Joseph Sittler
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1904 – 1987
Who was Joseph Sittler?
Joseph Sittler was an American Lutheran theologian who taught at the Divinity School of the University of Chicago and the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago. He is widely credited with pioneering the links between Christian theology and ecological thought, having written about environmental matters as early as the 1950s. He continually insisted that care for the earth and its environment is a central concern of the Christian religion.
He was also interested in the topics of aging, grace, religion and science, narrative in preaching, and biblical interpretation.
He was the uncle of German actor Walter Sittler.
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