What does it mean when a school of God shutters?
Students and faculty at Episcopal Divinity School in Boston are still reeling from the announcement that it would cease granting degrees after 2017 and is exploring options for its students, faculty, campus and remaining endowment. This announcement followed the similar, but more startling, May news that the country’s oldest graduate school of theology, Andover-Newton, would sell its campus, phase out most of its faculty, and merge a remnant with Yale Divinity School. It is not news that the Protestant mainline in America has been declining since the 1970s. Yet markers of the tradition’s slide continue to make headlines.
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