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Yale Divinity School
409 Prospect St., New Haven, CT 06511,USA
Phone: 01 - 203 432 5303

http://www.yale.edu/divinity/

Scholars Involved

Prof. Christopher A. Beeley, Professor of Anglican Studies and Patristics

Prof. John E. Hare, Professor of Philosophical Theology

Prof. Carolyn J. Sharp, Associate Professor of Hebrew Scriptures

Prof. Kathryn Tanner, Professor of Theology 

Prof. Christopher A. Beeley

Professor of Anglican Studies and Patristics

Yale University Divinity School and
Berkeley Divinity School at Yale
409 Prospect Street
New Haven, CT 06511
USA

Phone: (+1)203-432 5324
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Homepage: http://www.yale.edu/divinity/faculty/Fac.CBeeley.shtml

Research Profile

Professor Beeley's research centers on the interconnections between dogmatic theology, biblical exegesis, and Christian practice in the early Church. He is currently writing a major new analysis of Patristic Christology with these intersections in mind, and a book on the key principles of church leadership in the early Church.

Teaching Profile

At Yale Divinity School Professor Beeley teaches courses in early Christian theology, history, and spirituality, and Anglican Studies.

Selected Publications

Gregory of Nazianzus on the Trinity and the Knowledge of God: In Your Light We Shall See Light. Oxford Studies in Historical Theology. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.

(ed. with J. Britton) Toward a Theology of Leadership. Anglican Theological Review 91.1 (2009).

"Divine Causality and the Monarchy of God the Father in Gregory of Nazianzus," in: Harvard Theological Review 100 (2007), 199-214.

"Gregory of Nazianzus on the Unity of Christ," in: Peter Martens (ed.): In the Shadow of the Incarnation: Essays on Jesus Christ in the Early Church in Honor of Brian E. Daley, SJ. South Bend, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008, 97-120.

"Theology and Pastoral Leadership," in: Christopher A. Beeley/Joseph H. Britton (ed.s), Toward a Theology of Leadership. Anglican Theological Review 91 (2009), 11-30.

"Eusebius Contra Marcellum: Anti-Modalist Doctrine and Orthodox Christology," in: Zeitschrift für Antikes Christentum 12 (2009), 433-52.

"Cyril of Alexandria and Gregory of Nazianzus: Tradition and Complexity in Patristic Christology," in: Journal of Early Christian Studies 17 (2009), 381-419.

"The Holy Spirit in Gregory Nazianzen: The Pneumatology of Oration 31," in: A.B. McGowan et al. (ed.s): God in Early Christian Thought: Essays in Memory of Lloyd G. Patterson. Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae 94. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2009, 151-62.

"Apollinarius, Diodore, and Gregory Nazianzen: The Emergent Christological Controversy." Vigiliae Christianae, forthcoming 2010.

"The Holy Spirit in the Cappadocians: Past and Present," in: Modern Theology, forthcoming 2010.

Prof. John E. Hare

Professor of Philosophical Theology

Yale Divinity School
409 Prospect St.
New Haven, CT 06511,USA

Phone: 01 - 203 432 5343

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Homepage: http://www.yale.edu/divinity/faculty/Fac.JHare.shtml

Research Profile

Ancient philosophy, medieval Franciscan philosophy, Kant, Kierkegaard, contemporary ethical theory, the theory of the atonement, medical ethics, international relations, aesthetics

Teaching Profile

Coming soon.

Selcted Publications

God and Morality: A Philosophical History. Hoboken NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009.

God's Call: Moral Realism, God's Commands, and Human Autonomy. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2001.

The Moral Gap: Kantian Ethics, Human Limits, and God's Assistance. Oxford Studies in Theological Ethics, New York: Clarendon Press/Oxford University Press, 1997.

Plato Euthyphro. Bryn Mawr Commentaries, Indianapolis: Hackett, 2nd ed., 1985.

(together with C. B. Joynt) Ethics and International Affairs. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 1982.

‘Immanuel Kant’ in: A. Hastings/A. Manson et al. (ed.s): Key Thinkers in Christianity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003, 92-97.

‘Christian Scholarship and Human Responsibility’, in: S. Felch (ed.): Christian Scholarship … for
What? Calvin College, 2003, 51-69.

‘Kantian Moral Education and Service-Learning’ in: G. Heffner/C. Berersluis (ed.s): Commitment and
Connection: Service-Learning and Christian Higher Education. Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America, 2002, 3-95.

‘Duns Scotus on Morality and Nature’, in: Medieval Philosophy and Theology, 9 (2001), 1-39.

Prof. Carolyn J. Sharp

Associate Professor of Hebrew Scriptures

409 Prospect Street
New Haven, Connecticut 06511 USA

Phone (Office): 203-432-2011
Phone (Home): 860-347-9752

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Homepage: http://www.yale.edu/divinity/faculty/personal/Sharp/Carolynsharp.html

Research Profile

Professor Sharp's research explores the composition, redaction, and rhetoric of Hebrew Scripture texts. In recent articles, she has examined the representation of Hebrew Bible traditions in the Septuagint and the Dead Sea Scrolls, urged the creation of a multivocal Old Testament theology shaped by the notion of diaspora identity, and explored the potential of Old Testament hermeneutics to address contemporary ecclesial debates. In her publications discuss divergent understandings of the prophet in the prose of Jeremiah and literary and theological aspects of irony in Old Testament texts. Her latest book presents the Old Testament prophets in terms accessible to contemporary Christian believers.

