Alum Christopher Griffin Named Episcopal Church Foundation Fellow

The Rev. Christopher Griffin, Seabury class of 2002, has been named a 2005-2006 Fellow in the Episcopal Church Foundation Doctoral Fellowship Program. 

The purpose of this program is to build the learned leadership of the church by providing doctoral fellowships to outstanding seminary graduates planning teaching careers in theological education in the Episcopal Church in the United States.  Chris was nominated by the Seabury faculty last fall, and he learned late last week that he has been selected as one of four Fellows for the coming year.  Chris is currently a doctoral student at the University of Chicago Divinity School, where he is integrating his theological studies with his work with “at risk” children.  In his application for the fellowship, Chris described his primary interest as “constructing a ‘new’ liberation theology that places the stories of oppressed children at its center, next to the Gospels.”

As a Fellow, Chris joins a group of distinguished scholars, including faculty members A. K. M. Adam, John Dally, and Ellen Wondra, our new Dean and President Gary Hall, and trustee Eugene Lowe, as well as Margaret Adam, a Seabury graduate who is a 2004-2005 Fellow.

Posted at February 14, 2005 05:20 PM