Gregory A. Walter,
Associate Professor of Religion
Gregory Walter earned degrees from St. Olaf College (BA Mathematics,1996); Luther Seminary (MDiv, 2000); Princeton Theological Seminary (PhD in Systematic Theology, 2006).
He teaches various theology courses and sections of the first-year course: Religion 121, The Bible, Culture, and Community. His theology courses mainly consider radical and traditional Christian claims and their contemporary plausibility when thinking about everyday human culture. This has lead him to teach a course on a dialogue between Martin Luther and Thomas Aquinas (Religion 234), a course that does theology in dialogue with the Hindu school of theology, Advaita Vedanta (Religion 245), and a course that considers the interaction of culture and theology by reading The Lord of the Rings (Religion 238).
Gregory Walter's recent research and writing involves theological use of phenomenology and critical social theory, as well as the thought of Martin Luther and Johann Georg Hamann. This has lead him to write on questions of the gift, promise, aesthetics, sovereignty, divine possibility, and the Trinity.
Gregory enjoys baking, gardening, baseball, and keeping up with his family.
Office:
Boe Chapel 108B
E-mail: walter@stolaf.edu
