Divinity School is founded as the “Theological Department.” Religious studies were central to a Yale education from the beginning. In 1746, the first professorship of divinity was created, and the education of all Yale undergraduates continued to be shaped throughout the nineteenth century by such earlier practices as daily chapel services. In the mid-1900s, Yale hosted the committee that created the Revised Standard Version of the Bible. Sterling Divinity Quadrangle, third home of the Divinity School; the original home was the northernmost building of the Brick Row.
