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title: "Yale Divinity School"
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source: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yale_Divinity_School"
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category: "reference"
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tags: "science, encyclopedia"
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date_saved: "2026-05-05T04:34:27.882601+00:00"
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== Leadership ==
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Gregory Sterling, a New Testament scholar and Church of Christ pastor, has been the dean of the divinity school since 2012, succeeding New Testament scholar Harold W. Attridge, who returned to teaching as a Sterling Professor upon completing two five-year terms as dean. The leaders of the affiliated seminaries are Andrew McGowan, Dean and President of Berkeley Divinity School, and Sarah Drummond, Founding Dean of Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School. Organist Martin Jean is director of the Institute of Sacred Music.
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=== Deans of Yale Divinity School ===
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== Campus ==
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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 Richard Morris Hunt, were demolished under the residential college plan and replaced by Calhoun College, now known as Grace Hopper College.
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In 1929, the trustees of the estate of lawyer John William Sterling 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 Georgian-style complex built at the top of Prospect Hill. It was designed by Delano & Aldrich and modeled in part on the University of Virginia.
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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.
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Yale Divinity School is currently planning the construction of the Living Village, a zero-waste, sustainable living community that will house 155 YDS students.
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== Notable alumni ==
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=== Government and Politics ===
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John D. Baldwin (B.D. 1834), U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 8th congressional district
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Lois Capps (M.A.R. 1964), U.S. Representative for California's 24th congressional district
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Walter Holden Capps (M.A.R. 1963; Ph.D. 1965), U.S. Representative for California's 22nd congressional district
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William Sloane Coffin (B.D. 1956), Central Intelligence Agency officer
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Chris Coons (M.A.R. 1992), U.S. Senator from Delaware
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John Danforth (M.Div. 1963), U.S. Senator from Missouri
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Walter Fauntroy (B.D. 1958), U.S. Representative for the District of Columbia
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Robert Bernard Hall (B.D. 1835), U.S. Representative for Massachusetts's 1st congressional district
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Gary Hart (B.D. 1961), U.S. Senator from Colorado
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Guy Vander Jagt (B.D. 1955), U.S. Representative for Michigan's 9th congressional district
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James A. Joseph (B.D. 1963), U.S. Ambassador to South Africa
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Sen Katayama (Attended), founder of the Japanese Communist Party
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James T. Laney (B.D. 1954), U.S. Ambassador to South Korea
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Ernest W. Lefever (B.D. 1945), foreign affairs expert and founder of the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
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Chang Sang (M.Div. 1970), Prime Minister of South Korea
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David E. Price (B.D. 1964), U.S. Representative for North Carolina's 4th congressional district
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=== Academia ===
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Kate Bowler (M.A.R. 2005), academic and writer
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Donald Eric Capps (B.D. 1963; S.T.M. 1965), scholar of Pastoral Theology
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Harvey Cox (B.D. 1955), theologian and Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School
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Raymond Culver, (B.D. 1920), President of Shimer College
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David F. Ford (S.T.M.), Regius Professor of Divinity Emeritus at the University of Cambridge
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Milton Gaither (M.A.R. 1996), historian of American education
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Serene Jones (M.Div. 1985), President of Union Theological Seminary
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Candida Moss (M.A.R. 2002), Edward Cadbury Professor of Theology at the University of Birmingham
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Reinhold Niebuhr (B.D. 1914, M.A. 1915), philosopher and public intellectual
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Douglas Oldenburg (S.T.M. 1961), President Emeritus of Columbia Theological Seminary
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George Rupp (B.D. 1967), 18th President of Columbia University
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John Silber (Attended 1947-1948), 7th President of Boston University
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Rena Karefa-Smart (B.D. 1945), first Black woman to graduate from Yale Divinity School
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Rufus W. Stimson (B.D., 1897), Professor of English and President of the University of Connecticut
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Krista Tippett (M.Div. 1994), National Humanities Medal and Peabody Award winner
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John W. Traphagan (M.A.R. 1986), Professor of Religious Studies and Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin
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=== Religious Leadership ===
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William Ragsdale Cannon (B.D. 1940; Ph.D. 1942), Bishop of the United Methodist Church
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Roy Clyde Clark (B.D. 1944), Bishop of the United Methodist Church
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Michael Curry (M.Div. 1978), 27th Presiding Bishop of the Episcopal Church
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Paul Vernon Galloway (B.D. 1929), Bishop of The Methodist Church
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Allen Kannapell (M.Div. 1997), Suffragan Bishop of the Anglican Diocese of the Great Lakes
