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Prof. Kirsten Macfarlane Wins Roland H. Bainton Theology and Religion Prize
The University of Chicago Divinity School congratulates Kirsten Macfarlane, Associate Professor of Early Modern Religious and Intellectual History, whose book Lay Learning and the Bible in the Seventeenth-Century Atlantic World (Oxford University Pre...
November 4, 2025
Professor Schultz tells how Colorado Springs became ‘evangelical Vatican’
Professor William J. Schultz and his new book, Jesus Springs: Evangelical Capitalism and the Fate of an American City were mentioned in an article entitled, "Historian tells how Colorado Springs became ‘evangelical Vatican’"."'Worship attendance soar...
October 20, 2025
Aims of a Divinity Education: A Life of Inquiry in Our Time
Erin Galgay Walsh, Assistant Professor of New Testament and Early Christian Literature; Associate Faculty, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, delivered these remarks during the Divinity School's 2025 Welcome Ceremony on September 26, 2025.First, I wa...
October 8, 2025
Marshall Cunningham Talks Grand Theft Auto and his course 'Gaming the Gods' with Canadian Talk Show Host
Grand Theft Auto isn’t the first place you’d expect to find religious tropes… but “Jesus Saves” checkpoints, cults, morality systems...they’re all there. On this episode of The Last Show with David Cooper, Marshall Cunningham, Assistant Instructio...
September 17, 2025
Prof. Jean-Luc Marion's 'Tribute to David Tracy' in Church Life Journal
Jean-Luc Marion, Andrew Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Professor of Catholic Studies and Professor of the Philosophy of Religions and Theology, and Professor in the Committee on Social Thought and Philosophy at the University of Chicago, ...
July 30, 2025
Prof. Raissa von Doetinchem de Rande publishes 'The Politics of Islamic Ethics'
Assistant Professor of Religious Ethics Raissa von Doetinchem de Rande's new book, The Politics of Islamic Ethics: Hierarchy and Human Nature in the Philosophical Tradition (Cambridge, July 2025), was published this week.The book investigates two cen...
July 16, 2025
Prof. Christian Wedemeyer on the Dalai Lama for 'The New York Post'
“The Dalai Lama is setting up, and he’s making as much noise as he can to say that the Chinese have no business having anything to do with this,” Christian Wedemeyer, associate professor of the history of religion told The New York Post for a story e...
July 1, 2025
Prof. Laurie Zoloth on 'Superbabies' for Bloomberg
Prof. Laurie Zoloth was called upon as an expert source for a recent Bloomberg article, 'Superbabies' Startup Seeks Funds for Controversial Gene Editing Push."Experts would be especially concerned if the efforts are conducted in private laboratories ...
June 27, 2025
Prof. Richard Rosengarten Delivers 2025 Convocation Speech entitled "Princely Radicals and Radical Princes, or, Life Post-Divinity School"
Richard A. Rosengarten, Associate Professor of Religion and Literature, delivered the Convocation address at the Divinity School ceremony held on Friday, June 6, 2025, in Rockefeller Chapel. Below is a transcript of the address, edited for readabilit...
June 12, 2025
Prof. López-Ruiz on Phoenician's Purple Dye for History.com
In a piece for History.com on a purple dye that Phoenicians were renowned for, Prof. Carolina López-Ruiz provided context about the way it was traded:“University of Chicago historian Carolina López-Ruiz, the author of Phoenicians and the Making of th...
June 12, 2025