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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.
Randy L. Maddox (born 1953) is an American theologian and ordained minister in the United Methodist Church.He served until 2020 as the William Kellon Quick Professor of Wesleyan and Methodist Studies at Duke University. [1]
The history of Duke University began when Brown's Schoolhouse, a private subscription school in Randolph County, North Carolina (in the present-day town of Trinity), was founded in 1838. [1] The school was renamed to Union Institute Academy in 1841, Normal College in 1851, and to Trinity College in 1859.
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]
From 1976 to 1980, he was on the faculty of Duke Divinity School as Professor of Liturgy and Worship. After serving as pastor of Northside United Methodist Church in Greenville, South Carolina , he became Dean of the Chapel at Duke University in 1984 where he served for twenty years.
Grant Wacker is the Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Christian History at Duke Divinity School. He taught in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from 1977 to 1992.
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.
Candler School of Theology: Emory University: 1914 [4] Atlanta Boston University School of Theology: Boston University: 1839 [5] Boston Claremont School of Theology: 1885 [6] Los Angeles, California Duke Divinity School: Duke University: 1926 [7] Durham, North Carolina Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary: 1853 [8] Evanston, Illinois Iliff ...