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316:, providing an outlet for this fund's support of higher education and the rural church in North Carolina. Resources from the Charlotte, North Carolina–based endowment go to underwrite Divinity School programs for field education, continuing education, the Thriving Rural Communities Initiative, and Hispanic Ministries. The Divinity School also receives support from the Ministerial Education Fund of the United Methodist Church for student financial aid, faculty support, and other core mission programs of the school. 1544: 1124: 515: 398: 33: 1556: 137: 292:
magnate, in 1924. The Divinity School carries on from the original founding of Trinity College in 1859, which provided free training for Methodist preachers in exchange for support from the church. Though the school is affiliated with the United Methodist Church, it is also ecumenical in outlook and
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The Divinity School consists of three buildings: the original Gray Building, the Langford Building, and the Westbrook Building. The most recent building is the Hugh A. Westbrook Building, which opened in 2005 and is 53,000 square feet (4,900 m). It also contains the 315-seat Bishop W. Kenneth
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Other annual student awards include the Award for Excellence in Bible, the Hoyt Hickman Award for Excellence in Liturgics, and the Jameson Jones Preaching Award.
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magazine named Hauerwas "America's Best Theologian" in 2001. Hauerwas retired in 2013, but continues to write and speak at Duke as a senior research fellow.
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Norman Wirzba, Gilbert T. Rowe Distinguished Professor of Christian Theology as well as Senior Fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University
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is the Rev. Dr. Edgardo Colón-Emeric, who assumed the deanship on August 31, 2021. Former deans include the prominent New Testament scholar
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Among its student awards, the Divinity School awards a prize for Excellence in Writing in honor of the American theologian and writer,
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Goodson Chapel with 55-foot (17 m)-high ceilings, office space, a bookstore, cafe, outdoor patio, and a 177-seat lecture hall.
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Hugh A. Westbrook (M.Div., 1970) – hospice pioneer and co-founder of Hospice Care, Inc (later
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was founded in 1926 as the first graduate school at Duke, following a large endowment by
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and Helen H.P. Manson Professor of New Testament Literature and Exegesis Emerita at
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C. Kavin Rowe, George Washington Ivey Distinguished Professor of New Testament
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The exterior of Goodson Chapel, the worship space at Duke Divinity School.
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has both faculty and students from a variety of denominations.
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Seminaries and theological colleges in North Carolina
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