Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite

Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite

Professor, Chicago Theological Seminary

Rev. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite is professor of theology at Chicago Theological Seminary and senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. She was president of CTS from 1998-2008. Her area of expertise is contextual theologies of liberation, specializing in issues of violence and violation. An ordained minister of the United Church of Christ since 1974, the “On Faith” panelist is the author or editor of thirteen books and has been a translator for two translations of the Bible. Her works include Casting Stones: Prostitution and Liberation in Asia and the United States (1996) and The New Testament and Psalms: An Inclusive Translation (1995). She edited and contributed to Adam, Eve and the Genome: Theology in Dialogue with the Human Genome Project (2003). Close.

Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite

Professor, Chicago Theological Seminary

Rev. Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite is professor of theology at Chicago Theological Seminary and senior fellow at the Center for American Progress. She was president of CTS from 1998-2008. more »

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February 2007 Archives



February 8, 2007 2:43 PM

And the Creation Cried, "OUCH!"

The earth is hurting, wounded, though we hope not mortally, by human activity that has set in motion rapid and often destructive environmental changes.

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February 14, 2007 10:21 AM

Sex and the Single God

Chicago Theological Seminary is located across the street from the wonderful Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago and I often visit there.

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February 21, 2007 7:22 AM

As A Nation-State Israel Can Be Criticized

During the beginning of the war in Iraq, I was asked to give a lecture in Paris on some of my very public statements against the war and especially my rejection of the concept of preemptive war, that is, the idea that it is okay for the United States to attack a country that has not attacked us or one of our allies.


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