Berkeley Divinity SchoolArchives 1854-1994

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Berkeley Divinity SchoolArchives 1854-1994

http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/divinity.216

These are the official archives of Berkeley DivinitySchool, a seminary of the Episcopal Church, which affiliated with Yale DivinitySchool in 1971.

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Yake University Divinity School Library

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Berkeley Divinity School's origins go back to the Anglo-Irish bishop and philosopher George Berkeley, who dreamed of building a seminary in the New World that would express the breadth of the Anglican tradition in new environs. While Berkeley's vision never materialized in his own lifetime, he left his farm in Newport, Rhode Island, and library of theological books to the youthful Yale College in 1733. These books, which formed a core of Yale's early collection, played a significant...