Rev. Yejide Peters Pietersen
Associate Dean and Director of Formation at Berkeley Divinity School at Yale.
Rev. William Goettler
Associate Dean for Ministerial and Social Leadership, Lecturer in Parish Leadership and Church Administration
Dr. Judith Gundry
Professor Gundry is a Research Scholar and Associate Professor (Adjunct) of New Testament at Yale Divinity School. She taught at the Evandjeosko-Teoloski-Fakultet in the former Yugoslavia (1986-1991) and Fuller Theological Seminary, Pasadena, California (1991-1998), before coming to YDS in 1998. Her book, Paul and Perseverance: Staying In and Falling Away, deals with the relationship between divine faithfulness and human faith/faithfulness in the letters of Paul (Westminster/John Knox, 1991). She is the author of numerous articles on women, gender, and children in early Christianity, as well as on the apostle Paul’s understanding of Jesus’s death, universalism, divine foreknowledge and beneficence, and […]
Dr. John E. Hare
John Hare is the Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology. His book, God and Morality: A Philosophical History gives a framework for a history of ethics, emphasizing the theological premises present in the original versions of the main types of ethical theory. An earlier book, The Moral Gap, develops an account of the need for God’s assistance in meeting the moral demand of which God is the source. He has also written a commentary on Plato’s Euthyphro in the Bryn Mawr series, and Ethics and International Affairs with Carey B. Joynt. His interests extend to ancient philosophy, medieval Franciscan philosophy, […]
Christian Wiman
Christian Wiman is Professor of the Practice of Religion and Literature and is the author, editor, or translator of ten books, including Hammer is the Prayer: Selected Poems (FSG, 2016), My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer (FSG, 2013), and Stolen Air: Selected Poems of Osip Mandelstam (HarperCollins/Ecco, 2012). Mr. Wiman has been a Jones Lecturer in Poetry at Stanford and a visiting assistant professor of English at Northwestern, and for three years he served as Visiting Scholar at Lynchburg College in Virginia. From 2003 until 2013 he was the editor of Poetry magazine, the premiere magazine for poetry […]
Dr. Chloe Starr
Chloe Starr is Professor of Asian Christianity and Theology and her courses explore a range of approaches to East Asian theology, including theological survey, Chinese and Japanese Christian literatures, China Mission, and Asian American theologies. She taught previously at the universities of Durham, where she was Senior Tutor of St. John’s College, and Oxford, where she taught classical Chinese literature. Professor Starr’s latest book, Chinese Theology (2016), is a study of Chinese theological texts and their ties to literary forms. She is currently editing and translating a reader in Chinese Christian theology and working on a volume on Chinese Christian […]
Dr. Erika Helgen
Erika Helgen’s research and teaching interests include Brazilian religious history, the history of Latin American Protestantism, religion and migration, the rise of religious pluralism in Latin America, and religious violence. Her book, Religious Conflict in Brazil: Protestants, Catholics, and the Rise of Religious Pluralism in the Early Twentieth Century(link is external) was published by Yale University Press in 2020. She received her Ph.D. in History from Yale University in 2015. Before joining the YDS faculty, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Collegeville Institute for Ecumenical and Cultural Research at St. John’s University.
Dr. Adam Eitel
Adam Eitel serves as Assistant Professor of Ethics. Dr. Eitel focuses his research and teaching on the history of Christian moral thought, contemporary social ethics and criticism, and modern religious thought. Dr. Eitel has roughly a dozen books, chapters, edited volumes, and articles published or in progress. These include an ethical analysis of drone strikes and a theological account of domination. His current book project explores the role of love in the moral theology of Thomas Aquinas. A 2004 Baylor University graduate and a Fulbright Scholar at the University of Fribourg, Dr. Eitel received his M.Div. and Ph.D. from Princeton […]
Awet Andemicael
Awet Andemicael is Associate Dean for Marquand Chapel and Lecturer in Theology at Yale Divinity School.
Dr. Gregory E. Sterling
Gregory E. Sterling has served as The Reverend Henry L. Slack Dean and Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament at Yale Divinity School since 2012. In October 2021, Yale President Peter Salovey announced Sterling’s appointment for a third five-year term, beginning July 1, 2022.
Sterling is the former Dean of the Graduate School of the University of Notre Dame, where he also served on the faculty for 23 years.
During his decade at YDS, Sterling has been a leading theological and moral voice for addressing inequality and injustice in society, and has worked to provide increased support for students so that graduates […]