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The terms for the new position were drawn up in London on 22 August 1721. [4] Requirements for the professor were not very sectarian, although Hollis made a requirement of character: "That he should be a man of solid learning in divinity, of sound, or orthodox principles, one well gifted to teach, of a sober and pious life, and of a grave conversation."
Harvey Gallagher Cox Jr. (born May 19, 1929) is an American theologian who served as the Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School, until his retirement in October 2009. Cox's research and teaching focus on theological developments in world Christianity, including liberation theology and the role of Christianity in Latin America.
Karen Leigh King (born February 16, 1954, raised in Sheridan, Montana) [1] is a historian of religion working in the field of Early Christianity, who is currently the Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard University, in the oldest endowed chair in the United States (since 1721) She was the first woman to be appointed to the position.
Helmut Koester (died 2016), professor emeritus, New Testament scholar; Jon D. Levenson, scholar of Hebrew Bible and Jewish studies; Arthur Chute McGill, (1926–1980) Bussey Professor of Theology at Harvard from 1971 until 1980; Richard R. Niebuhr, Hollis Professor of Divinity emeritus, theologian
He graduated Harvard College in 1710, and in 1722 he was appointed to the newly created Hollis Chair, thereby becoming the first divinity professor commissioned in the American colonies. [3] He was made a Doctor of Divinity in 1730; he died in Cambridge on January 16, 1765, at age 73 after holding the chair for more than 42 years.
When the Harvard Divinity School Hollis Professor of Divinity David Tappan died in 1803 and the president of Harvard Joseph Willard died a year later, in 1804, acting president Eliphalet Pearson and overseer of the college Jedidiah Morse demanded that orthodox men be elected. [5] But, the Unitarian Henry Ware was elected in 1805.
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Clifford [1] John "Jack" Collins (born 1954) [2] is an engineer and professor of Old Testament at Covenant Theological Seminary, [3] where he has served since 1993. [ 4 ] Life and career