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The Divinity School at Duke University in Durham, North Carolina is one of ten graduate or professional schools within Duke University. It is also one of thirteen seminaries founded and supported by the United Methodist Church. It has 39 full-time and 18 part-time faculty and over 500 full-time students. The current dean of The Divinity School is the prominent New Testament scholar Richard B. Hays, who replaced the former dean L. Gregory Jones. ==History== The Divinity School was founded in 1926 as the first graduate school at Duke, following a large endowment by James B. Duke, a tobacco magnate, in 1924. The Divinity School carries on from the original founding of Trinity College at the site 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 has both faculty and students from a variety of denominations. The Divinity School building was recently renovated and also expanded. The Hugh A. Westbrook Building, which opened in 2005, is . It also contains the 315-seat Bishop W. Kenneth Goodson Chapel with -high ceilings, office space, a bookstore, cafe, outdoor patio, and a 177-seat lecture hall. The school is perhaps most noted in American theological circles for serving as a fountainhead of postliberalism or narrative theology, a movement originating in the 1960s and 1970s at Yale Divinity School. This is thanks in part due to the presence of Stanley Hauerwas, often considered one of the leading exponents of postliberal and narrative approaches to theology. ''Time Magazine'' named Hauerwas "America's Best Theologian" in 2001.〔Elshtain, Jean Bethke. (CNN/Time - America's Best ). ''Time.'' Retrieved on May 30, 2007. 〕 Duke Divinity also benefits from the resources of the Duke Endowment, providing an outlet for this fund's support of higher education and the rural church in North Carolina. Resources from this endowment go towards student internships in rural North Carolina Methodist churches, further clergy development, and other programs. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Duke Divinity School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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