Joanne Rowling,known by her pen name J. K. Rowling,is a British author and philanthropist. She is the author of Harry Potter,a seven-volume fantasy novel series published from 1997 to 2007. The series has sold over 600 million copies,been translated into 84 languages,and spawned a global media franchise including films and video games. The Casual Vacancy (2012) was her first novel for adults. She writes Cormoran Strike,an ongoing crime fiction series,under the alias Robert Galbraith.
Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry is a fictional boarding school of magic for young wizards. It is the primary setting for the first six novels in the Harry Potter series by J. K. Rowling,and also serves as a major setting in the Wizarding World media franchise.
Harry James Potter is a fictional character in the Harry Potter series of novels by J. K. Rowling. The plot of the seven-book series chronicles seven years in the life of the orphan Harry,who,on his eleventh birthday,learns he is a wizard. He attends Hogwarts,a school of magic,where he receives guidance from the headmaster Albus Dumbledore and becomes friends with Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger. Harry learns that during his infancy,the Dark wizard Lord Voldemort murdered his parents but was unable to kill him as well. The plot of the series revolves around Harry's struggle to adapt to the wizarding world and defeat Voldemort.
John Granger is a speaker and writer whose principal focus is the intersection of literature,faith,and culture. He is most well known as the author of several books analysing J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter novels. He writes a weblog called Hogwarts Professor.
Candler School of Theology is one of seven graduate schools at Emory University,located in metropolitan Atlanta,Georgia. A university-based school of theology,Candler educates ministers,scholars of religion and other leaders. It is also one of 13 seminaries affiliated with the United Methodist Church.
Harry Potter is a series of seven fantasy novels written by British author J. K. Rowling. The novels chronicle the lives of a young wizard,Harry Potter,and his friends,Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley,all of whom are students at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The main story arc concerns Harry's conflict with Lord Voldemort,a dark wizard who intends to become immortal,overthrow the wizard governing body known as the Ministry of Magic,and subjugate all wizards and Muggles.
Yale Divinity School (YDS) is one of the twelve graduate and professional schools of Yale University in New Haven,Connecticut.
John Neil Alexander is a bishop and the Custodian of the Standard Book of Common Prayer in The Episcopal Church. He is Professor of Liturgy,Emeritus,and Quintard Professor of Theology,Emeritus,in the School of Theology of the University of the South,Sewanee,Tennessee. He served as dean of the School of Theology at the University of the South from 2012 to 2020,and is Dean Emeritus. From 2001 to 2012,he was the 9th Bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Atlanta.
Berkeley Divinity School at Yale,founded in 1854,is a seminary of The Episcopal Church in New Haven,Connecticut. Along with Andover Newton Theological School and the Yale Institute of Sacred Music,Berkeley is one of the three "Partners on the Quad," which are part of Yale Divinity School at Yale University. Thus,Berkeley operates as a denominational seminary within an ecumenical divinity school. Berkeley has historically represented a Broad church orientation among Anglican seminaries in the country,and was the fourth independent seminary to be founded,after General Theological Seminary (1817),Virginia Theological Seminary (1823),and Nashotah House (1842). Berkeley's institutional antecedents began at Trinity College,Hartford in 1849. The institution was formally chartered in Middletown,Connecticut in 1854,moved to New Haven in 1928,and amalgamated with Yale in 1971.
Religious debates over the Harry Potter series of books by J. K. Rowling are based on claims that the novels contain occult or Satanic subtexts. A number of Protestant,Catholic,and Eastern Orthodox Christians have argued against the series,as have some Muslims. Supporters of the series have said that the magic in Harry Potter bears little resemblance to occultism,being more in the vein of fairy tales such as Cinderella and Snow White,or to the works of C. S. Lewis and J. R. R. Tolkien,both of whom are known for writing fantasy novels with Christian subtexts. Far from promoting a particular religion,some argue,the Harry Potter novels go out of their way to avoid discussing religion at all. However,the author of the series,J. K. Rowling,describes herself as a Christian,and many have noted the Christian references which she includes in the final novel Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows.
Rubeus Hagrid is a fictional character in the Harry Potter series of novels by J. K. Rowling. He was introduced in Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (2001) as a half-giant who is the gamekeeper and groundskeeper at the wizarding school Hogwarts. He is a member of the Order of the Phoenix and eventually becomes the Care of Magical Creatures professor. Hagrid is portrayed by Robbie Coltrane in all eight Harry Potter films.
Ginevra Molly "Ginny" Weasley is a fictional character in the Harry Potter series of novels by J.K. Rowling. She is introduced in the first novel,Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone,as the youngest child and only daughter of Arthur and Molly Weasley. She becomes romantically involved with Harry Potter and eventually marries him. Ginny is portrayed by Bonnie Wright in all eight Harry Potter films.
Paul David Loup Avis is an English Anglican priest,theologian,and ecumenist. He was General Secretary of the Church of England's Council for Christian Unity from 1998 to 2011,theological consultant to the Anglican Communion Office,London,from 2011 to 2012,and Canon Theologian of Exeter Cathedral from 2008 to 2013. He was honorary professor in the Department of Theology and Religion at Durham University 2017–2021 and is currently Honorary Professor in the School of Divinity,University of Edinburgh (2022-). At the University of Exeter he was visiting professor of theology from 2009 to 2017 and subsequently honorary research fellow until 2021. He is the editor of the series Anglican-Episcopal Theology and History,also published by Brill. Avis was also a chaplain to Queen Elizabeth II,2008–2017.
Pamela Cooper-White is the Christiane Brooks Johnson Professor Emerita and Dean Emerita of Psychology and Religion at Union Theological Seminary in New York.
Jeffery Tribble is an ordained elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church and a professor of ministry with research interests in Practical Theology,Congregational Studies and Leadership,Ethnography,Evangelism and Church Planting,Black Church Studies,and Urban Church Ministry. Academics and professionals in these fields consider him a renowned thought leader. Tribble's experience in pastoral ministry allows for his work to bridge the gap between academic research and practical church leadership.
Kathy L Dawson is a certified Christian educator and ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Her work is focused primarily on the development of educational resources and the accessibility of resources for all educators. In 2015,she was recognized as the Educator of the Year by the Association of Presbyterian Church Educators. She is currently the Benton Family Associate Professor of Christian Education at Columbia Theological Seminary.
Professor Minerva McGonagall is a fictional character in the Harry Potter series of novels by J. K. Rowling. She is a professor at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry,where she is also the head of Gryffindor House and the deputy headmistress under Albus Dumbledore. McGonagall is portrayed by Maggie Smith in the Harry Potter films and by Fiona Glascott in Fantastic Beasts:The Crimes of Grindelwald and Fantastic Beasts:The Secrets of Dumbledore.
Dolores Jane Umbridge is a fictional character from the Harry Potter series created by J.K. Rowling. Umbridge is the secondary antagonist of the fifth novel,Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, where she has been stationed at Hogwarts by the Ministry of Magic to take power away from Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore,who have both been informing the Wizarding World of Lord Voldemort's return.
Maryanne P. Confoy RSC is an Australian religious Sister of Charity who has also been a teacher and scholar,working primarily in the areas of ministry and spirituality.
