Ronald Frank Thiemann

Ronald Frank Thiemann (1946 – November 29, 2012) was an American theologian who was Benjamin Bussey Professor of Theology at Harvard Divinity School. His research in large part focused on the role of religion in public life. He served as dean of Harvard Divinity School from 1986 to 1998.

Thiemann, an ordained Lutheran minister, held an M.A. from Concordia Senior College, a M.Div. from Concordia Seminary, and both an M.A. and a Ph.D. from Yale University. He was a professor in the Religion Department at Haverford College, where he also served as acting Provost and acting President (1985–86) before joining Harvard University in 1986.

Thiemann held the Benjamin Bussey Professorship of Theology, the oldest endowed chair in theology at Harvard. He was a Faculty Associate of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and was a Faculty Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School's Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, where he served on the steering committee of the center's Joint Program in Religion and Public Life. He was a Faculty Affiliate at the Kennedy School's Harvard Center for Public Leadership and received a fellowship from the center in support of his research project. He worked on a book-length project entitled Prisoners of Conscience: Public Intellectuals in a Time of Crisis, which examines the courageous stance of four public figures—Anna Akhmatova, Albert Camus, Langston Hughes, and George Orwell—during the tumultuous period of 1914-45. In 2006 Thiemann represented the U.S. National Academies of Science on a lecture tour of universities and research centers in the Islamic Republic of Iran.

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