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Divinity Hall, ca. 1880s. The "Divinity School Address" is the common name for the speech Ralph Waldo Emerson gave to the graduating class of Harvard Divinity School on July 15, 1838. Its formal title is "Acquaint Thyself First Hand with Deity."
Library support for the study of religion at Harvard predates the establishment of the Divinity School; almost three-fourths of the 400 volumes that John Harvard gave to Harvard College in 1638 were theological in nature. Books on religion made up a third to a half of the college's holdings until the Divinity School was established in 1816 and ...
John Gorham Palfrey (May 2, 1796 – April 26, 1881) was an American clergyman and historian who served as a U.S. Representative from Massachusetts.A Unitarian minister, he played a leading role in the early history of Harvard Divinity School, and he later became involved in politics as a State Representative and U.S. Congressman.
Harvard's philosophy department is housed in Emerson Hall (1900). [195] In May 2006, 168 years after Emerson delivered his "Divinity School Address", Harvard Divinity School announced the establishment of the Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Professorship. [196] Author Ralph Waldo Ellison
Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies, The Divinity School, Harvard University, 1988-Affiliate Member, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University, 1988-Professor of Hebrew Bible in the Divinity School and in the Committee on General Studies in the Humanities, the University of Chicago, 1988
Rupp was the John Lord O'Brian Professor of Divinity and dean of the Harvard Divinity School from 1979 to 1985. Under his leadership, the curriculum of the school was revised to address more directly the pluralistic character of contemporary religious life.
A taped address to the Annual Assembly of the Massachusetts Council of Churches, December 9, 1972 is in the Harvard Divinity School Library at Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Writings of Krister Stendahl, from Harvard Divinity School Faculty Writings File; Personal reflections about Bishop Stendahl and his ministry
He was chosen to speak at his commencement; his address was titled "Individuality". [11] After graduating, Very served as a tutor in Greek, then entered Harvard Divinity School, [2] with the financial assistance of an uncle. [13] Although Very never completed his divinity degree, he held temporary pastorates in Maine, Massachusetts, and Rhode ...