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...
AcademicsLife at GTUNews & EventsGTU AlumniGraduate Theological Union
For more than a decade, the GTU has offered its Visiting Scholar program to faculty from academic institutions who are visiting temporarily in the area and who are not employed locally either by the GTU or any other institution as well as to GTU alumni. The program is intended to enable and facilitate the research projects of those involved which could not be done otherwise. Visiting Scholars are granted full privileges at the GTU's Flora Lamson Hewlett Library and access to the libraries at the University of California, Berkeley. Members of the program are also able to audit courses at the...
AcademicsLife at GTUNews & EventsFaculty & Staff ResourcesLibraryGraduate Theological UnionGTU Alumni
These distinguished GTU alumni have been involved in activities around the world ranging from teaching and scholarship to social justice work or government policy. Wherever they are, they help nurture new leaders who cross religious and cultural divides to make our world a better place to live.
GTU Alum Directs Humane Society's Animals and Religion Program
Few people know about the harsh lives of approximately 10 billion animals raised on U.S. factory farms every year before appearing on our dinner plates. One who knows much about these animals is Christine Gutleben, M.A. '05. Gutleben is director of the Animals and Religion program of The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) and co-producer of the film Eating Mercifully, which showcases the plight of these animals, and profiles people who are engaged in what the Humane Society calls "the ethics of food and faith." The film premiered at the Washington National Cathedral last fall. The...
AcademicsGTU Alumni
Women's Voices Campaign
The GTU boasts one of the largest contingents of female theology students and alumnae in the country. Beginning on International Women's Day 2018 and continuing for more than six weeks, we featured a different quote from one of our alumnae each weekday on social media--and we've collected them all on this page. Thanks to all who took the time to share their stories! The GTU is proud of the work of all its female scholars--past, present, and future--and we look forward to seeing how you will continue to shape our world and make it a better place!
Admissions & AidAcademicsLife at GTUGTU Alumni
Purchase books from our a-store and help support GTU. Books Written or Edited by GTU Faculty 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 (under contract with Bloomsbury Academic, forthcoming 2020); Art and the Sacred Journey in Britain, 1790-1850 (Routledge, 2016). Purushottama ...
News & EventsGTU AlumniFaculty & Staff Resources
2017-2018 GTU Graduates
On May 10, 2018, the Graduate Theological Union honored forty-three MA and PhD graduates at its 2018 Commencement Exercises held in the LeConte Sanctuary at Zaytuna College. Graduates are listed below by degree, along with each graduate's thesis/dissertation title, area of study or school of affiliation, committee members, and thesis/dissertation abstract; language specialization is noted for MABL graduates in lieu of thesis information.