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      • The University of Chicago Divinity School is a private graduate institution at the University of Chicago dedicated to the training of academics and clergy across religious boundaries. Formed under Baptist auspices, the school today lacks any sectarian affiliations.
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  2. The University of Chicago Divinity School is a private graduate institution at the University of Chicago dedicated to the training of academics and clergy across religious boundaries. Formed under Baptist auspices, the school today lacks any sectarian affiliations.

  3. A global leader in the study of religion, the Divinity School approaches religious studies and religious leadership with attention to inquiry, innovation, and awareness of how scholarship impacts questions of public and contemporary concern.

  4. History. William Rainey Harper, the first president of the University of Chicago, was also a distinguished Semiticist and a member of the Baptist clergy. He believed that a great research university ought to have as one of its central occupations the scholarly study of religion.

  5. Divinity School Facts. The Divinity School was the University of Chicago's first professional school, established at the founding of the University. Many of the most important developments within the study of religion had their genesis at the Divinity School: the traditions of “empirical” theology and process thought; sociology of religion ...

  6. Having taught at what was then the Baptist Theological Union Seminary, Harper incorporated it into the University of Chicago as its Divinity School, the first professional school at the university.

  7. establishment of the University of Chicago Divinity School, the Baptist Theological Union has continued its existence as a separate organization with its own Board, overseeing an endowment that provides support to the Divinity School.

  8. The Divinity School offers four degree programs—the Master of Arts in Religious Studies (AMRS), the Master of Arts in Divinity (MA), the Master of Divinity (MDiv), and the Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D).