Yale Divinity School (YDS) is one of the twelve graduate and professional schools of

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. Congregationalist theological education was the motivation at the founding of Yale, and the professional school has its roots in a Theological Department established in 1822. The school had maintained its own campus, faculty, and degree program since 1869, and it has become more ecumenical beginning in the mid-19th century. Since the 1970s, it has been affiliated with the

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Berkeley Divinity School Berkeley Divinity School, founded in 1854, is a seminary of The Episcopal Church in New Haven, Connecticut. Along with Andover Newton Theological School and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, Berkeley is one of the three "Partners on the Quad," ...

and has housed the Institute of Sacred Music, which offers separate degree programs. In July 2017, a two-year process of formal affiliation was completed, with the addition of Andover Newton Seminary joining the school. Over 40 different denominations are represented at YDS.

History

Theological education was the earliest academic purpose of Yale University. When

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was founded in 1701, it was as a college of religious training for Congregationalist ministers in

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, designated in its charter 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. In 1817, the occupant of the divinity chair,

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, supported a student request to endow a theological curriculum, and five years later a separate was founded by the Yale Corporation. In the same motion,

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theologian Nathaniel William Taylor was appointed to become the first Dwight Professor of Didactic Theology. Taylor was considered the "central figure" in the school's founding, and he was joined in 1826 by Josiah Willard Gibbs, Sr., a scholar of sacred languages and lexicographer

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in 1839. A dedicated student dormitory, Divinity College, was completed on the college's Old Campus in 1836, but the department had no permanent classrooms or offices until several years after the end of the

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Old Divinity School, Yale University, New Haven, Conn

After a significant period of enrollment decline, the school began fundraising from alumni for new faculty and facilities. Divinity Hall was constructed on the present-day site of Grace Hopper College between 1869 and 1871, featuring two classroom wings and a chapel. Around the time of the new campus' construction came the arrival of new faculty, including James M. Hoppin,

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, George Park Fisher, and Leonard Bacon. The first Bachelor of Divinity (B.D.) was conferred in 1867, and the department became a separate School of Divinity in 1869. The school remained across from Old Campus until 1929, when a new campus was constructed on the northern edge of the university campus, at the top of Prospect Hill. Sterling Divinity Quadrangle

affiliated with Yale Divinity School in 1971, and in the same year the university replaced the B.D. with a Master of Divinity (M.Div.) program. 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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, a division of the Divinity School, maintains a large collection of primary source materials about

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, a 1720 Yale alumnus. The Yale Institute of Sacred Music (ISM) is jointly-affiliated with the Divinity School and School of Music. It offers programs in choral conducting, organ performance, voice, and church music studies, and in liturgical studies and religion and the arts. In May 2016,

Andover Newton Theological School Andover Newton Theological School (ANTS) was a graduate school and seminary in Newton, Massachusetts. Affiliated with the American Baptist Churches USA and the United Church of Christ. It was the product of a merger between Andover Theological ...

president Martin Copenhaver announced that Andover Newton would begin a process of formal affiliation with the Divinity School over the next two years. In the 2016–17 academic year, a cohort of faculty relocated to New Haven teaching students and launching pilot initiatives focused on congregational ministry education, while Andover Newton continued to operate in Massachusetts over the next two years. In July 2017, a formal affiliation was signed, resulting in smaller Andover Newton functioning as a unit within Yale Divinity School, similar to its arrangement with Berkeley. In October 2020, YDS received a $1 million grant from the Lilly Endowment as part of the foundation's Thriving Congregations Initiative to fund a program entitled, "Reimagining Church: New Models for the 21st Century." Reimagining Church will involve 40 congregations in Connecticut as well as YDS students, faculty, and staff over a five-year period. In November 2020, the Yale Divinity School Women's Center revived the publication of ''The Voice Journal of Literary and Theological Ideas'', a feminist journal that initially ran from 1996 to 2002.

Degrees

Yale Divinity School is accredited by the Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada (ATS) and approved by ATS to grant the following degrees: *

Master of Divinity For graduate-level theological institutions, the Master of Divinity (MDiv, ''magister divinitatis'' in Latin) is the first professional degree of the pastoral profession in North America. It is the most common academic degree in seminaries and divi ...

