Liston Pope

Liston Corlando Pope (6 September 1909 — 15 April 1974) was an American clergyman, author, theological educator, and dean of Yale University Divinity School from 1949 to 1962.

Robie Pope was a banker, a city councilman andmayor of Thomasville, and had served in the North Carolina House of Representatives.

Liston Pope considered his father to be a "banker with a conscience" and an inspiration in his study of social problems from the Christian point of view.

His thesis, a study of the interrelationship of religion and economics was published in 1940 under the title Millhands and Preachers, won the John Addison Porter Prize, and was used as a text in social ethics courses in many universities.

He became the Gilbert L. Stark Professor of Social Ethics in 1947, and was made dean of the Yale Divinity School in 1949, a position he served in until 1962.