Join us for a conversation with Dr. Arvin Gouw, Dr. Brian Patrick Green, and Dr. Ted Peters on their latest publication: Religious Transhumanism and Its Critics (Lexington Books).
Join the Graduate Theological Union in celebrating 40 years of visionary leadership from Dr. Robert Russell, who recently announced his retirement as Ian G. Barbour Professor of Theology and Science and Director of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS). A celebration of Dr. Russell will be held on Thursday, May 19 from 5:00–7:00 pm (PT) in the GTU Boardroom and adjacent Outdoor Terrace, as well as online via Zoom. Colleagues, former students, and others will be invited to share their appreciation of Dr. Russell.
Climate justice may be the foremost moral challenge of the 21st century. Humankind – or rather parts of us – are threatening Earth’s capacity to regenerate and support life, including human life. Race and class dimensions of the climate crisis are haunting and daunting. While caused primarily by high-consuming people, climate change is wreaking death and destruction first and foremost on impoverished people who are disproportionately people of color. How are we to face this crisis with courage, wisdom, agency, and hope? What does religion bring to this question?
Our new president shares thoughts on interreligious education, diversity within community, and the mix of scholarship and religious commitment that makes the GTU unique. From the Fall 2018 Issue of Skylight.
From March 8-10, 2018, the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences (CTNS) at the GTU hosted noted theologian Ron Cole-Turner as this year’s CTNS Russell Family Fellow in Religion and Science.
Neither Aristotle nor Aquinas assumes the reality of the evolution of species. Their systems of thought, however, remain open to the new data, offering an essential contribution to the ongoing research concerning scientific, philosophical, and theological aspects of the theory of evolution. Many enthusiasts of theistic evolution willingly accept Aquinas' distinction between primary and secondary, and principal and instrumental causes, to describe theologically "the mechanics" of transformism.
