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A Meeting of the Waters

Friday, April 17th 2020

In this online event, Dr. Rita Sherma and Dr. Devin Phillip Zuber co-chairs of the GTU’s Sustainability 360 Initiative, reflect on how this current great disruption has pushed us to return to our roots, and to reengage and reread the texts we love that have so formatively shaped us. You can find both a video reflection and blog from them on our website after noon PST on April 17, 2020.

Online Event

Visualizing Kabbalist Gestures

Wednesday, October 2nd 2019, 5:00pm to 7:00pm

Please join us for a lecture from Nathan Timpano on images of kabbalist gestures in Viennese Expressionist art.

Doug Adams Gallery

American Philosophy: The Spiritual and the Real

Wednesday, October 18th 2017, 5:30pm

A talk by professor John Kaag, University of Massachusetts, Lowell.

Doug Adams Gallery

October 24, 2016

From the President

From the Fall 2016 issue of Currents, view PDF
by Dr. Riess Potterveld

One of my disciplines as president of the GTU is to scan the thick magazines published by universities, colleges, and theological schools to monitor the evolution of education. There are an incredible number of stories about students, faculty, and whole academic fields seeking to impact specific global issues.

Recently, the GTU secured a...

Panel Discussion: Spiritual Ecology

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

October 01, 2015

Center for Swedenborgian Studies Becomes the GTU's Newest Center of Distinction

The Graduate Theological Union is pleased to welcome the Center for Swedenborgian Studies (CSS) as its newest Center of Distinction. The Center for Swedenborgian Studies offers theological education to men and women seeking to minister within the Swedenborgian Church, serves as a hub for scholarship regarding the Swedenborgian tradition, and provides Swedenborgian theological resources for the wider church and community.

CSS joins the Graduate Theological Union after fifteen successful and productive years as a House of Studies within Pacific School of Religion, one of the eight...

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