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Erin Cline

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Department of Theology and Religious Studies

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Erin M. Cline, Ph.D., is the Paul J. and Chandler M. Tagliabue Distinguished Professor in Interfaith Studies & Dialogue at Georgetown University and Senior Research Fellow at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace & World Affairs. She is the author of seven books and numerous articles on Chinese philosophy and comparative religion. Her new book, The Problem of God: The Challenges of Faith, Religion & Spirituality Today (2026) draws on her work as a comparative theologian teaching Georgetown’s iconic course for the last seventeen years to an increasingly diverse student body (and features a Foreword by Otto Hentz, S.J.). Cline is a specialist in ancient Chinese philosophy and religion, and has just published a new translation of one of the most influential Chinese texts in human history, The Analects: A Contemporary Translation (2026). 

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