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James Massa (M.A.R. 1985), Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn
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=== Other ===
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Diogenes Allen (B.D. 1959)
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Ian Barbour (B.D. 1956)
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Gregory A. Boyd (M.Div. 1982)
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Will D. Campbell (B.D. 1952)
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Orishatukeh Faduma (B.D. 1894, graduate study 1895)
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Frederick William Chapman (A.M. 1832), Congregational minister, educator, and genealogist
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Zebulon Crocker
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Tom Vaughn (Doctorate in theology), jazz musician and Episcopal priest
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Leroy Gilbert (S.T.M. 1979)
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Lisa Grabarek, Baptist preacher and teacher
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Stanley Hauerwas (B.D. 1965)
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Richard B. Hays (M.Div. 1977)
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Sallie McFague (B.D. 1959)
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Otis Moss III (M.Div. 1995), Pastor of Trinity Church, Chicago
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Richard T. Nolan (M.A. 1967)
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Ashley Null (M.Div., S.T.M.), Anglican theologian
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William H. Poteat (B.D. 1944)
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Clark V. Poling (1936)
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Peter L. Pond, human rights activist and philanthropist.
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Adam Clayton Powell, Sr. (attended 1895–1896)
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V.C. Samuel (PhD. 1957), Theologian and Historian.
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Ron Sider
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Amos Alonzo Stagg
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Barbara Brown Taylor (M.Div. 1976)
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Roy M. Terry (B.D. 1942)
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R. A. Torrey (B.D. 1878)
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Glenn M. Wagner (M.Div. 1978)
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Chester Wickwire (B.D. 1946)
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Parker T. Williamson (M.Phil.)
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William Willimon (M.Div. 1971)
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== Notable past professors ==
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=== Former faculty: 20th–21st centuries ===
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Roland Bainton
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Brevard Childs
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Rebecca Chopp
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Adela Yarbro Collins, 2000–2015
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Jerome Davis
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Margaret Farley
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Hans Wilhelm Frei
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Serene Jones
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David Kelsey
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Kenneth Scott Latourette
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George Lindbeck
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Sallie McFague
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Douglas Clyde Macintosh
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Abraham Malherbe
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Reinhold Niebuhr
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H. Richard Niebuhr
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Henri Nouwen, 1971–1981
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Liston Pope (Dean)
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Letty M. Russell (1974–2001)
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Lamin Sanneh
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Emilie Townes
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Denys Turner
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Nicholas Wolterstorff
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Henry Burt Wright (1877-1923)
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=== Former faculty: 19th century ===
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Lyman Beecher
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George Park Fisher
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== Current faculty ==
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Harold W. Attridge
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William Barber II
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Teresa Berger
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John J. Collins
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Bruce Gordon
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Margaret A. Farley
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Margot Elsbeth Fassler
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John E. Hare
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Jennifer A. Herdt
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Martin Jean
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Willie James Jennings
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David Kelsey
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Andrew McGowan
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Teresa Morgan
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Sally M. Promey
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Bryan D. Spinks
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Harry S. Stout
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Kathryn Tanner
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Linn Tonstad
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Jacqueline Vayntrub
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Miroslav Volf
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Tisa Wenger
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Christian Wiman
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Adela Yarbro Collins
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== See also ==
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General Theological Seminary, a separate New Haven institution now located in New York City
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== References ==
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== External links ==
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Yale Divinity School website
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Berkeley Divinity School at Yale
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Andover Newton Seminary at Yale |