On Thursday, May 9, 2019, the Graduate Theological Union honored thirty-five graduates at its 2019 Commencement Exercises.
Videos
Invocation
Rabbi Daniel L. Lehmann, celebrating his first commencement as president of the GTU, greeted scholars and attendees, expressed gratitude for the service of retiring faculty and staff, and offered remembrances for those from the GTU extended community who have passed. President Lehmann urged graduates to take with them the vision that is lived out at the GTU: “The world desperately needs what you have learned here. We need not only your creative and inspired scholarship, but also your understanding and celebration of religious diversity and the power of religious pluralism.”
Greetings and Remembrances
Dean Uriah Kim addressed the gathering, celebrating the graduates for their hard work and commitment. Dean Kim then announced that Dr. Arthur G. Holder, professor of Christian Spirituality and former dean of the GTU was the recipient of the 2019 GTU Excellence in Teaching Award.
Remarks by a Faculty Member
Dr. Gina Hens-Piazza, professor of Old Testament Studies and Joseph S. Alemany Endowed Chair at the Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University, addressed the graduates on behalf of the GTU faculty, offering remarks on the theme of “What Every Graduate Should Know.” Welcoming the new graduates as colleagues, she urged them to be visionary leaders who seek to learn from their mistakes and to embrace creative possibilities even in tasks they might not choose.
Conferral of Degrees
The scholarly work of each graduate is celebrated by a GTU faculty member with whom they’d worked closely.
Remarks by a Graduate
Following the conferring of degrees, graduate Henry Kuo (PhD, Systematic and Philosophical Theology) spoke on behalf of the Class of 2019, anticipating the journey from “From Holy Hill to the World.” Kuo urged his fellow graduates to acts of “hope-making,” challenging despair and injustice not simply by critiquing the ruling paradigms, but by “doing the hard work of building a better community.”
Benediction
Rhiana Wiggins, (MA, Buddhist Studies) offered words of benediction, encouraging her fellow graduates to move forward steeped in wisdom and compassion, and full of gratitude for all that is.
Graduates
Doctor of Philosophy
Horacio R. Da Valle
Latino/a Personal Identity: A Postmodern Critique of the Modern Self
Thomas Cattoi (Coordinator)
Eduardo C. Fernández, S.J.
Jay Emerson Johnson
Luis N. Rivera-Pagán, Princeton Theological Seminary
The central focus of this dissertation is the anthropological question of personal identity from the perspective of Latino/a theology. Using a Foucauldian critique to modern certainties about the self, this dissertation asserts that a notion of human praxis correlative to Foucault’s concept of care of the self opens the possibility of resistance to power and to the free articulation of identities.
Sarah Kohles, O.S.F.
Women at the Window: A Feminist Reading of Sisera’s Mother (Judges 5:28-30), Michal (2 Sam 6:16-23), and Jezebel (2 Kgs 9:30-37)
Biblical Studies
Gina Hens-Piazza (Coordinator)
Rebecca K. Esterson
Carol Dempsey, University of Portland
Women at the window is a common literary motif in Hebrew Bible narratives, particularly Sisera’s mother (Judges 5:28-30), Michal (2 Samuel 6:16-23), and Jezebel (2 Kings 9:30-37). Engaging literary methods and sociohistoric research through a feminist lens allows for interpreting these women as positively featured in their window scenes rather than contained, thereby broadening and challenging the existing interpretation of the woman at the window motif.
Horacio R. Da Valle
Latino/a Personal Identity: A Postmodern Critique of the Modern Self
Thomas Cattoi (Coordinator)
Eduardo C. Fernández, S.J.
Jay Emerson Johnson
Luis N. Rivera-Pagán, Princeton Theological Seminary
The central focus of this dissertation is the anthropological question of personal identity from the perspective of Latino/a theology. Using a Foucauldian critique to modern certainties about the self, this dissertation asserts that a notion of human praxis correlative to Foucault’s concept of care of the self opens the possibility of resistance to power and to the free articulation of identities.
Horacio R. Da Valle
Latino/a Personal Identity: A Postmodern Critique of the Modern Self
Thomas Cattoi (Coordinator)
Eduardo C. Fernández, S.J.
Jay Emerson Johnson
Luis N. Rivera-Pagán, Princeton Theological Seminary
The central focus of this dissertation is the anthropological question of personal identity from the perspective of Latino/a theology. Using a Foucauldian critique to modern certainties about the self, this dissertation asserts that a notion of human praxis correlative to Foucault’s concept of care of the self opens the possibility of resistance to power and to the free articulation of identities.
Master of Arts
Horacio R. Da Valle
Latino/a Personal Identity: A Postmodern Critique of the Modern Self
Horacio R. Da Valle
Latino/a Personal Identity: A Postmodern Critique of the Modern Self
Horacio R. Da Valle
Latino/a Personal Identity: A Postmodern Critique of the Modern Self
Horacio R. Da Valle
Latino/a Personal Identity: A Postmodern Critique of the Modern Self
Horacio R. Da Valle
Latino/a Personal Identity: A Postmodern Critique of the Modern Self
Horacio R. Da Valle
Latino/a Personal Identity: A Postmodern Critique of the Modern Self
Horacio R. Da Valle
Latino/a Personal Identity: A Postmodern Critique of the Modern Self
Horacio R. Da Valle
Latino/a Personal Identity: A Postmodern Critique of the Modern Self
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Introduction
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