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...Robert Oppenheimer and several other scientists about what he was as the problems of the Divinity School, Conant posed three questions. The first was whether the Harvard Divinity School should exist at all. Conant's commission later raised several million dollars to follow its own recommendation that the Div School must be "completely reorganized and rehabilitated and not merely patched...
...Div School was then a center of political activism, particularly anti-McCarthyism, and as it became more important as a religious opinion and religious activism grew steadily. This year, a majority of the Div School's faculty proclaimed its support for the nuclear freeze movement in an advertisement circulated widely in national religious magazines...
Though Harvard's Divinity School remains a stronghold of theological liberalism and social action, even here officials and students are beginning to recognize the evangelical trend. Jane I. Smith, dean of academic affairs at the Div School, says that faculty members have discussed establishing a chair in evangelical studies. While resources are not adequate to fund such a chair, Smith calls the discussions a recognition on the part of the Div School that the historical and theological study of evangelical Christianity "has not been adequately covered" at Harvard. She says that more and more attention has been focused on evangelism...
Evangelism--its philosophy and techniques--extends from the Rev. Jerry Falwell's brand of fundamentalism, which includes conservative political action and endorsements of candidates to socially oriented churches such as the Society of Friends and the Mennonites. These "peace churches are definitely evangelical," says Mark Smutny, a third-year Div School student. Many biblical Christian churches, such as the Southern Baptists, fall somewhere in between these two extremes and comprise the mainstream of American evangelism...
...year visiting professorship "complements the work of the Center of Jewish Studies," George V. Rupp, dean of the Div School, said yesterday. Some of the new courses taught by the List Professors will be open to undergraduates, be added...