(M.Div.) *

Master of Arts A Master of Arts ( la, Magister Artium or ''Artium Magister''; abbreviated MA, M.A., AM, or A.M.) is the holder of a master's degree awarded by universities in many countries. The degree is usually contrasted with that of Master of Science. Tho ...

Religion Religion is usually defined as a social- cultural system of designated behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics, or organizations, that generally relates humanity to supernatural, ...

(M.A.R.) * Master of Sacred Theology (S.T.M.) Students pursuing an M.A.R. can choose between
comprehensive
an
concentrated
program. The following concentrations are offered:
Hebrew Bible

Second Temple Judaism

New Testament

Theology

Philosophical Theology

Practical Theology

Ethics

History of Christianity

World Christianity/Missions

Liturgical Studies

Religion & the Arts

Asian Religions

Black Religion in the African Diaspora

Latinx & Latin American Christianity

Religion & Ecology

Women’s/Gender/Sexuality Studies
Students in any degree program at Yale Divinity School can also earn certificates in any of the following areas:
Lutheran Studies

Reformed Studies

Anglican Studies

Catholic Lay Ministerial Studies

United Methodist Studies

Black Church Studies

Andover Newton Seminary
(non-degree diploma)
Educational Leadership and Ministry

Leadership

Gregory E. Sterling, a New Testament scholar and

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pastor, has been the dean of the divinity school since 2012, succeeding New Testament scholar

Harold W. Attridge Harold William Attridge (born November 24, 1946) is an American New Testament scholar known for his work in New Testament exegesis, especially the Epistle to the Hebrews, the study of Hellenistic Judaism, and the history of the early Church. He i ...

, who returned to teaching as a

Sterling Professor Sterling Professor, the highest academic rank at Yale University, is awarded to a tenured faculty member considered the best in his or her field. It is akin to the rank of university professor at other universities. The appointment, made by the ...

upon completing two five-year terms as dean. The leaders of the affiliated seminaries are

Andrew McGowan Andrew Brian McGowan (born 1961) is an Australian scholar of early Christianity and an Anglican priest. He is McFaddin Professor of Anglican Studies at Yale Divinity School and dean and president of the Berkeley Divinity School at Yale. Prior to a ...

, Dean and President of Berkeley Divinity School, and Sarah Drummond, Founding Dean of Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School. Organist

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is director of the Institute of Sacred Music.

Deans of Yale Divinity School

Campus

When the department was organized as a school in 1869, it was moved to a campus across from the northwest corner of the New Haven Green composed of East Divinity Hall (1869), Marquand Chapel (1871), West Divinity Hall (1871), and the Trowbridge Library (1881). The buildings, designed by

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, were demolished under the residential college plan and replaced by Calhoun College, now known as Grace Hopper College. In 1929, the trustees of the estate of lawyer

John William Sterling John William Sterling (May 12, 1844 – July 5, 1918) was a founding partner of Shearman & Sterling LLP and major benefactor to Yale University. Early life and career John William Sterling was born in Stratford, Connecticut, the son of Ca ...

agreed that a portion of his bequest to Yale would be used to build a new campus for the Divinity School. The Sterling Divinity Quadrangle, completed in 1932, is a

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-style complex built at the top of Prospect Hill. It was designed by Delano & Aldrich and modeled in part on the

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A $49-million renovation of Sterling Divinity Quadrangle was completed in 2003. Sterling Divinity Quadrangle contains academic buildings, Marquand Chapel, and graduate student housing for YDS students. Yale Divinity School is currently planning the construction of the Living Village, a zero-waste, sustainable living community that will house 155 YDS students.

Notable alumni

* Diogenes Allen (B.D. 1959) *

Ian Barbour Ian Graeme Barbour (1923–2013) was an American scholar on the relationship between science and religion. According to the Public Broadcasting Service his mid-1960s '' Issues in Science and Religion'' "has been credited with literally creating ...

