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Only five Harvard faculty members and administrators traditionally enjoy free housing. Bok, Spence, Radcliffe President Matina S. Horner, the Rev. Peter J. Gomes, Plummer Professor of Christian Morals, and Divinity School Dean Ronald Thiemann all live rent-free...
...This generous gift ensures, in a way the Divinity School never could before, continuation of an association that is a wellspring of the HDS identity," said Ronald F. Thiemann, dean...
Both Bok and Hanson said Thiemann's ideas ofuniting the practical and theoretical study ofreligion and then making the product available toscholars in other parts of the University is thebest solution to the Divinity School's identitycrisis...
...With Thiemann's plan, "we will allowtheological reflection to permeate all aspects ofthe school's curriculum," Hanson said. "This willgive us something to unify" practical andhistorical training in religion...
Most other faculty also sympathized withThiemann's plan. "It's important to turn thingsaround and overcome this bifurcation" of religiousscholarship, said Parkman Professor of DivinityJohn B. Carman, who served as the school's actingdean before Thiemann took over...