The Teaching Faculty Book provides brief biographical information for all members of the Divinity School faculty, and also for associated faculty and visitors who offer courses as part of the Divinity School curriculum in the academic year designated.

A full listing of the School’s instructors that includes the complete list of emeritus faculty and Chicago-area ministers who are serving as teaching pastors in the M.Div. curriculum can be found online at http://divinity.uchicago.edu/faculty.

The University of Chicago Divinity School is a graduate institution at the University of Chicago dedicated to the training of academics and clergy across religious boundaries.

Formed under Baptist auspices, the school today lacks any sectarian tests or affiliations, despite having a largely Judeo-Christian numerical leaning in terms of its faculty and student body in line with other University affiliated divinity schools in the United States.

Along with the departments of religious studies/religion at Harvard, Yale and Columbia University, it is responsible for training the majority of those appointed to tenure track positions in religious studies at American universities.

It is ranked number one in the field of religious studies according to the National Research Council 's measure of faculty quality in its survey of all doctoral granting programs in religious studies, training Ph.D's in history of religions, anthropology and sociology of religion, religion and literature, history of Christianity, history of Judaism, Islamic studies, biblical studies, philosophy of religion, theology and religious ethics. (wikipedia.org)

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2 Daniel A. Arnold
3 Hans Dieter Betz
3 Robert Bird
4 Philip V. Bohlman
4 Kevin Boyd
5 Catherine Brekus
5 Frank Burch Brown
6 Daniel Brudney
6 Steven Collins
6 Kathleen Neils Conzen
7 Ryan David Coyne
7 Kristine A. Culp
8 Arnold I. Davidson
8 Wendy Doniger
9 Jean Bethke Elshtain
10 Curtis J. Evans
10 Christopher Faraone
11 Michael Fishbane
11 Richard Fox
12 Rachel Fulton
12 Franklin I. Gamwell
13 W. Clark Gilpin
13 Kevin Hector
14 Dwight N. Hopkins
14 Matthew Kapstein
15 Hans-Josef Klauck
16 Bruce Lincoln
16 Cynthia Gano Lindner
17 Jean-Luc Marion
17 David Martinez
18 Omar McRoberts
18 Françoise Meltzer
19 Paul Mendes-Flohr
19 Stephen C. Meredith
20 Margaret M. Mitchell
20 Michael J. Murrin
21 Martha C. Nussbaum
22 Willemien Otten
22 Lucy K. Pick
23 Martin Riesebrodt
24 James T. Robinson
24 Richard A. Rosengarten
25 J. David Schloen
25 Susan Schreiner
26 William Schweiker
26 Michael Sells
27 Jonathan Z. Smith
27 Jeffrey Stackert
28 Josef Stern
28 Richard Strier
29 Kathryn Tanner
29 Christian K. Wedemeyer
30 Malika Zeghal

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Welcome to the Divinity School

Dean Rosengarten From its inception, the Divinity School has pursued William Rainey Harper's vision of an institution devoted to systematic research and inquiry into the manifold dimensions of religion. Today it is the institutional home to over thirty faculty teaching in constructive studies, historical studies, and religion and the human sciences; more than three hundred students pursuing the M.A., Ph.D., and M.Div. degrees; the major scholarly journals History of Religions and the Journal of Religion; and the Martin Marty Center, which promotes research projects, consultations, and dissertation seminars, with special attention to enhancing the fullest scholarly engagement with the wider public.

We enjoy extraordinarily rich relations with the wider University. Cross-disciplinary work has always been and continues to be the standard. Fully two-thirds of the current faculty hold appointments in other departments or schools of the University. It is the unusual student transcript that does not show substantial course work completed outside Swift Hall, and the rare Divinity course roster that does not include students from elsewhere in the University. Dissertation committees regularly include faculty whose appointments are in South Asian Languages and Civilizations, Philosophy, Law, or Classics. Students have the option of pursuing dual degree programs with the Schools of Social Service Administration, Public Policy, or Law. To enroll in this Divinity School is to enroll in this University.

Chicago reflects only one orthodoxy: that the rules of evidence and argument must discipline conversation, and that such rules are especially important when the topic is religion. Our faculty and students present a remarkable range of attitudes about religion as a force for good and for ill in the world. These attitudes bespeak the shared view that religion is one of our most fascinating and enduring windows into central truths about human life and being. The School aims to develop out of that conviction the richest possible conversation, and direct it to the central, complementary ends of scholarly excellence and moral engagement.

Sincere thanks for your interest in the Divinity School.

Cordially,
Richard A. Rosengarten
Dean

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