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The Hollis Chair of Divinity is an endowed chair at Harvard Divinity School. It was established in 1721 by Thomas Hollis , a wealthy English merchant and benefactor of the university, at a salary of £80 per year. [ 1 ]
As a Baptist and a Calvinist, Hollis required his donations to be used for directed purposes.For example, in 1721, he established the Hollis Chair of Divinity at Harvard, with a salary of £80 per year, with the stipulation that Baptists be included for consideration.
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.
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.
Hollis Chair may refer to: Hollis Chair of Divinity, a chair established at Harvard College; Hollis Chair of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy, ...
In 1805 he was elected to the Hollis Chair at Harvard, precipitating a controversy between Unitarians and more conservative Calvinists. He took part in the formation of the Harvard Divinity School and the establishment of Unitarianism there in the following decades, publishing his debates with eminent Calvinists in the 1820s.
This is a list of named chairs at Harvard University.. Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory; Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History and Affairs; Hancock Professor of Hebrew and other Oriental languages