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ANDREW DREITCER
Professor of Spirituality, Director of Spiritual Formation,
Co-Director of the Center for Engaged Compassion
Associate Professor of Religion, History of Christianity, Claremont Graduate University
On Sabbatical Leave: 2010-2011
Office: Craig 102
Phone: (909) 447-2537
Email: adreitcer@cst.edu
Dr. Dreitcer has been the co-founding director of a seminary program in spiritual direction and served 15 years as a Presbyterian pastor. A year spent at the ecumenical monastic community of Taizé significantly shaped his own spiritual life and his perspective on both the role of spiritual formation in theological studies and the value of contemplative studies in academia.
Dr. Dreitcer’s current research and teaching interests lie in the exploration of the nature and experience of contemplative practices across religious traditions, the relationship between spiritual practices and neuroscientific understandings (http://neurospirituality.blogspot.com), the ways in which contemplative practices form compassionate actions and attitudes of living, and Christianity as a spiritual path of engaged compassion (www.triptykos.com).
EDUCATION
B.A., Wabash College
M.Div., Yale Divinity School
Ph.D., Graduate Theological Union
RECENT PUBLICATIONS / ACHIEVEMENTS
Beyond the Ordinary: Spirituality for Church Leaders
(Eerdmans, 2001)
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