Church Divinity School of the Pacific
Associate Professor of Theology

At GTU since 2001

Ph.D. Theological and Religious Studies, Drew University, 2001
Double M.A. equiv. Eberhard Karls Universität, Tübingen, 1997

Phone: 510/204-0724
E-mail: mgrau@cdsp.edu

Current Research and Teaching Interests

• Constructive Theological Approaches to Christian Doctrine in conversation with Post-structuralist, Feminist and Postcolonial thought
• Soteriology and Economy; God and Mammon in a Consumerist Age
• "The Empire Theologizes Back": Western Theology in conversation with former missionary Churches’ theologies (esp. Anglican Communion)
• Cultural Theories, Gender Theories, and Doctrinal Reconstruction
• Ecological Theology; Process Theology
• Feminist and post-colonial Reconstructions of Redemption and Atonement

Selected Publications

• Of Divine Economy: Refinancing Redemption. T&T Clark International/Continuum, 2004.
• Interpreting Postmodernity: Responses to Radical Orthodoxy . Edited by Marion Grau and Rosemary Radford Ruether. T&T Clark International/Continuum, 2006.
• "Divine Commerce- A Post-Colonial Christology for Times of Neo-Colonial Empire," in: Postcolonial Theologies: Divinity and Empire, Catherine Keller, Michael Nausner, and Mayra Rivera, eds. Chalice Press, 2004.
• "Business as Un-Usual: Reconstructing Divine Economy," in: Strike Terror No More: Theology, Ethics, and the New War, Jon Berquist, ed. St. Louis: Chalice Press, 2002. 21-29.
• "Redeeming the Body" in Late Western Capitalism—Pondering Salvation and Artificial Intelligence,” Journal of Women and Religion. Vol. 20. 144-156.
• "Erasing Economy: Derrida and the Construction of Divine Economies," Fall 2002 in: Crosscurrents, Vol. 52, No. 3. 360-370.