Faculty Book

"This book is worth reading for many reasons, but here is another: by sharing her honest curiosity, HDS Professor Michlle Sanchez invites us to attend more closely to the world and our work in it."

Two new books—HDS Visiting Professor of Modern Jewish Studies Shaul Magid’s The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance, completed just before October 7, and Noah Feldman’s To Be a Jew Today: A New Guide to God, Israel, and the Jewish People, written...

In his recent book Forgiveness: An Alternate Account, HDS Professor Matthew Ichihashi Potts quotes his colleague the theologian Mark Jordan on the Gospels: “They are contradictory stories studded with paradoxical aphorisms. Every theology that is not...

Brandon Thomas Crowley, an African-American minister and a lecturer in Ministry Studies at Harvard Divinity School, provides an systematic approach for dismantling heteronormativity within African American congregations by first outlining a history of...

The Catholic Theological Society of America announced that the current president of the CTSA and HDS Professor Francis X. Clooney, SJ, will have a Festschrift published in his honor in late 2023. Co-editors Axel Takacs, ThD '19, and Joseph Kimmel, MDiv...

When a crime is committed or moral injury occurs, we often respond in one of two ways: we condemn the offense and seek redress, or we declare our willingness to forgive and move on. But a reflexive willingness to pardon—though praised by the Christian...

A popular course taught by Professor Matthew Ichihashi Potts at Harvard Divinity School explores the concept of forgiveness and asks when we're obligated to forgive, what forgiveness should look like, and what conditions should be attached to it.

In Forgiveness: An Alternative Account, Professor Matthew Ichihashi Potts argues that we need a new framework for thinking about forgiveness. For scaffolding, he turns to novels by four writers: Kazuo Ishiguro, Marilynne Robinson, Louise Erdrich, and Toni...

HDS Professor Matthew Ichihashi Potts draws on early Christian texts and fiction by Kazuo Ishiguro and Louise Erdrich to offer an understanding of forgiveness as a “refusal of retaliatory violence.”