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Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania

Bryn Athyn is also the site of the General Church affiliated Academy of the New Church, which is the parent organization of the Academy of the New Church Secondary Schools, Bryn Athyn College, a divinity school, and the Swedenborg Library (which was named in honor of Emanuel Swedenborg).

Lexington Theological Seminary

Lexington Theological Seminary is an accredited graduate theological institution located in Lexington, Kentucky.


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Alister McGrath

He spent the fall semester of 1990 as the Ezra Squire Tipple Visiting Professor of Historical Theology at the Divinity School of Drew University, Madison, New Jersey.

Cobb Divinity School

From 1854 to 1870, the divinity school was located in New Hampton, New Hampshire and affiliated with the New Hampton Institute.

In 1888, it was renamed Cobb Divinity School in honor of J.L.H Cobb, a prominent businessman at the Bates Mill in Lewiston who had donated $25,000 to the Divinity School at Bates.

David L. Bartlett

He has also been on the faculty at schools such as American Baptist Seminary of the West and Graduate Theological Union, The Divinity School of The University of Chicago , Union Theological Seminary in Richmond, Virginia, Yale Divinity School, and Columbia Theological Seminary.

George Burman Foster

George Burman Foster (1858–1919) was part of the faculty in the Divinity School (Baptist) at the University of Chicago under the leadership of William Rainey Harper.

Henry Rago

He was also a Professor of Theology and Literature at the University of Chicago jointly in the Divinity School and in the New Collegiate Division.

Howard Kester

In the late 1920s, Kester enrolled in the divinity school of Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee.

John Punnett Peters

He was professor of Old Testament languages and literature at the Protestant Episcopal Divinity School in Philadelphia (1884 -91) and professor of Hebrew at the University of Pennsylvania (1885-93) and from 1888 to 1895 conducted excavations at Nippur with John Henry Haynes and Hermann Volrath Hilprecht.

Letty M. Russell

In an introduction to a Festschrift published in Russell's honor in 1999 under the title Liberating Eschatology, fellow Yale Divinity School theologians Margaret Farley and Serene Jones called Russell's influence on contemporary theology "monumental" and wrote of her "uncanny ability to articulate a vision of the church that is radical in its feminist-liberationist critique but that nonetheless remains anchored in the historic traditions and communities of the Christian church."

Promoting Enduring Peace

In its early years PEP was led by Davis and Dr. Roland Bainton, both Yale Divinity School professors, and its executive directors were retired Christian ministers.

Robert H. Gundry

Gaebelein pronounced acceptable Gundry’s revised version as well; but Tenney and Boice objected again, so that D. A. Carson of Trinity Evangelical Divinity School was assigned to write on Matthew.

Samuel C. Damon

Before studying for the ministry, he was for a year principal of the academy at Salisbury, Connecticut, and while in the divinity school was tutor in a private family in Burlington, New Jersey.

Seabury-Western Theological Seminary

It was formed in 1933 by a merger of Western Theological Seminary of Evanston (founded in 1883 in Chicago), and Seabury Divinity School of Faribault, Minnesota (founded in 1858).

Yale University Library

Other important libraries include the Lillian Goldman Law Library, with nearly 800,000 volumes, the Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library (including its noteworthy collection of historical medical works), the Irving S. Gilmore Music Library, and the Divinity School Library.