Senior Research Fellow
Department of Theology and Religious Studies
September 25, 2026
Berkley Center Senior Research Fellow Erin Cline joined Rv. Kevin O'Brien, S.J., for a keynote at Fairfield University's national conference that discussed ways spiritual directors can draw on retreatants' own religious traditions to adapt the Exercises.
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, and 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 17 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 she has just published a new translation of one of the most influential Chinese texts in human history, The Analects: A Contemporary Translation (2026).
