Susan B. Thistlethwaite
The Reverend Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite, PhD is Professor of Theology Emerita and President Emerita at CTS. She was President of the seminary from 1998-2008. Upon completing two five-year terms as President, she returned to full-time teaching on the seminary faculty. She has a PhD from Duke University, a Masters of Divinity (Summa Cum Laude) from Duke Divinity School and a BA from Smith College. An ordained minister of the United Church of Christ since 1974, she is the author or editor of numerous books and has been a translator for two different translations of the Bible.
Thistlethwaite is currently working in a new area she calls “Public Theology.” She writes a weekly column for the Washington Post “On Faith” online section and is a frequent media commentator on religion and public events. Her new book, Dreaming of Eden: American Religion and Politics in a Wired World, will be published in October 2010 by Palgrave-Macmillan.
Her previous works include Interfaith Just Peacemaking: Alternatives to War, edited with Glen Stassen (United States Institute of Peace, 2008), Adam, Eve and the Genome: Theology in Dialogue with the Human Genome
Project (Fortress Press, 2003), Lift Every Voice: Constructing Christian Theologies from the Underside with Mary Potter Engel (Orbis, 1998), Sex, Race and God: Christian Feminism in Black and White (reprinted, 2009), Casting Stones: Prostitution and Liberation in Asia and the United States with Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock (Fortress, 1996) and The New Testament and Psalms: An Inclusive Translation (Oxford University Press, 1995). Interfaith Just Peacemaking is currently being expanded into a book.
She is a Fellow of the Center for American Progress Faith and Progressive Policy Initiative and serves as a trustee of Faith in Public Life, and the Interfaith Youth Core.
Education:
- BA, Smith College
- MDiv, Duke Divinity School
- PhD, Duke University
Sample Courses:
- The New Testament and Psalms: An Inclusive Translation
- Interfaith Just Peacemaking (is currently being expanded into a book)
Writings:
- Women’s Bodies as Battlefield: Christian Theology and the Global War on Women
- Interfaith Just Peacemaking: Alternatives to War, edited with Glen Stassen (is currently being expanded into a book)
- Adam, Eve and the Genome: Theology in Dialogue with the Human Genome Project
- Lift Every Voice: Constructing Christian Theologies from the Underside with Mary Potter Engel
- Sex, Race and God: Christian Feminism in Black and White
- Casting Stones: Prostitution and Liberation in Asia and the United States with Rita Nakashima Brock
- The New Testament and Psalms: An Inclusive Translation