(B.D. 1956) *

Kate Bowler Kate Bowler is a Canadian academic and writer from Winnipeg, Manitoba. Bowler is currently an associate professor of the history of Christianity in North America at Duke Divinity School. She is the author of ''Blessed: A History of the American Pr ...

(M.A.R. 2005) *

Gregory A. Boyd Gregory A. Boyd (born June 2, 1957) is an American theologian, pastor, and author. Boyd is Senior Pastor of Woodland Hills Church in St. Paul, Minnesota and President of Reknew.org. He is one of the leading spokesmen in the growing Neo-Anabapti ...

(M.Div. 1982) * Will D. Campbell (B.D. 1952) *

Orishatukeh Faduma Orishatukeh Faduma (born, September 15, 1855, Guyana - died January 25, 1946, High Point, North Carolina) was an African-American Christianity, Christian missionary and educator who was also an advocate for African culture. He contributed to layi ...

(B.D. 1894, graduate study 1895) *

William Ragsdale Cannon William Ragsdale Cannon (April 5, 1916 – May 11, 1997) was the dean of Candler School of Theology (1953-1968) and an American bishop of the United Methodist Church, elected in 1968. Birth and family William was born in Chattanooga, Tenness ...

(B.D. 1940; Ph.D. 1942), Professor and Dean,

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;

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of the

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. *

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, ( B.D. 1963; S.T.M., 1965), scholar of Pastoral Theology * Roy Clyde Clark, (B.D. 1944),

of the

* William Sloane Coffin (B.D. 1956) * Chris Coons (Master's degree in ethics, 1992),

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from Delaware * Harvey Cox (B.D. 1955), theologian and

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at Harvard Divinity School (1965–2009) * Zebulon Crocker * Raymond Culver, (B.D. 1920), president of Shimer College * Michael Curry (M.Div. 1978), Presiding Bishop of the

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* John Danforth (M.Div. 1963), former

from Missouri * Walter Fauntroy, (B.D. 1958), Founding Member - Congressional Black Caucus *

David F. Ford David Frank Ford (born 23 January 1948) is an Anglican public theologian. He was the Regius Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, beginning in 1991. He is now an Emeritus Regius Professor of Divinity. His research interests incl ...

(S.T.M.), Regius Professor of Divinity Emeritus at the

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* Milton Gaither (M.A.R. 1996), historian of American education *

Paul Vernon Galloway Paul Vernon Galloway (April 5, 1904 – August 5, 1990) became an American United Methodist minister after graduation from Yale Divinity School. He was elected Bishop of the United Methodist Church in 1960. After retiring in 1972, he was recalled ...

, a Bishop of The Methodist Church * Tom Vaughn (Doctorate in theology), jazz musician and Episcopal priest *

Leroy Gilbert Leroy Gilbert (born September 28, 1947) is a former officer in the United States Navy and Chaplain of the United States Coast Guard. Biography A native of Albany, Georgia, Gilbert is an ordained Baptist pastor. Gilbert holds a B.A. from American ...

(S.T.M. 1979) *

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(B.D. 1961) * Stanley Hauerwas (B.D. 1965) *

Richard B. Hays Richard Bevan Hays (born May 4, 1948) is an American New Testament scholar and George Washington Ivey Professor Emeritus of New Testament Duke Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina. He is an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church. ...

(M.Div. 1977) *

Serene Jones Lynda Serene Jones (born 1959) is the President and Johnston Family Professor for Religion and Democracy at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York. She was formerly the Titus Street Professor of Theology at Yale Divinity School and chai ...

(M.Div. 1985) President of Union Theological Seminary (New_York_City) *

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(1945), foreign affairs expert and founder of the Ethics and Public Policy Center. *

Sallie McFague Sallie McFague (May 25, 1933 – November 15, 2019) was an American feminist Christian theologian, best known for her analysis of how metaphor lies at the heart of how Christians may speak about God. She applied this approach, in particular, to ...

