Cynthia Moe-Lobeda

Cynthia Moe-Lobeda serves as Professor of Theological and Social Ethics and Core Doctoral Faculty at the Graduate Theological Union (GTU) since 2015, affiliated with the Church Divinity School of the Pacific (CDSP) and Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary of California Lutheran University (PLTS-CLU). Her scholarship bridges theological ethics with urgent ecological and social justice imperatives.

Her academic foundation includes:

• PhD, Union Theological Seminary, 2001
• MTS, Wesley Theological Seminary, 1996
• MSW, University of Washington, 1981
• BA, St. Olaf College, 1976

Moe-Lobeda's research pioneers theo-ethical frameworks for confronting the climate crisis through racial and class analysis, interrogating economic globalization's moral dimensions, and articulating hope-driven resistance to structural evil. She examines resurrection and incarnation ethics as foundations for earth-centered justice, positioning faith communities at the forefront of systemic transformation where social and ecological well-being converge.

Her publications from 2002-2018 reveal consistent engagement with white privilege, political theology, and neoliberalism's ecological consequences. Key threads include climate debt accountability, church-based resistance to injustice, and love as an ecological-economic vocation—demonstrating how theological ethics must confront racialized economic structures to heal planetary brokenness.

As Core Doctoral Faculty, she mentors GTU doctoral candidates in theological ethics though specific advisees aren't listed. Her courses—including Climate Justice: Theology and Action in Relation and Earth Ethics as Justice Ethics—equip students to integrate radical love with public ministry and social transformation.