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Course Reserves

Instructors can now choose to have print or electronic course reserves. If we do not yet own the item, we can purchase it, use the suggest a purchase form and indicate that you'd like it for a class.  Items owned by the library:  Electronic Reserves: If the item is available through the library already as an ebook or online journal article, you can skip this process and just link to the item in your Moodle Course Space. For items that are on the library shelves, the library staff can scan print materials to PDF for instructors to upload into their Moodle Course Space. Please use this form...
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Signature Lectures (audio)

  Can Religion Meet the Challenge of Human Evolution? Robert Bellah, Elliot Professor of Sociology Emeritus, UC Berkeley Twentieth Annual Surjit Singh Lecture in Comparative Religious Thought and Culture, February 28, 2012Listen to the lectureListen to the Q&A Transcript What Does Scholarship Have to Do with Activism? Reflections on 15 Years in the Trenches Mary Ann Tolbert (PSR), George H. Atkinson Professor of Biblical StudiesJudith Berling (GTU)—respondentDistinguished Faculty Lecture, November 8, 2011Listen to the lecture The Modern-Day Abolitionist Movement: What Smart Activists are...
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Distinguished Faculty Lectures

Each November, the GTU faculty honors a distinguished professor who embodies the scholarly standards, teaching excellence, and commitment to ecumenism and interreligious dialogue that define the GTU. Nominations are considered annually by the Council of Deans, who then select the year’s Distinguished Faculty Lecturer.
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Library History

Before the GTU and its library came into existence, the seminaries of the Bay Area and of California engaged in a number of cooperative library programs. The earliest cooperation began around the turn of the century as denominations located their seminaries in Berkeley to be close to the University of California, and its educational and library resources. The Western Theological Library Association was begun in 1954 by J. Stillson Judah, Librarian of the Pacific School of Religion. Cooperative projects included union catalogs and periodical lists. The GTU was incorporated in 1962. In 1963,...
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Multimedia

Every year, the GTU hosts more than one hundred public events including lectures, conferences, presentations, panel discussions, and artistic performances. The videos below offer just a sampling of recent events. To see more, subscribe to the GTU's YouTube channel--or review our events calendar and join us in person!   Visit Moodle for audio and video related to specific courses.
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The GTU Collection of Sacred World Art

The GTU is grateful to Lanier Graham, a professional curator, professor of museum studies and world religions, and president of the Institute for Aesthetic Development, for his generous gift of the sacred that makes up the GTU Collection of Sacred World Art. Comprised of more than 300 objects that relate in some way to the sacred, this collection is currently undergoing study and curation so it can be displayed and used as an educational resource for GTU faculty, students, and others. Sacred art can be defined as artwork that uses religious imagery, symbols, or motifs to point to the divine...
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Borsch-Rast Book Prize and Lectureship

The Borsch-Rast Book Prize and Lectureship of the Graduate Theological Union has as its purpose the encouragement of the writing and publication of theological scholarship by GTU graduates and current faculty. The endowment for the Borsch-Rast Book Prize and Lectureship comes from the sale of Trinity Press International, a venture dedicated to the publication of scholarly and often interdisciplinary theological studies. The prize and lectureship honor the joint example and collaboration of Frederick Houk Borsch (1935-2017) and Harold W. Rast (1933-2004). Hal Rast, after years as a senior...
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Featured Collections

  Pacific Coast Theological Society The Pacific Coast Theological Society (then Group) was established by John C. Bennett  (1902-1995) and supported by the Hazen Foundation in 1939. Bennett, then Professor of Christian Theology at Pacific School of Religion,  was inspired by a similar organization on the East coast ("the younger theologians"). more Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Queer Archival Collections Over the past 30 years, Special Collections and Archives developed significant resources on the religious activities of LGBTQ clergy and organizations.Our...
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Library Staff Directory

Please note: due to the building alterations many staff members are working hybrid schedules and are not in the building every day. Please email us for a faster response rather than calling us at the numbers below. For general questions chat a librarian on weekdays or email us at library@gtu.edu.
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Other Lectures