(B.D. 1959) * Candida Moss (M.A.R. 2002) *

Otis Moss III Otis Moss III (born 16 September 1970) is the pastor of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ. He espouses black theology and speaks about reaching inner-city black youth. Early life and education His father Otis Moss Jr. was an affiliate ...

(M.Div. 1995), Pastor of Trinity Church, Chicago * Reinhold Niebuhr (B.D. 1914, M.A. 1915), Protestant theologian and public intellectual * Richard T. Nolan (M.A. 1967) * Douglas Oldenburg (S.T.M. 1961), President Emeritus at Columbia Theological Seminary, Presbyterian (USA) pastor. * Julie Faith Parker *

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(B.D. 1944) *

Clark V. Poling Clark Vandersall Poling (August 7, 1910 – February 3, 1943) was a minister in the Reformed Church in America and a lieutenant in the United States Army. He was one of the Four Chaplains who gave their lives to save other soldiers during th ...

(1936) * Peter L. Pond, human rights activist and philanthropist. *

Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. Adam Clayton Powell (May 5, 1865 – June 12, 1953) was an American pastor who developed the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem, New York as the largest Protestant congregation in the country, with 10,000 members. He was an African American com ...

(attended 1895–1896) *

George Rupp George Erik Rupp (born September 22, 1942) is an American educator and theologian, who served successively as President of Rice University, of Columbia University, and of the International Rescue Committee. Biography Rupp was born in Summit, ...

* Father

V.C. Samuel Vilakuvelil Cherian Samuel (Malayalam: വി.സി. സാമുവേൽ; Hebrew :שְׁמוּאֵל ; Greek: Σαμουήλ; Arabic: صموئيل; Latin:Samūēl Amharic: ሳሙኤል1912–1998), called ''Samuel Achen'' was an Indian Chr ...

(PhD. 1957) Indian Christian Theologian and Historian. * Ron Sider *

John Silber John Robert Silber (August 15, 1926 – September 27, 2012) was an American academician and candidate for public office. From 1971 to 1996, he was President of Boston University (BU) and, from 1996 to 2002, Chancellor. From 2002 to 2003, he again ...

* John Shelby Spong * Amos Alonzo Stagg * Rufus W. Stimson (B.D., 1897), Professor of English and President of the

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(M.Div. 1976) * Roy M. Terry (B.D. 1942) *

Krista Tippett Krista Tippett ( née Weedman; born November 9, 1960) is an American journalist, author, and entrepreneur. She created and hosts the public radio program and podcast ''On Being''. In 2014, Tippett was awarded the National Humanities Medal by U.S. ...

(M.Div. 1994) *

R. A. Torrey Reuben Archer Torrey (28 January 1856 – 26 October 1928) was an American evangelist, pastor, educator, and writer. He aligned with Keswick theology. Biography Torrey was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, the son of a banker. He graduated from ...

(B.D. 1878) * John W. Traphagan (M.A.R. 1986), professor of Religious Studies and Anthropology,

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* Glenn M. Wagner (M.Div. 1978) *

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(B.D. 1946) * Parker T. Williamson (M.Phil.) * William Willimon (M.Div. 1971)

Notable past professors

Former faculty: 20th–21st centuries

* Roland Bainton *

Brevard Childs Brevard Springs Childs (September 2, 1923 – June 23, 2007) was an American Old Testament scholar and Professor of Old Testament at Yale University from 1958 until 1999 (and Sterling Professor after 1992), who is considered one of the most influe ...

Rebecca Chopp Rebecca S. Chopp (born 1952) is an academic administrator and professor. She was the 18th chancellor of the University of Denver, and the first female chancellor in the institution's history. Prior to that, Chopp was a president of Swarthmore Coll ...

Adela Yarbro Collins Adela Yarbro Collins (born 1945) is an American author and academic, who has served as the Buckingham Professor of New Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School. Her research focuses on the New Testament, especially the Gospel ...

, 2000–2015 * Jerome Davis *

Margaret Farley Margaret A. Farley (born April 15, 1935) is an American religious sister and a member of the Catholic Sisters of Mercy. She was Gilbert L. Stark Professor Emerita of Christian Ethics at Yale University Divinity School, where she taught Christian e ...

