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Online Exhibit Launched: The Spirit of the Tarot: The Search for God's Picturebook Today, the library launches an online exhibition,  The Spirit of the Tarot: The Search for God’s Picturebook. The launch corresponds with today's Reading of the Sacred Text by Rev. Dr. Justin Sabia-Tanis on  "Divining Freedom: Queer Reconceptions of the Tarot Deck." The exhibition explores the religious and spiritual aspects of the Tarot over the past 500 years.  From a game, the cards became a way to perceive the future and a tool for meditation and personal development. A reading of the cards can suggest...
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Flora Lamson Hewlett Library News

Flora Lamson Hewlett Library News From the Spring 2019 edition of Skylight See PDF of this article  In the past twelve months, the GTU library has renovated several new academics spaces, including multiple classroom and conversation spaces and a new digital learning lab. We’re pleased to announce that we have also created for the GTU community on the library’s main floor, a new Prayer and Meditation Space. The space is designed to feel comfortable for students, faculty, and staff from any of the diverse religious traditions at the GTU. “As members of our community make use of the space, we...
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John Templeton Foundation Awards GTU’s Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences Nearly Half-Million Dollar Grant to Advance Critical Research on “Virtuous Artificial Intelligence”

BERKELEY, CA – July 18, 2022 – The Graduate Theological Union (GTU) is pleased to announce that the John Templeton Foundation (JTF) has awarded the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS) a $445,000, three-year grant beginning in July 2022 to take forward critical research on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and its ethical implications. The project, titled “Virtuous AI? Artificial Intelligence, Cultural Evolution, and Virtue,” seeks to explore several core questions: How and to what extent will AI influence the evolution of human culture and virtue? Can AI assist humans in the...
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Art @ the GTU

From the Fall 2018 issue of Skylight View PDF article here Gestures to the Divine: Works by Hagit Cohen  Doug Adams Gallery, Center for the Arts & Religion  2465 LeConte Avenue, Berkeley  This fall, nature is on display at the Center for the Arts & Religion’s Doug Adams Gallery. In “Gestures to the Divine,” artist Hagit Cohen encourages us to focus on the world around us, presenting photographs that stretch the imagination. Images of seed pods, large in size but minimalist in aesthetic, draw us in with the detail of their textures and the mystery of their shadows. An altar, suspended in...
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Art @ the GTU

Art @ the GTU From the Spring 2019 edition of Skylight See PDF of this article Sacred Sounds and Left Coast Chamber Ensemble in Residence Doug Adams Gallery, Center for the Arts & Religion 2465 LeConte Avenue Through May 24 (T-Th, 10am-3pm) This semester, CARe’s Doug Adams Gallery is hosting a musical residency featuring the Left Coast Chamber Ensemble to accompany its “Sacred Sounds” exhibition. Throughout the spring, the Left Coast will present concerts, workshops, open rehearsals, and special events. There’s something for everyone—initial events have included an opening reception ...
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Insight: GTU Highlights for August 2016

The August 2016 edition of the GTU’s Insight email newsletter is out, featuring short stories about… The Sylvia Ludins Art Exhibition at the GTU Library A Remembering of DSPT’s Father Michael Morris A Cover Feature about the GTU in In Trust Magazine BJRT’s Special Issue honoring Arthur Holder and Judith Berling Naomi Seidman’s New Book, The Marriage Plot Read the August 2016 Insight here. Each month, Insight draws attention to top news from the GTU and its member schools, academic centers, and affiliates. Use the form to the right to have each monthly edition emailed directly...
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GTU Student Chosen for FASPE Ethics Fellowship

New York, NY — Sakinah Alhabshi, a student of Graduate Theological Union, is one of thirteen seminary students chosen for the 2022 seminary program of the Fellowships at Auschwitz for the Study of Professional Ethics (FASPE). Now in its twelfth year of operation, FASPE provides a unique historical lens to engage graduate students in professional schools as well as early-stage practitioners in six fields (business, journalism, law, design & technology, medicine, and seminary) in an intensive course of study focused on contemporary ethical issues in their professions. The FASPE seminary...
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GTU Welcomes Institute of Buddhist Studies as New Member School

BERKELEY, CA – August 5, 2021 – The Graduate Theological Union (GTU) and Institute of Buddhist Studies (IBS) are pleased to announce the deepening connection between their scholarly communities as IBS becomes the GTU consortium’s ninth member school, following thirty-six years of collaboration as a GTU affiliate. IBS is the first non-Christian institution to be represented among the GTU’s member schools, further living out the GTU’s commitment to fostering interreligious life, learning, and leadership. In addition to IBS and its other member schools, the GTU is comprised of five academic...
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New! Qu'ranic Studies Online added to GTU Library's Electronic Resources

The Graduate Theological Union's Flora Lamson Hewlett Library is subscribing to a new electronic resource, the Qur'anic Studies Online collection hosted by Brill.  Qur'anic Studies Online includes:  Encyclopaedia of the Qur’ān Online is an encyclopaedic dictionary of qur’ānic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qur’ānic studies.  Early Western Korans Online is a collection of 62 korans printed in Arabic type in several Western European cities between 1537 and 1857.  Qurʾān...
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New Pope, New Contexts: Recommended Reading from the GTU Library

Pope Leo XIV is the first American and the first Augustinian to lead the Roman Catholic Church. While social media has made much of his potential pizza and baseball opinions, this next Leo is already setting the foundation for continuing the work of Pope Francis, but also the previous Leo, referencing the Rerum Novarum to explain his choice of papal name. In any case, the contexts surrounding the new pope are fascinating. The GTU library has many titles that might both help you get to know the new pope and spark a new research interest. Books at the GTU Library Augustine and Social Justice...
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GTU Board Endorses New Initiatives for Expansion, Affirms Commitment to Robust Degree Programs and Research Library

