Tag: ” Harvard Divinity School

  • Science & Tech

    Protecting nature religiously

    “Our religious institutions are the only institutions that are not completely implicated in the culture of materialism and growth,” said Bill McKibben, an environmental activist and a fellow at Harvard Divinity School’s Center for the Study of Values in Public Life. “The church can posit some other reason for human existence than the accumulation of…

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    Women priests, vegetarianism – early Christian manuscript holds surprises

    In the early days of Christianity, when the first Christians were spreading the faith, diversity of belief was the norm rather than the exception. An early manuscript uncovered by a Harvard professor, for example, describes a community of celibate vegetarians in which both women and men functioned as priests. “The usual view is that in…

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