Our program requires, for example, that students study Greek to enable them to read the New Testament in its original language. While Yale Divinity School encourages this, it is not required for graduation. Dean Bartlett and Dean Turner also serve on the committee ex officio, as does Carl Sharon, Yale's Lutheran chaplain. The Yale Divinity School is interdenominational and nonsectarian. The faculty is drawn from the major Christian traditions and the students represent about 50 denominations and groups.
Instruction is provided in the history, doctrines, and polity of all the major church bodies.
In addition, students do supervised ministry in area churches and social service agencies, as well as study preaching and counseling. The Divinity School offers programs of study leading to the degrees of Master of Divinity, Master of Arts in Religion, and Master of Sacred Theology. Programs for the Doctor of Philosophy are offered by the Department of Religious Studies in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.