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The Divinity School was founded in 1926 as the first graduate school at Duke, [1] following a large endowment by James B. Duke, a tobacco magnate, in 1924. The Divinity School carries on from the original founding of Trinity College in 1859, which provided free training for Methodist preachers in exchange for support from the church.
Geoffrey Wainwright (1939 – 17 March 2020) was an English theologian.He spent much of his career in the United States and taught at Duke Divinity School.Wainwright made major contributions to modern Methodist theology and Christian liturgy, and played a significant role on producing the text Baptism, Eucharist and Ministry, as a member of the Faith and Order Commission of the World Council ...
Richard Bevan Hays (May 4, 1948 – January 3, 2025) was an American New Testament scholar and George Washington Ivey Professor Emeritus of New Testament Duke Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina. He was an ordained minister in the United Methodist Church.
Pages in category "Duke Divinity School faculty" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Divinity School Library. The Divinity School Library is located next to Perkins Library in the Duke Divinity School. It contains 400,000 volumes, as well as various periodicals and other materials to support the study of theology and religion.
In 2000, he inaugurated Duke Divinity School’s first chair in preaching. Lischer has preached all over the world, most notably at the Washington National Cathedral, [10] and regularly at Duke University Chapel. [11] He is a former president of the Academy of Homiletics and the recipient of the Academy’s Lifetime Achievement Award. [12]
Prior to teaching at Duke Divinity School, he was the Associate Principal of Ridley Hall, Cambridge, as well as an Affiliated Lecturer in the Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. From 2000, he was an Honorary Professor at the Institute for Theology, Imagination, and the Arts at St Mary's College, University of St Andrews, in Scotland ...
In 1960, he joined the faculty at Duke Divinity School. Herzog taught Christian theology at Duke until his sudden death during a faculty meeting on October 9, 1995. In the spring of 1970, he wrote the first North American article by a white theologian on liberation theology, following James Cone 's Black Theology and Black Power published in ...