Steven Bouma-Prediger

Steven Bouma-Prediger
Professor of Religion and Director of the Environmental Studies at Hope College

Steven Bouma-Prediger is Professor of Religion and Director of the Environmental Studies program at Hope College in Holland, Michigan. He is a graduate of Hope College, with a major in mathematics/computer science. He has graduate degrees in philosophy from the Institute for Christian Studies in Toronto, Ontario, and in theology from Fuller Theological Seminary in Pasadena, California. In 1992 he earned the Ph.D. in religious studies from The University of Chicago.

Prof. Bouma-Prediger has written over 100 articles, essays, and reviews and his book publications include: The Greening of Theology: The Ecological Models of Rosemary Radford Ruether, Joseph Sittler, and Jürgen Moltmann (Scholars Press/Oxford University Press, 1995); Assessing the Ark: A Christian Perspective on Nonhuman Creatures and the Endangered Species Act (Crossroads, 1997), co-authored with Virginia Vroblesky; Evocations of Grace: The Writings of Joseph Sittler on Ecology, Theology, and Ethics (Eerdmans, 2000), coedited with Peter Bakken; For the Beauty of the Earth: A Christian Vision for Creation Care (Baker Academic, 2001, revised second edition 2010), which received an Award of Merit as one of the best books of the year by Christianity Today; and Beyond Homelessness: Christian Faith in an Culture of Displacement (Eerdmans, 2008), co-authored with Brian Walsh. He is currently working on Earthkeeping and Character: Explorations in Christian Ecological Virtue Ethics.

In 1994, while teaching at North Park College, Prof. Bouma-Prediger was named to the Chicago Tribune All-Star Professor Team for Chicago area colleges. The Hope College class of 1998 invited him to deliver the Commencement address, the class of 1999 voted him the recipient of the Hope Outstanding Professor-Educator Award, and in 2001 the Hope student body selected him for the Outstanding Faculty Award.

His wife, Celaine, is a marriage and family therapist, a spiritual director, and an ordained minister in the Reformed Church in America. They have three girls. Anna is a 2011 Hope College graduate living and working as a photographer in Brooklyn, New York. Chara is a 2014 graduate of Northland College, in Ashland Wisconsin, serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in Paraguay. Sophia is a recent graduate of Hope College, currently trying to figure out where in South America to use her Spanish major for the greater good of our home planet. Professor Bouma-Prediger and his wife live in a 123 year old home in downtown Holland, Michigan. He spends as much time as possible outside, including taking students whitewater rafting, flatwater canoeing, and backpacking in the Adirondacks of upstate New York every May as part of a 3 week long Hope course entitled “Ecological Theology and Ethics.”

Presentations at Calvin University

Steven Bouma-Prediger at FIDC
Part of the: Faith and International Development
Thursday, February 8, 2018 03:38:00 PM
Calvin College Chapel