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1970-79

<<first  <<previous  1962-69 | 1970-79 | 1980-89 | 1990-99 | 2000-present  next>>  last>> Bishop John Cummins John Stephen Cummins, a native to Berkeley, was born in 1928 to Irish immigrants.  He began to study for the priesthood at St. Joseph’s College in Mountainview, California, graduating in 1949.  He attended seminary at St. Patrick’s Seminary in Menlo Park, California, graduating in 1953 with an MDiv. He was ordained in 1953 and began to serve at Mission Dolores Basilica in San Francisco.  His brother Bernard also became a priest and would later become superintendent of the schools...
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Students with Disabilities

This section has been designed to provide GTU MA and PhD students with disabilities with ready access to the information and forms you may need.  For further information, contact the Associate Dean of Students at 510/649-2440. Accommodations for Students With Disabilities Downloadable Forms: Request for Accommodations form Permission for Faculty Notification form Permission to Release Documentation form The GTU strives for consistent and equitable student access to educational opportunities.  In particular, it addresses a student’s ability to fulfill degree and certificate course and...
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Student Groups and Committees

GTU students range in age from mid-twenties to early seventies, and have families and/or obligations within their communities, denominations, and/or professional networks. Not all live in Berkeley, and many find it necessary to work to support their studies. Community is something that is built intentionally by committed individuals. Student community provides an avenue for sharing resources and experiences, learning about faculty, making a difference. Students are encouraged to organize support groups and the Dean's office is happy to help publicize their formation and meetings through the...
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McCoy Memorial Lecture on Religion, Ethics, and Public Life

About Charles S. McCoy Dr. McCoy (1923-2002) served for 33 years as the Robert Gordon Sproul Professor of Theological Ethics at Pacific School of Religion in Berkeley before he retired in 1992. In addition to a long and distinguished career as an internationally recognized theologian and ethicist, he was instrumental in the creation of the Graduate Theological Union and its Center for Ethics and Social Policy. A graduate of Yale University and an ordained United Methodist pastor, McCoy authored many books and articles and served as a scholar, activist, and teacher. Dr. McCoy believed that...
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Cross-Registration Instructions: DU, HNU & Mills

GTU students may take courses at Dominican University, Holy Names University (including the HNU affiliate, the Sophia Center) and at Mills College.   General Information Course Schedules Dominican University Course Catalog Holy Names University class schedule Sophia Center at Holy Names University also offers course that GTU students may take Mills College Schedule   Instruction begins at Dominican: (note this is different from the GTU) Fall 2019: August 26, 2019 Spring 2020: January 21, 2020   Instruction begins at Holy Names: (note this is...
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Center for Islamic Studies MA Program Celebrates First Year Anniversary

“Launching a new program is always challenging. But we engaged many exceptional partners and were blessed with outstanding students. Everyone brought something to the table; everyone wanted it to work. It was a winning proposition all around and none of this would have been possible without the generosity of the Henry Luce Foundation and the Social Science Research Council.” That’s what Center for Islamic Studies (CIS) Director Munir Jiwa says about the first year of the center’s M.A. program in Islamic Studies, which last year had five students, seven affiliated and adjunct faculty, and...
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A-twitter with American Buddhist Monk Heng Sure

You might need a list to describe Heng Sure. He’s a Buddhist monk, director of the Berkeley Buddhist Monastery, scholar, member of several interfaith organizations, GTU alumnus, teacher at Pacific School of Religion (PSR), musician, singer-songwriter of Buddhist folksongs, story teller, youth leader, and most recently, a tweeter on Twitter. Or you could drop the list and just say he is real. His name — given to him by his teacher Master Hsuan Hua when he became a monk — translated from Mandarin, means “constantly real.” “In Buddhist tradition, monks are given a name signifying what they have...
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Previewing Mel Gibson’s “Passion”: An essay by Michael Morris

Previewing Mel Gibson’s “Passion” by Michael Morris, O.P.Dominican School of Philosophy and TheologyProfessor of Religion and the Arts In September of 2002, I presented a paper with slides to the Magnificat Congress held at the Hilton Hotel in New York City. The subject of that paper was the impact of the visions of the 19th century mystic Anne Catherine Emmerich upon the arts, particularly in her graphic account of the Passion of Christ. It was a topic in which I had long been interested, both as an art historian and as a priest. Afterward, a knowledgeable and well-connected Jesuit came up...
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Theological Education: 1st World & 3rd World Creative Dialogue

Dwight N. HopkinsThe 2003 GTU Convocation Address Dwight Hopkins: Biographical Sketch Introduction The Pan-African Seminar of Religious Scholars on Religion and Poverty Presentation of Papers Seminar Structure Insights from the Pan-African Seminar Theological Education and Poverty The GTU and its “New Paradigm for Theological Education”   Dwight N. Hopkins is associate professor of theology at the Divinity School at University of Chicago. He has an M.Div., M.Phil., and Ph.D. from Union Theological Seminary in New York, and a second Ph.D. from University of Cape Town, South Africa. Dr. Hopkins...
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Media Coverage 2008-2011

