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Milestones

Celebrating Forty Years of Theological Scholarship Over the past four decades, the GTU has become renowned as the "theological consortium that really works." Along with the doctoral and common M.A. programs, the GTU's nine member schools and ten affiliated centers share faculty, registration, courses, a bookstore, and—the jewel in the crown—the most comprehensive theological library in the U.S. We are all aware that the nature of religious leadership has changed in light of the events of September 11, 2001. Now more than ever, the core mission of the GTU—to provide theological education for...
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Milestones

Celebrating Forty Years of Theological Scholarship Over the past four decades, the GTU has become renowned as the "theological consortium that really works." Along with the doctoral and common M.A. programs, the GTU's nine member schools and ten affiliated centers share faculty, registration, courses, a bookstore, and—the jewel in the crown—the most comprehensive theological library in the U.S. We are all aware that the nature of religious leadership has changed in light of the events of September 11, 2001. Now more than ever, the core mission of the GTU—to provide theological education for...
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Fall 2002

"The Teacher-Scholar: Pedagogy as Social Justice"Adapted from Michelle Gonzalez's address at the GTU Commencement in May 2002. Michelle is the first Latina Ph.D. in systematic and philosophical theology, and is now assistant professor at Loyola Marymount University. "As an academic, and as a lay woman in the Roman Catholic Church, I have struggled to find an avenue for the centrality of Christian action proclaimed by liberation theologians in my own life and work. In the past few months, I have come to see my teaching as an expression of Christian justice.. . . In the process of teaching my...
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Around the GTU: News from GTU Schools and Centers

New President at SFTS The SFTS Board of Trustees recently announced the appointment of the Rev. Dr. Philip Butin as the 10th president of the seminary. Dr. Butin, a scholar on the doctrine of the trinity, has served since 1993 as pastor at a Presbyterian church in New Mexico, where he co-founded an statewide ecumenical theological education program. He takes office at SFTS on July 1, 2002.   Renovation Recharges Seminary The buildings of academia sometimes signify what institutions value most: their history. In the halls of columned campuses and ivy-covered edifices, preservation of the past...
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Climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro and Other Life Lessons

  Martha Stortz: top row, second from right “The mountain can’t be conquered by climbing or captured in words. Better Job’s response, after YHWH speaks to him from the whirlwind”: Therefore I have uttered what I did not understand,Things too wonderful for me, which I did not know …I had heard of you by the hearing of the ear,But now my eye sees you … — Job 42:3-5 This is what Martha (Marty) Stortz says about her climb to the summit of Mt. Kilimanjaro, or the Shining Mountain — the tallest mountain in Africa. Stortz, GTU Core Doctoral Faculty and Professor of Historical...
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New Books

GTU alumni are busy publishing. Here are two more books published in 2008. … by Kate McCarthy, Ph.D. ’94 Interfaith Encounters in America Rutgers University Press “…essential reading for scholars of religion, sociology, and American Studies, as well as anyone who is concerned with the purported impossibility of religious pluralism.” —Amazon editorial review … by James Treat, Ph.D. ’93 Around the Sacred Fire: Native Religious Activism in the Red Power Era University of Illinois Press 2008 and Palgrave Macmillan / St. Martin’s Press, 2003 A cultural history of intertribal activism...
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Faculty News

A new book by GTU Emerita Professor of Historical Theology Margaret R. MilesBodies in Society: Essays on Christianity in Contemporary Culture, Cascade Books, 2008 Miles finds that Christianity, critically appropriated, provides ideas and methods for thinking concretely about life in North American society. Ted Peters, professor of Systematic Theology at the GTU and Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary, was named the Martin E. Marty Professor of Religion and the Academy at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. Martin Marty is a renowned observer and historiographer of 19th and 20th...
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Working and Giving with Heart

Alumni Working and Giving with Heart Howard Simon, attorney and corporate executive, has managed to blend two seemingly disparate career tracks into one path, taking the seeds of ethics, compassion, and collaboration he picked up at the Graduate Theological Union and planting them in California’s biotechnology industry. In 1985, Simon simultaneously earned an M.A. in Jewish Studies at the GTU and a law degree at UC Berkeley’s Boalt Hall. He was interested in ethics and how religious codes of moral conduct become legal mandates. “I looked at seminary as an antidote to law school,” he says...
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GTU Welcomes Arthur Holder Back

GTU welcomes Arthur Holder back to his job as Dean and Vice President for Academic Affairs and John Dillenberger Professor of Christian Spirituality. Holder returns from sabbatical, during which he worked on editing Christian Spirituality: The Classics. The volume will be published by Routledge in fall 2009. “I am grateful to the GTU for a sabbatical year, and especially to Judith Berling for serving so ably as Acting Dean. It is good to be back at the most exciting place in the world for theological and religious studies!”  
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Supporting the GTU

Yoshiko Kakudo Contributes to Homiletics Scholarships Yoshiko (Yoshi) Kakudo, artist and retired curator of Japanese Art at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum, gifted the GTU $10,000 for the Father Michael Monshau Scholarship in Homiletics. Ms. Kakudo is a friend of Father Monshau, a former member of the GTU Core Doctoral Faculty and professor of Homiletics at the Dominican School of Philosophy & Theology. She was curator at the San Francisco Asian Art Museum for more than 30 years, retiring in 1994. Marge Webb Supports Students in Church Administration When Margaret Webb chose to...
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GTU's Jesuit School Contributes to Launch of New Oakland Cathedral

