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Swartz Hall (formerly Andover Hall) Harvard College was founded in 1636 as a Puritan/Congregationalist institution and trained ministers for many years. The separate institution of the Divinity School dates from 1816, when it was established as the first non-denominational divinity school in the United States.
Vanderbilt University Divinity School: Nashville, Tennessee: Emilie M. Townes (Dean of the Divinity School) 1938: Nondenominational Virginia Theological Seminary: Alexandria, Virginia: Ian Markham (Dean and President) 1938: Episcopal Church Wake Forest University School of Divinity: Winston-Salem, North Carolina
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.
Divinity Hall, built in 1826, is the oldest building in the Harvard Divinity School at Harvard University.It is located at 14 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, Massachusetts. The Hall was designed by Solomon Willard and Thomas Sumner, and dedicated on August 29, 1826, with William Ellery Channing giving the dedicatory speech, "The Christian Ministry."
Letty Mandeville Russell (September 20, 1929 – July 12, 2007) was a feminist theologian, professor, and prolific author. [1] She was a member of the first class of women admitted to Harvard Divinity School, and one of the first women ordained in the United Presbyterian Church.
Mark D. Jordan (born 1953/54) is a scholar of Christian theology, European philosophy, and gender studies. He is currently the Richard Reinhold Niebuhr Research Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School and Professor of the Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality in the Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences.
Gordon Dester Kaufman (22 June 1925 – 22 July 2011) was an American theologian and the Mallinckrodt Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School, where he taught for over three decades beginning in 1963. [1] He also taught at Pomona College and Vanderbilt University, and lectured in India, Japan, South Africa, England, and Hong Kong.
Kevin J. Madigan (born March 28, 1960) [1] is an American historian and theologian who has served as the Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Harvard Divinity School since 2009. He was appointed to the position by Harvard Divinity dean William Graham and approved by Drew Gilpin Faust. [2]