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List Of Episcopal Divinity School People
This is a partial list of notable people affiliated with Episcopal Divinity School, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, and with its predecessors, the Episcopal Theological School and the Philadelphia Divinity School. Faculty * Alexander Viets Griswold Allen (1841–1908), church historian * Nathan D. Baxter (born 1948), bishop of Central Pennsylvania * Robert Avon Bennett (born 1933), Old Testament scholar, first African-American faculty member * Charles Bennison (born 1943), bishop of Pennsylvania * John Everitt Booty (1925-2013), dean of the School of Theology, University of the South * Katie Geneva Cannon (born 1949), feminist theologian * Otis Charles (1926-2013), dean, bishop of Utah * Steven Charleston (born 1949), dean, bishop of Alaska * John B. Coburn (1925–2006), dean, bishop of Massachusetts * Frederick William Dillistone (1903–1993), theologian, dean of Liverpool * Angus Dun (1892–1971), dean, bishop of Washington * Elisabeth Sch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Episcopal Divinity School
The Episcopal Divinity School (EDS) is a theological school in New York City that trains students for service with the Episcopal Church. It is affiliated with the Union Theological Seminary. Students who enroll in the EDS at Union Anglican studies program earn a Master of Divinity degree from Union and also fulfill requirements for ordination in the Episcopal Church. It is led by Dean Kelly Brown Douglas. Known throughout the Anglican Communion for progressive teaching and action on issues of civil rights and social justice, its faculty and students were directly involved in many of the social controversies surrounding the Episcopal Church in the latter half of the 20th century and at the start of the 21st. Until 2017, EDS was a seminary of the Episcopal Church based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. As an independent seminary, EDS offered Master of Divinity (M.Div.), Master of Arts in Theological Studies (MATS), and Doctor of Ministry (D.Min.) degree programs, as we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frederick William Dillistone
Frederick William Dillistone (9 May 1903 – 5 October 1993) was the second Dean of Liverpool. Dillistone was educated at Brighton College and Brasenose College, Oxford. Ordained in 1928, he began his ecclesiastical career with a curacy at St Jude's Southsea. Later, he was a tutor at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford and then Vicar of St Andrew's in the same city. From 1938 to 1945 he was Professor of Theology at Wycliffe College, Toronto and from then until 1952 held the same position at the Episcopal Divinity School at Cambridge, Massachusetts. Moving back to England he was Canon Residentiary and Chancellor of Liverpool Cathedral from 1952 to 1956 and then its Dean until 1963. From 1964 until his retirement in 1970, he was Fellow and Chaplain of Oriel College, Oxford. In 1968, he delivered the Bampton Lectures under the title 'Traditional Symbols and the Contemporary World'. An eminent author,Amongst others he wrote “The Significance of the Cross”, 1945; “The Structure ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philadelphia Eleven
The Philadelphia Eleven are eleven women who were the first women ordained as priests in the Episcopal Church on July 29, 1974, two years before General Convention affirmed and explicitly authorized the ordination of women to the priesthood. Background In the Episcopal Church, a member church of the worldwide Anglican Communion, no canon law existed prohibiting the ordination of women as deacons, priests and bishops. However, the custom of ordaining only men was the norm. Women had been admitted to a separate order of "deaconesses". Although they were typically understood by themselves and their bishops to be in holy orders, these were treated differently from men ordained as deacons. By custom they were celibate and wore a blue habit-like garb which was often assumed to be that of nuns. By custom women were denied ordination to the priesthood. During the first half of the twentieth century women in the Episcopal Church had begun exploring ways to increase their participation ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