* Hans Wilhelm Frei * Paul L. Holmer *

David Kelsey David H. Kelsey (born 1932Kevin J. Vanhoozer, Craig G. Bartholomew, Daniel J. Treier, ''Dictionary for theological interpretation of the Bible'', (2005), p860. ) is an American theologian and academic. Biography Kelsey is a graduate of Haverford C ...

* Kenneth Scott Latourette *

George Lindbeck George Arthur Lindbeck (March 10, 1923 – January 8, 2018) was an American Lutheran theologian. He was best known as an ecumenicist and as one of the fathers of postliberal theology. Early life and education Lindbeck was born on March 10, 192 ...

* Douglas Clyde Macintosh * Reinhold Niebuhr * H. Richard Niebuhr *

Henri Nouwen Henri Jozef Machiel Nouwen (January 24, 1932 – September 21, 1996) was a Dutch Catholic priest, professor, writer and theologian. His interests were rooted primarily in psychology, pastoral ministry, spirituality, social justice and commu ...

, 1971–1981 *

Liston Pope Liston Corlando Pope (6 September 1909 — 15 April 1974) was an American clergyman, author, theological educator, and dean of Yale University Divinity School from 1949 to 1962. Early life Pope was born in Thomasville, North Carolina, the son of R ...

(Dean) * Letty M. Russell (1974–2001) * Lamin Sanneh *

Emilie Townes Emilie Maureen Townes (born August 1, 1955, Durham, North Carolina) is an American Christian social ethicist and theologian, currently Dean and E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Womanism, Womanist Ethics and Society at the Vanderbilt ...

Denys Turner Denys Alan Turner (born 5 August 1942) is a British-born American philosopher and theologian. He is Horace Tracy Pitkin Professor of Historical Theology emeritus at Yale University having been appointed in 2005, previously having been Norris� ...

Nicholas Wolterstorff Nicholas Paul Wolterstorff (born January 21, 1932) is an American philosopher and theologian. He is currently Noah Porter Professor Emeritus Philosophical Theology at Yale University. A prolific writer with wide-ranging philosophical and theologi ...

Henry Burt Wright Henry Burt Wright (1877–1923) was an American professor from Yale University whose writings influenced, among others, Frank Buchman, and subsequently the work he developed under the name of Oxford Group, later Moral Rearmament. Biography Henr ...

(1877-1923)

Former faculty: 19th century

* Lyman Beecher * George Park Fisher

Current faculty (ca. 2019)

* Teresa Berger *

John J. Collins John J. Collins (born 1946) is the Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale Divinity School. He is noted for his research in the Hebrew Bible, as well as the apocryphal works of the Second Temple period including the ...

*Michal Beth Dinkler *

John E. Hare John Edmund Hare (born 26 July 1949) is a British Classical studies, classicist, philosopher, ethicist, and currently Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale University. Biography He received a Bachelor of Arts honours in Literae ...

*Erika Helgen *Jennifer A. Herdt * Willie James Jennings *Yii-Jan Lin *Eboni Marshall Turman *Donyelle McCray *

*Joyce Mercer *Mary Clark Moschella *Laura Nasrallah *Sally M. Promey *Melanie Ross *Janet Ruffing *Carolyn J. Sharp *Chloë Starr *

Kathryn Tanner Kathryn Eileen Tanner (born 1957) is an American theologian who serves as Frederick Marquand Professor of Systematic Theology at Yale Divinity School. Biography Born on March 29, 1957, Tanner earned her BA, MA, MPhil, and PhD degrees from Yale ...

*Gabrielle Thomas *Linn Tonstad * Jacqueline Vayntrub * Miroslav Volf *Tisa Wenger *

Christian Wiman Christian Wiman is an American poet and editor born in 1966 and raised in the small west Texas town of Snyder. He graduated from Washington and Lee University and has taught at Northwestern University, Stanford University, Lynchburg College in Vi ...

*Almeda M. Wright

References

External links

Yale Divinity School website

Berkeley Divinity School at Yale

Andover Newton Seminary at Yale
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