eBook: S. Mark Heim Endowed Scholarship Announcement

Background

At the end of the 2025-2026 academic year, Professor S. Mark Heim, the Samuel Abbot Professor of Christian Theology at Andover Newton Seminary at Yale Divinity School, (ANS) will retire from full-time faculty work. Although he will continue in the immediate future to teach one course, this change is momentous in that Professor Heim is currently the longest-serving member of the Andover Newton at YDS faculty and has been an anchoring force as Andover Newton has gone through radical change.

In both celebration and great appreciation of his remarkable career at our beloved institution,  we aim to honor Professor Heim by establishing the S. Mark Heim Endowed Scholarship. In accordance with Yale’s non-discrimination policies, the endowed scholarship fund will support one or more deserving seminary students at Andover Newton. In order to fully endow the S. Mark Heim Scholarship, ANS seeks to raise a minimum of $50,000.

All gifts made to help endow the scholarship are fully tax deductible and sincerely appreciated. Unless instructed otherwise by the donor, ANS will keep Mark and Melissa Heim informed on contributions towards the fund. Please note that for all leadership gifts of $10,000 or more, donors will receive regular annual reports on the scholarship and its recipients.

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About S. Mark Heim

Heim is a graduate of Amherst College, Andover Newton Theological School (1976) and the Boston College – Andover Newton Theological School joint doctoral program in systematic theology (1982). Prof. Heim has written extensively on issues of religious pluralism, atonement, and Christian ecumenism. His books include Salvations: Truth and Difference in Theology; The Depth of the Riches: A Trinitarian Theology of Religious Ends (Theological Booksellers Theologos award for best academic book 2001); Saved from Sacrifice: A Theology of the Cross; Crucified Wisdom: Christ and the Bodhisattva in Theological Reflection (winner of Frederick Streng award in Buddhist-Christian studies 2019) Monotheism and Forgiveness, and, most recently, Theology and Medicine in Conversation: How the Healing Happens (with Benjamin Doolittle). Heim has also edited several volumes, including Faith to Creed: Ecumenical Perspectives on the Affirmation of the Apostolic Faith in the Fourth Century and Grounds for Understanding: Ecumenical Resources for Responses to Religious Pluralism. 

Heim received a Henry Luce III Fellowship in Theology (2009-2010) and a Pew Evangelical Scholars’ Research Fellowship (1997-98). He is a member of the American Theological Society. He served as co-chair of the comparative theology group in the American Academy of Religion.  His teaching in science and religion received several national awards, including a Templeton Foundation award in 1998 for one of the twelve outstanding courses in this area. He was from 2014-2018 the primary investigator on a grant from the American Academy for the Advancement of Science devoted to integrating science into the theological curriculum.

An ordained American Baptist minister from Vermont, Heim served First Baptist Church in Franklin, NH in the years between his MDiv and doctoral studies. Heim has represented his denomination on the Faith and Order Commissions of the National Council and World Council of Churches. He has served on numerous ecumenical commissions and study groups, including the Christian – Muslim relations committee of the National Council of Churches. His teaching and research interests include comparative theology, theologies of religious pluralism, science and theology, Christology and atonement, and ecumenical ecclesiology.  

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