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Professors Arnold and Stackert Appointed to Named Faculty Chairs
The University of Chicago Board of Trustees has confirmed Daniel Arnold as the John Henry Barrows Professor of Philosophy of Religions and Jeffrey Stackert as the Caroline E. Haskell Professor of Hebrew Bible. The Divinity School celebrates these fac...
May 23, 2025
Prof. Zoloth Named to Georgetown-Lancet Commission on Faith, Trust, and Health
Laurie Zoloth, Margaret E. Burton Professor of Religion and Ethics, has been named to the new Georgetown-Lancet Commission on Faith, Trust, and Health. The commission will explore how the interplay across these spheres can improve health outcomes and...
May 22, 2025
Teaching and Contemplation
St. Bernard of Clairvaux, in writing to his students in his Sermons on the Song of Songs, urged them not to strive for the “knowledge which puffed them up” but for the love “which builds up.”[1] Bernard taught that knowledge, without love, was vanit...
May 21, 2025
Christianity Today Quotes Professor William Schultz
In a piece for Christianity Today titled, The Gospel of $TRUMP, William Schultz, Assistant Professor of American Religions at the Divinity School comments on the allure of President Trump's cryptocurrency: “I don’t think it’s a matter of ‘This will t...
May 21, 2025
David Tracy, 86, Theologian Who Rejected Rome’s Supremacy, Dies
The New York Times published an obituary remembering Prof David Tracy on May 16, 2025. Author Trip Gabriel writes: "The Rev. David Tracy, a leading liberal Catholic theologian who open-sourced his understanding of God, borrowing from Jews, Buddhists ...
May 16, 2025
Prof. Zoloth Quoted in NPR Bioethics Story
Laurie Zoloth, the Margaret E. Burton Professor of Relgion and Ethics, was called upon as a bioethics expert for an NPR story about a promising genetic treatment tailor-made for a baby born with a rare disorder."'Many ethical issues were indeed clear...
May 16, 2025
Journal 'Science' Publishes Paper Co-Authored By Prof. Zoloth
On May 15, The journal Science published an article co-authored by Laurie Zoloth, Margaret E. Burton Professor of Religion and Ethics, entitled “Deliberate extinction by genome modification: An ethical challenge.”Read the full article here....
May 15, 2025
Alumnus Book wins Associated Church Press and Religion Communicators Council Awards
Baptizing America: How Mainline Protestants Helped Build Christian Nationalism (Chalice Press, 2024), co-authored by Brian Kaylor and Beau Underwood, MDV’10, MPP’10, won the Associated Church Press’ Award of Excellence on May 2, 2025. The authors als...
May 15, 2025
Prof. Schweiker Delivers Keynote at Yale Divinity School Conference on AI and Humanity
William Schweiker, Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Professor of Theological Ethics, gave the keynote speech at the Yale Divinity School “AI and the Ends of Humanity: Thinking Theologically After ChatGPT” conference last month. His talk on his recent ...
May 14, 2025
Marty Center Executive Director Emily Crews on Pope Leo's Childhood Church for the Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune interviewed Emily Crews, executive director of the Martin Marty Center for the Public Study of Religion for a piece entitled, "How the new Pope Leo XIV’s childhood church in Chicago fell into disrepair — and what may lie ahead.""E...
May 10, 2025