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Faculty Associate in Christian Theology

Ph.D. (Yale Univeristy)
M.Phil, M.A. (Yale University)
M.A.R. (Yale Divinity School, summa cum laude)
B.A. (Willamette University, cum laude)

Areas of Interest:
Constructive Theology
Doctrines of the Trinity
Militarization
Religion and Politics

Ed Waggoner is Faculty Associate in Christian Theology and Coordinator of the International Ph.D. Program.  After living fourteen of his first sixteen years of life in the Philippines, Japan, and South Korea, on U.S. military bases, Dr. Waggoner studied at Willamette University, Yale Divinity School, and Yale University.  His primary aim is to think creatively and theologically about individual and social change, drawing from the full gamut of traditional theological sources but also marginalized or emerging Christian communities and contemporary social, political, and philosophical thought.

Dr. Waggoner works in the areas of constructive/systematic theology and religion and politics.  He is currently writing a book entitled, Schleiermacher’s Living World, which argues that organicist premises about the world illumine and integrate Schleiermacher’s major claims about theology, religion, theological education, philosophy, and ethics.  Dr. Waggoner is developing a constructive doctrine of the Trinity that emphasizes human experience and engages both ‘classical’ and global, contemporary Trinitarian theologies.  Incorporating his experience living in military communities overseas, Dr. Waggoner also researches and writes about the role of religion and theology in social and political processes of militarization.

Before coming to Hartford Seminary, Dr. Waggoner taught as a Lecturer at Yale Divinity School.  A recipient of a John F. Enders Fellowship and Research Grant from Yale University, and the Episcopal Church Foundation Fellowship, Dr. Waggoner’s teaching features historical theology, modern systematic theology, liberation theologies, and contemporary issues in religious studies.  He has ongoing interests in issues currently facing the Episcopal Church and the wider Anglican Communion, and in their implications for global Christianities.