Charles R. Marsh

Commonwealth Professor of Religious Studies

E-mail:
Phone: 434-924-6839

Address:
Department of Religious Studies
PO Box 400126
Charlottesville, VA 22904-4126

Address:

The Project on Lived Theology
033 Gibson Hall
1540 Jefferson Park Avenue
Charlottesville, VA 22903

Research Interests

Modern Christian Thought, religion and civil rights, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, religion and mental health, lived theology

Recent Awards

2009 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship in the Creative Arts

2010 Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow, American Academy in Berlin

Current Research Project

Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Knopf, 2012; German Translation, Ullstein, 2012)

 

Education

• Bachelor of Arts (BA), Gordon College, 1981
• Master of Theological Studies (MTS), Harvard Divinity School, 1983
• Master of Arts (MA), University of Virginia, 1988
• Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Virginia, 1989

 

Courses 

Religion 242: Kingdom of God in America

Religion 345: Theology, Self and Society

Religion 322: God and the Mystery of the World

Religion 509: Theologies of Resistance and Reconciliation: Dietrich Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther King, Jr.

Religion 507: The Civil Rights Movements: Theological and Religious Perspectives

Religion 802: Readings in Post-Colonial Theology

Religion 805: Readings in Feminist Theory

Religion 880: Readings in Lived Theology

The Project on Lived Theology

The Project on Lived Theology is a research initiative housed in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia that explores the social consequences of theological commitments.