Yale Divinity School
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| Yale Divinity School | |
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| Image:Yaledivinityseal.jpg | |
| Established | 1822 |
| Type: | Private |
| Location | New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. |
| Dean: | Harold W. Attridge |
| Website: | http://www.yale.edu/divinity |
Yale Divinity School is a professional school at Yale University, in New Haven, Connecticut, U.S. preparing students for ordained or lay ministry. The nonsectarian school's mission is “To foster the knowledge and love of God through critical engagement with the traditions of the Christian churches in the context of the contemporary world.” The school grants the Master of Divinity (M.DIV.), Master of Arts in Religion (M.A.R.), and Master of Sacred Theology (S.T.M.) degrees.
The main mission of Yale College at its founding in 1701 was religious training. In its charter, it was designed as a school "wherein Youth may be instructed in the Arts & Sciences who through the blessing of Almighty God may be fitted for Publick employment both in Church & Civil State." A professorship of divinity was established in 1746 and in 1822, a separate department developed, later known as the Yale Divinity School.
The Georgian style campus, The Sterling Divinity Quadrangle, designed by Delano & Aldrich, was built in 1932, modeled, in part, on the University of Virginia. The school formerly occupied East and West Divinity Hall (1870-1931) designed by Richard Morris Hunt. Since razed, this site is now occupied by Calhoun College.[1]
The Berkeley Divinity School affiliated with Yale Divinity School in 1971. While Berkeley retains its Episcopal Church connection, its students are admitted by and fully enrolled as members of Yale Divinity School.
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[edit] Notable alumni
- Diogenes Allen
- Lyman Beecher
- Gregory A. Boyd
- Frederick Buechner
- Will D. Campbell
- William Ragsdale Cannon (Bachelor of Divinity, 1940; Ph.D., 1942), Professor and Dean, Candler School of Theology, Emory University; Bishop of the United Methodist Church
- Roy Clyde Clark, a Bishop of the United Methodist Church
- William Sloane Coffin
- John Danforth
- Hans Wilhelm Frei
- Paul Vernon Galloway, a Bishop of The Methodist Church
- Gary Hart
- Stanley Hauerwas
- Richard B. Hays
- Sen Katayama
- Helmut Richard Niebuhr
- Reinhold Niebuhr
- Clark V. Poling
- Adam Clayton Powell, Sr.
- George Rupp
- Ron Sider
- John Silber
- William Willimon
- Anne Stanback
