Academics
Traditionally, American theological education has long ignored the concerns and contributions of the black religious experience, a circumstance that the Divinity School curriculum addresses through (1) offering courses whose content and methods draw upon scholarship about and by Africans and African-Americans and (2) the inclusion of African and African-American scholarship in courses throughout the curriculum.
Lastly, yet most significantly, Duke Divinity School is the first school in the nation to have a required class in black church studies for all of its M.Div. students. We have faculty members who teach classes in Black Church theology and address many of the requisite theological disciplines including: African and African-American religious history, biblical studies, theology, spirituality, congregational studies, preaching, pneumatology, and sociology.