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Tag: Theology
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Nation & World
GSAS presents Centennial Medals
On May 25, the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences awarded the Centennial Medal to four alumni who have made extraordinary contributions to society. The medal, GSAS’s highest honor, was first awarded in 1989 on the 100th anniversary of the School’s founding.
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Wolfhart Peter Heinrichs
At the Meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on May 5, 2015, the Minute honoring the life and service of the late Wolfhart Peter Heinrichs, James Richard Jewett Professor of Arabic, was spread upon the records. Professor Heinrichs served as co-editor of the Encyclopedia of Islam, for which he himself wrote over fifty…
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A chaplain without robes
A Divinity School student reflects on his calling, how it has defined him and makes him different, and where it might lead.
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Planetary Loves: Spivak, Postcoloniality, and Theology
Mayra Rivera Rivera, assistant professor of theology and Latina/o studies, and Stephen D. Moore compiled these essays by theologians and biblical scholars who react to Spivak’s postcolonial studies and theology.
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Clooney named 2010-11 Luce Fellow
The Association of Theological Schools in the United States and Canada and the Henry Luce Foundation have named Francis X. Clooney, the Parkman Professor of Divinity and Professor of Comparative Theology at Harvard Divinity School, one of six Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology for 2010-11.
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Center for the Study of World Religions names Francis X. Clooney next director
Francis X. Clooney, a Roman Catholic priest and a member of the Society of Jesus, has been appointed the next director of the Center for the Study of World Religions at the Harvard Divinity School, beginning July 1.
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Geneticist ‘who doesn’t believe in God’ offers new conception of divine
The Paul Tillich Lecture, offered annually at Harvard since 1990, commemorates the memory of a public intellectual who was once “the largest theological figure in our orbit,” said The Rev. Peter J. Gomes.
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Stephen R. Prothero to deliver Noble Lectures
New York Times best-selling author and Boston University professor of religion Stephen R. Prothero will deliver this year’s William Belden Noble Lectures, “The Work of Doing Nothing: Wandering as Practice and Play,” Nov. 18-20 at the Memorial Church.
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Preacher Siwo-Okundi attends to the ‘small voice’
Why do people suffer from the sins of others? Elizabeth J.A. Siwo-Okundi has long pondered this question as she has studied some of the most ambiguous and troubling passages in the Bible. A master’s of theology student at Harvard Divinity School, Siwo-Okundi has never shied away from difficult issues. Even while studying Old Testament stories…