Paul Kirbas, Ph.D.
Paul Kirbas is the President and CEO of the Graduate Theological Foundation, and the Paul Tillich Professor of Theology and Culture. He is also a Fellow at the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics. He is minister of the Presbyterian Church USA, and holds the Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry Degrees from Columbia Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. in Theological Studies from the Graduate Theological Foundation. His Ph.D. studies have focused on the intersection of theology and nature, in collaboration with John Kerr, past Warden of the Society of Ordained Scientists in the United Kingdom. His academic appointments have included being appointed as the Guest Associate Professor of Theology at Wheaton College, and an adjunct professor of Philosophy at North Central College in Naperville, IL. Dr. Kirbas is the founder and president of the Kirbas Institute, which offers events, curriculum, and a TV program that builds bridges between spirituality and science.
- Dr. Kirbas is the Founder of the Kirbas Institute
- Navigating Through A Stipulated Freedom: Discovering a Guiding Biblical Compass For the Journey of Biotechnology
- This Sacred Earth: Scientific and Religious Perspectives on Nature and Humanity’s Place Within It
- Presbyterian (Ordained)
- Theology; Pastoral Care & Counseling; Ecclesiastical History
- Liturgy/Worship/Music; Ethics & Biotechnology
- Protestant (19th & 20th Century)
- Reformation Studies
- Religion and Science
- Thesis Supervision
- Project Consultant
- Online Courses
- BIS 503 A Biblical Theology for Biotechnology
- TCH 510 God, Nature, and Us: An Interdisciplinary Approach to a new Paradigm for the Human Place in Nature
- PCM 511 Clergy Options to Parish Ministry
- PCM 512 Ministry as a Profession in a Changing World
- PCC 511 Pastoral Issues in Clinical Psychology
- SPI 519 A Spirituality for the Everyday
- SPI 520 Faith and Fear
- LDS 514 Vocation and Call
- LDS 507 Prophetic Leadership
- LDS 511 Special Topics in Transformational Leadership
- SOE 511 Transforming Leadership for Social Change: Social Analysis for the 21st Century