A thousand years ago, the cathedral was the heart around which all the life of a medieval town revolved. Today the Cathedral of Christ the Light on the shore of Oakland’s Lake Merritt — the first cathedral built in the twenty-first century — is expected to serve more than 600,000 Catholics as “a place of welcome and inclusivity that embraces the diversity of faiths, peoples and cultures,” according to The Catholic Voice. As part of its outreach, the cathedral grounds will feature a small “healing garden” for survivors of clergy sexual abuse. Tom Scirghi, Associate Professor of Liturgy at the...
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Bringing GTU, At-Risk Youth Together through Art

GTU in the Community Bringing GTU, At-Risk Youth Together through Art Some students, immersed in theory, history, and doctrine, long for the practical. Abigail “Abby” King Kaiser found her way out of the ivory tower last summer by working with Youth Spirit Artworks (YSA) — an interfaith non-profit organization for East Bay homeless and at-risk youth. During a project with YSA for a class on “liberation art,” King Kaiser, a Pacific School of Religion M.Div. student concentrating in Art and Religion, found herself watching teenagers plan colorful painted murals on street side benches along...
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Martial Arts, Spirituality, Interfaith Vision: All of a Piece for New Student

New Students Martial Arts, Spirituality, Interfaith Vision: All of a Piece for New Student Walk up to a group of incoming Graduate Theological Union students and ask why they chose to study at the GTU. They’re bound to tell you one of the chief reasons is the opportunity to study in an interreligious setting and to encounter, come to understand, and learn from the “other.” Talk with them a bit and you’ll undoubtedly discover that they already bring rich and diverse backgrounds to the GTU. And that they have plans to use their ripening knowledge and practical skills to make a difference in...
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Recent Student Work

Dissertations Hak Soon Im, The Korean Self: Exploring Confucian and Indigenous Perspectives Jacob Hee Cheol Lee, Exploring Shame: Re-articulation through the Lens of Social Psychology and Korean Theology Jeanne Choy Tate, Culture and Caregiving, The Untold Story: Cultural, Developmental and Theological Challenges to a Psychology of Individualism  
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Recent Student Work

Dissertations Francis Tae-Young Chung, Creating a New Space: Gendered Space and Worship in Korean Church Architecture Jennifer Wilkins Davidson, The Narrative Practice of Memory as Identity in Concerns & Celebrations and the Pastoral Prayer: Constructing a Liturgical Theology of Prayer Wade Christopher Evans, “To Reveal the Riches of Your Grace”:  Examining the Authorized Eucharistic Christologies of the Episcopal Church with Implications Sharon R. Fennema, “Falling All Around Me:” Worship Performing Theodicy in the Midst of San Francisco’s AIDS Crisis Walter Roy Knowles, Numbering Liturgy:...
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A Profound Surprise: Presenting the History of Jews in Italy

The most surprising discovery for David Rosenberg-Wohl during his research into the life of Jews in Italy for a recent museum exhibit was the ambiguity of Jewish life in the Renaissance-era ghetto. A joint Graduate Theological Union/UC Berkeley doctoral student in Jewish Studies, Rosenberg-Wohl was given the task of curating “Forging Italian Jewish Identities 1516-1870” for the Museo ItalioAmericano in San Francisco. He dove into academic libraries around the country, interviewed Jewish historical scholars, sought the advice of museum display experts, and contacted photographers, museums, and...
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Recent Student Work

Dissertations Brooks Berndt, Preaching Amidst Class Conflict: A Class Analysis of Preaching in Oakland Young-Chang Cho, Understanding Metaphorical Sermons as Texts: Gadamer, Metaphor and Theological Interpretation of Sermons Won Yuol Lyu, The Significance of the Socio-Cultural Context in Preaching: A Critical Analysis of the Preaching of Donald Owens Debra J. Mumford, Above All Prosper: A Critical Analysis of the Preaching of Creflo Dollar, Jr.
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Recent Student Work

Dissertations Karen Chaney, Thinking Globally, Acting Nationally: Negotiating the Duties of Justice within the First World Agricultural Protectionism Debate at the World Trade Organization Kerry B. Danner-McDonald, Getting Behind Virtues: How Cognitive Linguistics Helps Explain the Function of the Imagination when Using Scripture in Christian Virtue Ethics Lynne Gerber, Ruling the Unruly Body: Cultural Capital and Symbolic Power in Two Parachurch Ministries Rebecca Gordon, The Practice of Torture: Ethical Approaches in the Post-9/11 Era Anne Elizabeth Lee, Made in the Images of God:  Toward a...
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Recent Student Work

Dissertations Andrei Antokhin, The Nature of Jerome’s Ascetic Hermeneutics in Adversus Jovinianum in the Light of the Fourth Century Christian, Textual and Theological Context Youngkeun Choi, Rethinking Protestant Nationalism in Colonial Korea, 1910-1945: Chŏng In-gwa and the Christianization of Korea Hee-Jung Ha, The Formation of Modern Womanhood in East Asia, 1880-1920: American Evangelical Gender Ideology and Modern Nation-Building Bradley Arthur Peterson, Towards a Protestant Monasticism: The Convent Life Expressed in the Evangelical Church Orders of 16th Century Germany Hyung Shin Park, ...
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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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