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...acting president of Haverford College in Pennsylvania, whose scholarly interests range from Marxism to Jewish-Christian interaction, will become dean of Harvard's Divinity School July...
There is no question that this country has felt a powerful impact from the Judeo-Christian tradition. A great deal of the impact on the founding of this country, on the Constitution, and on people like Thomas Jefferson came from the Enlightenment, which offered a rational, ethical approach to government. If you push that back, it would take you to many Jewish and Christian roots. But it would be a mistake to believe that this country was founded on strict Jewish-Christian faith principles alone, because the Enlightenment influences were broader than that...
...trying to enhance its reputation as the leading theological school in the country, Harvard Divinity School has balanced itself on a budgetary razor's edge. A variety of progressive curriculum innovations in the last four years-in women's studies. Jewish-Christian relations and other multicultural approaches to religion-have boosted enrollment substantially, but the Divinity School has had a hard time finding the money...
...achieve that goal, the school beefed up its women's studies program in 1980 and attracted funds for an Albert A. List visiting professorship, which hosts a different professor each year in the field of Jewish-Christian relations. Working with the Center for the Study of World Religions, the Divinity School also founded a program in comparative social values...
...strong points of the Divinity School is that there's a good mix of people who have primarily academic interests and people who have more practical aims," says Richard E. Cohen, another second-year MTS candidate who studies the Jewish-Christian relationship...