Here are some recent media stories about the Graduate Theological Union, our member schools, and our faculty, students, and alumni/ae. For more information or a media packet, contact GTU Communications at 510/649-2422. Please note: links to external articles or audio files are current on date of posting. News outlets may remove or change URL according to individual publication policies.   June 2, 2011Salt Lake TribunePrestigious Berkeley school delves into Mormon StudiesSummary: Sheila Taylor (Ph.D. '11) may be GTU's first Mormon graduate; hopefully more will follow in her footsteps, after...
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Master's Program Advisor Handbook

On this webpage you, the faculy advisor, will find a number of resources that will help you in the advising master of arts students. The MA Program Handbook is your complete guide to the MA program. It can be found on this webpage.  MA Quick Guides: These guides are based on the Master of Arts Handbook and the various MA program checklists. These are meant to be an easy reference guide for the program, but you are encouraged to review the handbook for further details.  Common MA Quick Guide MA Biblical Languages Quick Guide  MA Buddhist Studies Quick Guide MA Buddhist Studies +...
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Newhall Fellowship

Newhall Fellowships are competitive awards for GTU Doctoral students in collaborative teaching or research with faculty mentors in the belief that such collaborative work would contribute to the professional development of the students and the mission of the GTU. Awards are given for fall, spring or both semesters, but the application process takes place only in the Fall. (If you apply for funding for two semesters, please not that the Awards Committee will fund projects for the one semester in which the course is to be taught or the research conducted.) Generally, awards are at least $3000...
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Applying to GTU

GTU offers diverse academic programs and non-degree courses of study to fit your educational goals.  From our PhD and MA programs to our certificates, we have a program to fit your academic project. 
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Paul W. Yinger Collection

The Rev. Paul W. Yinger was not a famous man, but he touched many lives. A Congregational minister who once served as chairman of the GTU board of trustees and later as GTU vice- president, Yinger had a distinguished career in ministry and public speaking. His many interests brought him into contact with a variety of ministries and people, including actor Lew Ayres. Yinger is prominently featured in the  Lesley L. Coffin's Lew Ayers: Hollywoods Conscientious Objector (2012). Throughout his life, Yinger meticulously kept track of correspondence, speeches, marriage records, church bulletins...
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2000-present

<<first  <<previous  1962-69 | 1970-79 | 1980-89 | 1990-99 | 2000-present John Weiser John has been involved with the GTU since 1998, and was Chairman of our Board of Trustees from 1999 to 2007.  Among his many efforts to ensure the GTU’s academic, programmatic, administrative, and financial success, he endowed a Presidential Scholarship, and helped launch the capital campaign with a major gift; helped draft the Common Agreement between member schools and the GTU; and spearheaded the committee to find GTU President James A. Donahue. He embodied the GTU’s interfaith mission by creating an...
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Special Collections Department

Information at a Glance   Holdings Rare books:  over 10,000 books and pamphletsArchival and manuscript material: over 1300 linear feet Hours Monday-Friday  Materials must be requested at least 30 minutes before closing time.Rare Books: 9 am to 5 pm (submit request at circulation desk)Archives:  8:30 am to 4 pm (submit request to archivist/special collections)   Archives and Manuscripts   Staff David Stiver,  Special Collections Librarian 510-649-2523 | dstiver@gtu.edu Reference assistance is available by email and U.S. mail, as well by phone and in person during office...
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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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Tuition and Fees

  Tuition and Fees, 2018-19 and 2019-20 (PDF)   The fees and charges listed below are for those students enrolled as students of the GTU, including the Common MA program. Students of one of the member schools should check with their registrar and/or business office for that school’s charges. Tuition and Fees (For tuition and fees, the academic year begins with the fall semester and ends with the summer session.)  Tuition 2018-19 2019-20 PhD tuition (per credit) $1385 $1425 PhD continuing fee (per semester) * $4775 $4775 MA tuition...
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Jenny Te Paa Named Alum of the Year In 2008 The Telegraph named Jenny Te Paa (Ph.D. ’01) one of the world’s fifty most influential Anglicans. This year, the first and only Maori woman with a Ph.D. in theology has been named GTU’s 2010 Alum of the Year. Te Paa spent five years studying in the GTU doctoral program while simultaneously serving as dean at the College of St. John the Evangelist in Auckland, New Zealand, 6500 miles away. Her goal there — creating bicultural theological education which celebrates a diverse and changing society — reflects her desire to honor the knowledge and...
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The Moan and the Shout: James Noel on African American Religious Experience

Background: “Continuity,” painted by James Noel Listen to James Noel describe the African American Religious Experience Listen to James Noel sing and recite poetry Take a black sermon, print it in a book, then read it, and you have no idea what it means because it has been abstracted from the living worship of the black church, says the Rev. Dr. James Noel, (Ph.D. ’99), Farlough Professor of African American Christianity at the San Francisco Theological Seminary. The sermon’s meaning, he says, is determined by the hymns sung, the testimonials, the prayers said before and after the sermon’s...