Christianity at Harvard Divinity School for the 2023-24 academic year. He has published in journals including the Catholic Historical Review, and the Journal of Early Modern Christianity. He comes to HDS from Yale University, where he was the Residential College Dean of Silliman College, and before that, a graduate student in renaissance studies and history. His work focuses primarily on the relationship between the body, emotions, and religion in the Early Modern period.... Read more about Yang Scholar Thomas Santa Maria on Mysticism and Miracles in World Christianity
"I think the relationship is on life support, and people of good faith are working to try to solve the problem and to heal the shattered fragments of the relationship," says HDS Professor Terrence Johnson of the relationship between Black and Jewish communities.
“I never thought that I would get into Harvard Divinity School. I still remember the morning I received my online acceptance letter. I had just woken up, unlocked my phone in spite of my blurry vision, and saw that I had an update on my application status. Thinking I had surely been rejected, I quickly checked my application only to see virtual confetti sprinkle across my screen and over my acceptance letter. I immediately told my parents the good news, and we were all thrilled.”
Holland, John A. Bartlett Professor of New England Church History and interim dean of HDS, traces Christmas celebrations' path from wild revelry through Puritan’s progress to Hallmark holiday.
This lecture was given by Jessica J. Fowler (University of Montana Western), who is an HDS Visiting Associate Professor of Women’s Studies and Catholicism on her work, "Illuminating the Empire: The Spanish Inquisition and the Spread of Global Heresy."
“What’s remarkable is how much evidence has survived systematic attempts to erase women from history and with them the warrants and models for women’s leadership. The evidence presented here is but the tip of an iceberg,” said Professor Karen King.
The Constellation Project is pleased to announce the publication of our second “Prayer Book,” by HDS student Morgan Curtis. “The Decolonial Dames of America,” is a landmark essay about the importance of ancestral repair work needed to be taken by the white descendants of oppressors to cultivate the soil of healing. This event featured a reading by Morgan Curtis in conversation with Melissa Bartholomew, associate dean for diversity, inclusion, and belonging.
