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Panel Discussion: Spiritual Ecology

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Wednesday, October 5th 2016, 5:00pm
Join us for a panel discussion on "Spiritual Ecology" featuring Dr. Cynthia Moe Lobeda (Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary), Dr. Riess Potterveld (GTU), Dr. Rita Sherma (Center for Dharma Studies), and Dr. Devin Zuber (Center for Swedenborgian Studies). Where: CARe's Doug Adams Gallery, 2465 LeConte Avenue, Berkeley
Center for the Arts & Religion (CARe)The Mira and Ajay Shingal Center for Dharma Studies (CDS) Center for Swedenborgian Studies (CSS)Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary of California Lutheran University (PLTS-CLU)
CARe | Center for the Arts & ReligionCDS | The Mira and Ajay Shingal Center for Dharma StudiesCSS | Center for Swedenborgian StudiesPLTS | Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary
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New Digital Microform Scanner Graces First Floor of Library

The next time you are in the library, take a look at the microform (microfiche and microfilm) area on the first floor. Most of the previous readers/printers have been sent to electronic recycling. The newer remaining reader/printer that was connected to a computer has been moved and can continue to be used to view and print fiche and film. The most exciting addition is our new ST ViewScan digital microform scanner, which now sits next to the GRACE terminal. The all-digital ViewScan incorporates the newest imaging technology. No longer are you required to print the images as they appear on the...
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GTU Celebrates Publication on Asian American Cultures

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Thursday, October 1st 2015, 6:30pm
GTU faculty members and other contributors will celebrate on the publication of their encyclopedia Asian American Religious Cultures on Thursday, October 1. The event will be held in the Dinner Boardroom in the Flora Lamson Hewlett Library beginning at 6:30.    Six years in the making, the project was spearheaded by Fumitaka Matsuoka (retired), Edmond Yee (retired), Ronald Y Nakasone, and graduate Jonathan Lee. Matsuoka, is Robert Gordon Sproul Professor of Theology Emeritus and the former Executive Director of the Institute for Leadership Development and the Study of Pacific and Asian...
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GTU at 50

From the President June 2012 Dear Friends, In September of 1962, visionaries from differing Christian traditions came together to form the Graduate Theological Union in order that they might accomplish more together than separately. When I did my doctoral work in ethics at the GTU in the early ’80s, and in my teaching years after that, we leaned on the perspectives of thinkers who had gone before.  Certainly ethicists have always asked the normative questions about what is right and good. That hasn’t changed. But our scholarly analysis in the Christian tradition then was primarily drawn...
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1980-89

<<first  <<previous  1962-69 | 1970-79 | 1980-89 | 1990-99 | 2000-present  next>>  last>> Flora Lamson Hewlett and the Hewlett Family The Library serves as the academic core and the physical center of the shared effort that comprises the GTU. The building remains an architectural gem, serving all students of the consortium and members of wider community. This critical building would not have been possible without the lead gift from the Hewlett Family Foundation in honor of Flora Lamson Hewlett. Flora Lamson Hewlett was born in 1914.  She graduated from UC Berkeley in 1935 with a degree in...
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1962-69

1962-69 | 1970-79 | 1980-89 | 1990-99 | 2000-present  next>>  last>> John Dillenberger (Dean ‘63-‘69, President ‘67-‘71) John Dillenberger was integral to the GTU’s creation. Born in 1918, he was a Dean of the Faculty at San Francisco Theological Seminary. He served as the GTU’s dean from 1964 to 1969 and as its first president from 1967 to 1972.  He would later serve again as Acting President from 1999-2000. He also served the GTU as Acting Library Director.  At the GTU, he was a professor of historical theology, particularly interested in the history of science.  Much of his academic...
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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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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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1990-99

<<first  <<previous  1962-69 | 1970-79 | 1980-89 | 1990-99 | 2000-present  next>>  last>> Glenn R. Bucher (President ’92-’99) Glenn Bucher was President of the Graduate Theological Union from 1992 to 1999. He received a Bachelor of Arts in economics and philosophy from Elizabethtown College, the M.Div. from Union Theological Seminary and the Ph.D. in the sociology of religion from Boston University.  From 1999-2005 he was Executive Director of The Boyer Center at Messiah College. Previously, Dean of Faculty at The College of Wooster and Professor of Religious Studies at Howard University (...
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Lifetime Achievement

Below are a select group of people, one from each of our members, who have embodied the values and enhanced the community of the Graduate Theological Union during its first 50 years. For their legacy of service, we honor them with a Lifetime Achievement Award. Sharon-Gay Smith Graduate Theological Union, Consortial Registrar (1971-2008) Sharon-Gay Smith was born in February 1942.  She spent her youth travelling around the world with her family, courtesy of the US Army and Air Force.  She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in anthropology and political...
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50th Anniversary Honorees

Many, many people were instrumental to the success of the GTU during its first 50 years. The GTU created this space in 2012 to honor the contributions of the most seminal figures of the GTU's first half-decade. You can also view key figures in GTU history by decade:  1962-69 | 1970-79 | 1980-89 | 1990-99 | 2000-2012  In addition, for our 50th anniversary in 2012, each member school choose one person who embodies the spirit of the GTU to be recognized for a lifetime of contributions in service of the GTU.   John Dillenberger (Dean ‘63-‘69, President ‘67-‘71) John Dillenberger was...
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