Teaching Profile

Character and Community in the Biblical Short Story: Jonah, Ruth, Esther
Contemporary Christian Theologies of the Old Testament
Dangerous Holiness: Theology of the Prophet Ezekiel
Exorcising Marcion's Ghost: Claiming the Sacred in Difficult Old Testament Texts
Gender, Sex, and Power in the Books of Ruth and Esther
Godly Skepticism: The Book of Ecclesiastes and Its Reception in Early Christian Tradition
Hermeneutics and Authority: Reading Isaiah in Community
Irony and Meaning in the Hebrew Bible
Tradition and Ideology in the Book of Jeremiah

Selected Publications

Old Testament Prophets for Today. In press with Westminster John Knox Press; scheduled for publication in February 2009.

Irony and Meaning in the Hebrew Bible. In press with Indiana University Press; scheduled for Publication in December 2008.

Prophecy and Ideology in Jeremiah: Struggles for Authority in the Deutero-Jeremianic Prose. London: T & T Clark, 2003.

Wrestle This Word: The Hebrew Scriptures and the Christian Believer. Book manuscript in progress; under contract with Westminster John Knox Press.

“Interrogating the Violent God of Hosea: A Conversation with Walter Brueggemann, Alice Keefe, and Ehud Ben Zvi.” Horizons in Biblical Theology 30 (2008): 59-70.

“Jeremiah.” Forthcoming in A Theological Bible Commentary, edited by Gail R. O'Day and David L. Petersen (for Westminster John Knox Press); volume scheduled for publication in April 2009.

“Beyond Prooftexting” in Gays and the Future of Anglicanism: Responses to the Windsor Report. Andrew Linzey and Richard Kirker, eds. New York: John Hunt Publishing, 2005: 30-48.

“The Trope of `Exile' and the Displacement of Old Testament Theology.” Perspectives in Religious Studies 31 (2004): 153-69.

“Ironic Representation, Authorial Voice, and Meaning in Qohelet.” Biblical Interpretation 12 (2004): 37-68.

“The Call of Jeremiah and Diaspora Politics.” Journal of Biblical Literature 119 (2000): 421-38.

Prof. Kathryn Tanner

Professor of Theology

Research Profile

Prof. Tanner explores the practical force of Christian beliefs about God's relation to the world, engaging in dialog with cultural studies and economics.

Teaching Profile

Prof. Tanner does constructive Christian theology in the Protestant tradition with the intent of addressing contemporary challenges to belief through the creative use of both the history of Christian thought and interdisciplinary methods, such as critical, social, and feminist theory.

Selected Publications

God and Creation in Christian Theology. Minneapolis: Augsburg Fortress Publishers, 2004.

The Politics of God. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1992.

Theories of Culture: A New Agenda for Theology. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 1997.

Jesus, Humanity, and the Trinity: A Brief Systematic Theology. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 2001.

Economy of Grace. Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2005.

Prof. Miroslav Volf

Professor of Systematic Theology, Director Yale Center for Faith and Culture

Yale Divinity School
409 Prospect St.
New Haven, CT 06511,USA

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Research Profile

Prof. Volf's two newest books are Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace (Zondervan 2005) and The End of Memory: Remembering Rightly in a Violent World (Eerdmans 2006). His other books include A Passion for God’s Reign: Theology, Christian Learning, and The Christian Self (Eerdmans, 1997) and After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity (Eerdmans, 1998). The latter is the inaugural volume in the Sacra Doctrina: Christian Theology for a Postmodern Age series edited by Alan G. Padgett. Miroslav is also editor, with Dorothy C. Bass, of Practicing Theology: Beliefs and Practices in Christian Life (Eerdmans, 2001). This is a collection of essays by 13 theologians who, from several cultural and Christian perspectives, explore the relationship between Christian theology and practice in the daily lives of believers, in the ministry of Christian communities, and as a needed focus within Christian education. He has written more than 70 scholarly articles and hundreds of popular editorials and articles.

Teaching Profile

Miroslav teaches theology at Yale Divinity School and Yale College. In addition to teaching required courses in systematic theology, he teaches courses on the theology of Luther, on grace and forgiveness, and many others. A native of Croatia, he has forged a theology of forgiveness and non-violence in the face of the horrendous violence experienced in Croatia and Serbia in the 1990s. While he maintains active interest in many aspects of faith’s relation to culture, his work has primarily focused on theological understandings of work, the church, the Trinity, violence, reconciliation and memory. He teaches a variety of seminars on central themes of theology, for instance "God in modern thought," as well as regular introductory courses in systematic theology. Other seminars that he teaches are at the intersection of theology and aspects of contemporary life. Presently he is involved in a research project under the title "God and human flourishing."

Selcted Publications

The End of Memory: Remembering rightly in a violent world (2006).

God’s life in trinity (ed., 2006).

Free of charge: Giving and forgiving in a culture stripped of grace (2005).

A passion for god’s reign: Theology, Christian learning, and the Christian self (ed. 1998).

After our likeness: The church as the image of the trinity (1998).

(with J. Gundry-Volf) A spacious heart: Essays on identity and belonging (1997).

Exclusion and embrace: A theological exploration of identity, otherness and reconciliation (1996).

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Prof. Christopher A. Beeley, Professor of Anglican Studies and Patristics

Prof. John E. Hare, Professor of Philosophical Theology

Prof. Carolyn J. Sharp, Associate Professor of Hebrew Scriptures 

Prof. Kathryn Tanner, Professor of Theology 

Prof. Miroslav Volf, Professor of Systematic Theology