August 23, 2010 Ethics and Religious Institutions of Higher Education: Beginning the Journey James A. Donahue, Ph.D. President and Professor of Ethics Graduate Theological Union Inaugural Convocation of Zaytuna College, Berkeley, CA May 11, 2006 Taking a Long ... a Very Long View Louis Weil Hodges-Haynes Professor of Liturgics Church Divinity School of the Pacific GTU 2006 commencement address by Louis Weil, GTU core doctoral faculty member and Hodges-Haynes Professor of Liturgics at Church Divinity School of the Pacific...
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Margaret Palmer Taylor Collection of Sacred Dance

Margaret Palmer (1908-2004) was a pioneer in sacred dance in America. Born in Oakland, California, she was a daughter of a Congregational minister. The family moved to Honolulu in 1917, where she learned creative dance in school. She continued to study dance, and earned her B.A. at Oberlin College in 1930, later attending Chicago Theological Seminary, 1931-32. Her first husband, Chester B. Fisk, was a minister, and Margaret began to incorporate sacred dance in the church worship services. She continued to expand her dancing, organizing rhythmic choirs and teaching in workshops, festivals,...
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Faculty Publications by Name

  Purchase books from our a-store and help support the GTU. Below is a list of faculty publications, arranged alphabetically by last name. Jerome Baggett (GTU/JST), The Varieties of Nonreligious Experience: Atheism in American Culture (NYU Press, 2019). Kathryn Barush (GTU/JST), Imaging Pilgrimage: Art as Embodied Experience (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020); Art and the Sacred Journey in Britain, 1790-1850 (Routledge, 2016). Purushottama Bilimoria (GTU/CDS), History of Indian Philosophy (Routledge History of World Philosophies, 2018); Emotions in Indian Thought-Systems (Routledge India, 2015);...
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Surjit Singh Lecture in Comparative Religious Thought and Culture

On April 5, 2021, Dr. Karen Barkey of University of California, Berkeley presented the GTU's Annual Surjit Singh Lecture in Comparative Religious Thought. Dr. Barkey's lecture is titled, "Navigating Topographies of Belonging and Difference: Contemporary Shared Sacred Sites in the Mediterranean." Watch the video below.
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Pacific Coast Theological Society, 1939 - present

The Pacific Coast Theological Society (then Group) was established by John C. Bennett  (1902-1995) and supported by the Hazen Foundation in 1939. Bennett, then Professor of Christian Theology at Pacific School of Religion,  was inspired by a similar organization on the East coast ("the younger theologians"). Since then,  the society continues to meet twice a year, in the Spring and Fall for two days (Friday and Saturday) to discuss critical theological and societal issues. Members and speakers have always been among the best regarded theologians on the West coast. The organization is based...
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Frankl Bibliography

Bibliography of Works by and about  Viktor Frankl and Logotherapy in the GTU Archives (Organized by author)   Chapters in Books Arasteh, A. Reza|Viktor Frankl|Final Integration in the Adult Personality, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1965 Arnold, Magda B., and John A. Gasson|Logotherapy and Existential Analysis|The Human Person, Ronald Press, 1954 Ascher, L. Michael|Paradoxical Intention|Handbook of Behavioral Intentions, Edna B. Foa and Alan Golstein, editors, New York: John Wiley, 1980 Ascher, L. Michael, and C. Alex Pollard|Paradoxical Intention|The Therapeutic Efficacy of the Major...
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2016 GTU Graduates

On May 12, fifty-seven graduates were honored at the GTU's 2016 Commencement Ceremony at Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary's Chapel of the Cross in Berkeley, California. Graduates are listed below by degree and include their thesis title, area of study or school of affiliation, committee members, and thesis abstract; language specialization is noted for MABL graduates in lieu of thesis information.   Master of Arts Ineda P. Adesanya The Necessity of Spiritual Care for American Protestant Clergy: Living and Serving via the Fruits of God’s Grace San Francisco Theological Seminary R...
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