October 30, 2014, Berkeley, CA — At its meeting on October 29, 2014, the Board of Trustees of the Graduate Theological Union reviewed a series of recommendations from a consulting firm regarding the school’s current and future programming. The board has announced several key decisions that will strengthen the GTU’s status as a premier center for the study of the world’s major religious traditions. The Board strongly endorsed a plan presented by President Riess Potterveld that includes eight different initiatives to expand the academic centers and programs of the GTU. These initiatives...
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Dr. Deidre N. Green Named Assistant Professor of Latter-day Saints/Mormon Studies at the GTU

BERKELEY, CA – April 27, 2022 – The Graduate Theological Union is pleased to announce that Dr. Deidre N. Green has been named Assistant Professor of Latter-day Saints/Mormon Studies at the GTU. Dr. Green will join the faculty on July 1, 2022, and she will begin offering courses in the Fall 2022 semester. A global scholar of religion whose work incorporates the philosophy of religion, feminist theology, and activism, Dr. Green brings a fresh perspective to the interpretation of scripture and other theological sources, such as in her forthcoming volume, Latter-day Saint Perspectives on...
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Technical Services and Collection Development

The Department as a whole is committed to the on-going development and maintenance of the various instructional and research collections (Exegesis, History, Liturgy, Practical Theology, Periodicals, Reference, etc.) that support the teaching, learning, and research activities associated with the disciplines of religion and theology undertaken in the academic and professional programs offered at the Graduate Theological Union. To fulfill our mission, the Department strives to: Select, locate, and obtain quality Library materials and services in support of the academic and professional aims...
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Eat, Dance, and Pray with People

The second issue of Art in the Archives, an occasional newsletter about GTU's special collections, is now available online. Jibreel Delgada Trabal, GTU PhD student, unravels the influence of Sufism in America through Murshid Samuel L. Lewis in  “Eat, Dance, and Pray with People: Peace Plans, Pilgrimages and Poster Art in the GTU’s Sufism Collection.” Jibreel draws from two New Religious movement collections and includes objects from the Sacred World Art Collection. Within the archives are materials about  Sufism in 20th century America, especially the activities of the American Mystic...
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Robert McAfee Brown: Glimpses of What Life is Meant to Be

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Robert McAfee Brown: Glimpses of What Life is Meant to Be will be on display in the library from October 1, 2010 to January 15, 2011.

Robert McAfee Brown was a Christian theologian, ethicist, teacher, author, preacher, and advocate for peace and justice in social, economic, and gender issues. He taught theology and religious studies at Macalister College (St. Paul),  Union Theological Seminary (NY), Stanford University, and  Pacific School of Religion (PSR).

He emerged in the early sixties as one of  America's foremost theologians while also becoming an influential activist for peace and...

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The Center for Women and Religion Collection

        From left, CWR Directors, Mary Cross and Barbara Waugh, Diane Darling, unidentified, Jean Richardson, Kathleen Smith, Diann Neu, and Joanne Eakin. Front, Christine Lesley and Anne Stinely. 1979-80.   Center for Women and Religion at the GTU was the earliest established center for women in theological education. It was founded in 1970 as the Office of Women's Affairs by Bay Area women in religion, including some GTU women, who recognized "that seminary women at the GTU schools needed a channel, an advocate, an office through which to...
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Transcending Word and Deed: Religious Art

Though much of our religious traditions are recorded and communicated through text or action, art has been a long-standing avenue for expression and instruction of things concerning the soul. The Flora Lamson Hewlett Library is hosting a special exhibit in honor of the 50th Anniversary of the GTU. Imaging Religion, which opens October 1 and runs through January 31, 2013, will feature visual and textual expressions characterizing beliefs from various religious traditions. Included in the display are Orthodox icons; Catholic paintings, prints, and vestments; Protestant prints; Islamic and...
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Sacred World Art Collection Finds New Home

From the Fall 2018 issue of Skylight View PDF article here After many months of careful cataloging, the GTU Collection of Sacred World Art is now accessible to the GTU community!  Visitors to the library this fall may have noticed two new storage cabinets on the main floor. Over the last few months, nearly half of the more than three hundred items in the GTU Collection of Sacred World Art have been brought from temporary storage and relocated to a permanent home in these state-of-the-art archival storage units. Constructed by Delta Designs, these cabinets are used by museums nationally and...
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Clay-Edward Dixon Appointed Director of Library Services

The Graduate Theological Union is pleased to announce that Clay-Edward Dixon has been appointed Director of Library Services of the GTU’s Flora Lamson Hewlett Library. Dixon has served as the library’s interim director since the March 2016 retirement of Robert Benedetto, and has been the library’s head of collection development since 2000. Dixon is a seasoned librarian with more than 26 years of professional experience in technical and public services at a variety of public and private institutions. Before coming to the GTU, he served at the Ryan Memorial Library of St. Charles Borromeo...
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New Religious Movements

Hare Krishna Poster, Noffke Collection Click here for larger image   Chogyam Trungpa, Meaning of Awareness, Noffke Collection Click here for larger image   Meeting of the Ways,  Noffke Collection Click here for larger image   Bubba Free John, Noffke Collection Click here for larger image   Spiritual Counterfeits Project, Noffke Collection Click here for larger image...
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