Graduate Theological Union

The Graduate Theological Union is the largest and most diverse partnership of seminaries and graduate schools in the United States, pursuing interreligious collaboration in teaching, research, ministry, and service.

Located in Berkeley, California, where the diversity of cultures and faith traditions reflects our own, study at the GTU is intellectually challenging and rich in resources. Students can pursue the Ph.D., Th.D., and M.A., plus two joint Ph.D. programs with the University of California, Berkeley.

As a union, we have the largest theological faculty in the United States, including renowned experts in Christian spirituality and liturgical studies as well as critical and creative scholars in 14 other areas.

The GTU offers a Center for Jewish Studies, a Center for Islamic Studies, a project called Partnerships in Asian Religions, Cultures, and Theologies, and a program in Women’s Studies in Religion.

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Spring Currents is here!

Currents presents the news, people, and progress of the Graduate Theological Union. Currents is distributed to alumni, faculty, students, staff, and friends of the GTU.

We Heard You!

We’ve made some changes to Currents based on what you, our readers, told us in a November 2007 survey.

Our new format features a more colorful 8-12 pages, printed in mid-April and mid-October. You asked for and we’re going to give you stories — about alumni, current students, faculty, cutting-edge scholarship, research, and new books written by GTU faculty and alumni. The mail and email versions will point you to even more information, accessible at www.gtu.edu.

Papal Mass to Include GTU Student’s Songs

Congratulations Ricky Manalo!

Choristers in the April 17 Papal Mass at Nationals Park in Washington, D.C. will sing two songs by GTU Ph.D. student Ricky Manalo. Manalo’s compositions, “Come, O Spirit of God” and “Pange Lingua,” will be featured in the prelude and communion.

Earlier this year, Manalo won an ecumenical hymn competition for the song, "That All May Be One." Choristers sang another of his songs, "Ang Katawan Ni Kristo" (Filipino for "The Body of Christ") at the closing Eucharist of the February 2008 Los Angeles Religious Education Conference.

Manalo is a Teagle-Wabash scholar in GTU’s Preparing Future Faculty Project, a year-long training funded by the Teagle Foundation and Wabash Center for Teaching and Learning in Religion and Theology. Besides developing students’ practical teaching skills, the project aims to learn how faculty can best mentor future teachers to develop their sense of vocation and help them bring meaning and value into liberal arts classrooms.

The April 17 Papal mass begins at 10:00 a.m. EST. This mass and full coverage of Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to America is available on EWTN via satellite and cable.