Researcher
ericksoj(at)tcd.ie
Jacob J. Erickson is Assistant Professor of Theological Ethics in the School of Religion at Trinity College Dublin, where he also serves as Course Coordinator for the School’s innovative BA Hons. in Religion. As a constructive theologian and theological ethicist, Erickson’s work explores fundamental questions related to living in the wake of climate change. From issues of climate justice to climate resilience, from questions of biodiversity to geophysics, Erickson’s research asks what it means to do theology and ethics in a “planetary” manner.
He is currently working on an extended project on the intersections of global warming and theology called *A Theopoetics of the Earth: Divinity in the Anthropocene* and also working on a number of projects related to the complicated eco-affects, feelings, and emotions associated with climate change such as eco-grief and environmental despair. Erickson’s a contributor to six academic books of theology, The Huffington Post, and Religion Dispatches. His 2015 Religion Dispatches piece on Pope Francis’ “climate encyclical” won the Wilbur Award from the Religion Communicators Council. He serves on the editorial board of Dialog: A Journal of Theology. And with Dr. Filipe Maia, he co-chairs the Sacred Texts, Theory, and Theological Construction Unit and serves on the Steering Committee for the Martin Luther and Global Lutheran Traditions Unit for the American Academy of Religion.
The Project
