{"id":26,"date":"2013-09-17T13:23:36","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T18:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/?page_id=26"},"modified":"2023-07-26T16:51:52","modified_gmt":"2023-07-26T21:51:52","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Divinity School seeks to fulfill the following objectives: to engage men and women in a theological understanding of religious traditions; to help persons, both lay and ordained, re-envision and prepare for the practice of Christian ministry in our time; to encourage individuals in their spiritual and intellectual growth; to prepare leaders who will be agents of social justice; and to educate future scholars and teachers of religion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1109\/2013\/09\/Div-School-Pic-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-111\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1109\/2013\/09\/Div-School-Pic-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1109\/2013\/09\/Div-School-Pic-4.jpg 640w, https:\/\/cdn.vanderbilt.edu\/t2-my\/my-prd\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1109\/2013\/09\/Div-School-Pic-4-300x199.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Exploring Theological Education?<\/strong> Start <a href=\"http:\/\/divinity.vanderbilt.edu\/admissions\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Contact Admissions:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>To reach a specific member of our admissions team, please visit our main <a class=\"css-1rn59kg\" title=\"https:\/\/divinity.vanderbilt.edu\/admissions\/\" href=\"https:\/\/divinity.vanderbilt.edu\/admissions\/\" data-testid=\"link-with-safety\" data-renderer-mark=\"true\">Admissions page<\/a>. If you have general inquiries regarding M.T.S. and M.Div. admission and financial aid, they may be addressed to:<\/p>\n<p>Vanderbilt Divinity Admissions<br \/>\n411 21st Avenue South<br \/>\nNashville, TN 37240<br \/>\nPhone:\u00a0615-322-3994<\/p>\n<p>E-mail: <a href=\"mailto:divinity-admissions@vanderbilt.edu\">divinity-admissions@vanderbilt.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>For inquiries regarding the M.A. and Ph.D. admission and financial aid, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanderbilt.edu\/gdr\/index.php\">follow this link.\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Divinity School seeks to fulfill the following objectives: to engage men and women in a theological understanding of religious traditions; to help persons, both lay and ordained, re-envision and prepare for the practice of Christian ministry in our time; to encourage individuals in their spiritual and intellectual growth; to prepare leaders who will be&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1576,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1576"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3615,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/26\/revisions\/3615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/my.vanderbilt.edu\/vanderbiltdivinity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}