Harvard Divinity School - Notable Professors

Notable Professors

• James Luther Adams, the most influential theologian among American Unitarian Universalists in the 20th century, who had been reared among the Plymouth Brethren, but who built his reputation by filming interviews of anti-Hitler underground resistance neo-Orthodox German theologians and Protestant church leaders.
• Leila Ahmed, professor of women's studies and scholar of Islam
• Charles G. Adams, William and Lucille Nickerson Professor of the Practice of Ethics and Ministry
• François Bovon, prolific scholar in New Testament and Christian Apocrypha
• Davíd Carrasco, scholar of Latin American religion and culture
• Francis Xavier Clooney, comparative theologian and scholar of Hinduism
• Harvey Cox, author of "The Secular City"
• Diana L. Eck, scholar of Hinduism and founder of The Pluralism Project
• Peter J. Gomes (1942-2011), Pusey Minister in the Memorial Church and Plummer Professor of Christian Morals
• Janet Gyatso, scholar of Tibetan Buddhism, history, and culture
• William A. Graham, Dean of the School, comparative historian and scholar of Islam
• Charles Hallisey, scholar of Therevada Buddhism,
• David Hempton, Dean-designate of the School, historian of Methodism and Evangelical Protestantism
• Michael Jackson (anthropologist), anthropologist and novelist
• Baber Johansen, scholar of Islamic law
• Karen King, author of "What is Gnosticism?" and "The Gospel of Mary Magdala"

• Gordon D. Kaufman, liberal Mennonite pacifist theologian and author of God the Problem
• Helmut Koester, New Testament scholar
• Jon D. Levenson, scholar of Hebrew Bible and Jewish studies
• Arthur Chute McGill, Canadian born American Theologian and Philosopher and Harvard Graduate (1941) Arthur C. McGill (1926-1980) was the Bussey Professor of Theology at Harvard from 1971 until 1980. His books include Suffering: A Test of Theological Method (1968, 1982) and the posthumous Death and Life: An American Theology (1987, 2003).
• Henri Nouwen (1983–1985), Professor of Divinity and Horace De Y. Lentz Lecturer
• John G. Palfrey, clergyman, historian, and U.S. Representative
• Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza, feminist New Testament scholar
• Robert William Scribner (1941–1998), Reformation historian
• Wilfred Cantwell Smith, former director of the school's Center for the Study of World Religions
• Ronald Frank Thiemann, Christian theologian and dean of the Divinity School from 1986 to 1998
• Paul Tillich (1886-1965), Protestant theologian and Christian existentialist
• Henry Ware, Jr., (1794–1843), Unitarian theologian
• Henry Ware, Sr. (1764–1845), prominent early Unitarian theologian
• C. Conrad Wright (1917-2011), historian of American Congregationalism and Unitarianism
• George Ernest Wright (1958–1974), Parkman Professor of Divinity; (1961–1974) Curator of the Semitic Museum, Presbyterian, leading Old Testament scholar and biblical archaeologist