Faculty Profiles

Kurt Buhring

Associate Professor

Religious Studies and Theology

57 Spes Unica Hall, Rm 156 E

PhD, University of Chicago Divinity School
MA, University of Chicago
BA, Grinnell College

Spirit(s) in Black Religion: Fire on the Inside. New York: Palgrave Macmillian, 2022.
"Jewish Theology and African American Theology.” In T & T Clark Companion to African American Theology, edited by Frederick Ware. London: T & T Clark, 2019.
"Day and Niebuhr on the Great Depression." In edited anthology of papers from Dorothy Day and the Church: Past, Present and Future, University of St. Francis, Fort Wayne, IN, 2015.
“The Spirit of Resistance: Dwight N. Hopkins’s Trinitarian Framework.” Black Theology: An International Journal, 10.2 (2012): 184-194.
Conceptions of God, Freedom, and Ethics in African American and Jewish Theology. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
“Toward a Theology of Resistance: Dwight N. Hopkins’ Spirit of Total Liberation in Us and Melissa Raphael’s Shekhinah as Sources for Constructive Theology.” American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL, November 2008.
“Pedagogical Reflections on the Virtues of Dialogue.” Saint Michael’s College, Colchester, VT, November 2005.
"Film as a Source for Constructive Theology: Conceptions of Human Nature in the Films of Martin Scorsese.” American Academy of Religion Midwest Regional Meeting, Chicago, IL, March 2002.

American Academy of Religion