Word: div
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...called inclusive language in their lectures, reflecting the view that any god who is addressed as "He" cannot be meaningful for all people. Consequently, professors use words like "Godself" to replace "He" and "the Nurturer" to replace "the Father." As one student observes, "It's very uncool at the Div School not to use inclusive language...
Calling the endowment a "major initiative by a denominational group to sponsor a non-denominational school." Divinity School Dean Erik Rupp said "we would love to see all the other denominational groups we educate take similar steps." The Div School presently serves 46 denominations...
YEARS IN COLLEGE: 1952-1956. HOUSE AFFILIATION: Eliot. DEGREES: A. B., 1956; M. DIV. (General Theological Seminary), 1959; M. ED. (Boston Coll...
...Div. School Dean George Rupp stressed at the time that he hoped faculty members at other seminaries would follow the land of the Div School professors and students. At least the other school in the area, the Andover-Newton Theological Seminary, immediately circulated a similar statement, calling for a immediate U.S.-Soviet freeze on the production of nuclear weapons...
Suddenly the Div School began looking like the "new and revitalized school at the University that would have a nationwide influence" that Walter H. Trumbull, the vice-chairman of Conant's Div School Endowment Fund, envisioned. But the school's most visible nationwide influence this year was on political activism, not theology...