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...self-proclaimed hippie with a never-settled quest for religious understanding, Philip Clayton—a visiting professor this year at the Harvard Divinity School (HDS)—has spent the past year encouraging the exploration of the delicate balance between the study of science and the study of religion, an interest motivated in part by his own uncertainties of faith...
This discussion of the interaction of science and religion stretches beyond academia, says Mark U. Edwards, Jr., associate dean for academic administration at HDS. It enters the public sphere through the debates about intelligent design and stem cell research as well as through bestselling books such as “The God Delusion” by secular scientist Richard Dawkins...
...HDS, the creation of a new professorship dedicated to this very subject is in the works. The Watson Chair in Science and Religion “could make Harvard the world’s center in the academic discussion of science and religion,” says Clayton, who says he is vying for the post. According to Edwards, the position will not be filled until the fall...
Even this year, through Clayton’s presence as a visiting professor, students at HDS as well as the College were able to test the waters of the field through Clayton’s two classes—“Rethinking Religion in Light of Contemporary Science” and “Scientific Perspectives on Consciousness and Religious Experience...
...accept the possibility of a world without spirituality.But in a small cluster of buildings just north of the Law School, Harvard quietly continues to prep men and women for the ministry. It’s no seminary, but the Master of Divinity (MDiv) program at the Harvard Divinity School (HDS) offers a three-year professional degree that, in theory, prepares students to enter any and all religious ordination processes.But unlike at Harvard Law School—where, according to the school’s Assistant Dean for Career Services, 94% of last year’s graduates began practicing...