Ateist izabran za glavnog kapelana Harvarda

by **Hektorović** 27/8/2021, 12:17

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/26/us/harvard-chaplain-greg-epstein.html

The New Chief Chaplain at Harvard? An Atheist.

The elevation of Greg Epstein, author of “Good Without God,” reflects a broader trend of young people who increasingly identify as spiritual but religiously nonaffiliated.

Aug. 26, 2021

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Greg Epstein has been Harvard’s humanist chaplain since 2005.Cody O'Loughlin for The New York Times

The Puritan colonists who settled in New England in the 1630s had a nagging concern about the churches they were building: How would they ensure that the clergymen would be literate? Their answer was Harvard University, a school that was established to educate the ministry and adopted the motto “Truth for Christ and the Church.” It was named after a pastor, John Harvard, and it would be more than 70 years before the school had a president who was not a clergyman.
Nearly four centuries later, Harvard’s organization of chaplains has elected as its next president an atheist named Greg Epstein, who takes on the job this week.