Anna Case-Winters
Contact information
Field of Study:Theology, Ecumensim
Designation:Professor of Theology
Email:acase-winters@mccormick.edu
Department:Theology
Extension: 6321
Office: 309
Rev. Dr. Anna Case-Winters is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA) and serves as Professor of Theology at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago where she has been on faculty since 1986. Case-Winters has research interests and publications in several areas: systematic theology, dialogues in religion and science, open and relational theologies, theological contributions of Reformed tradition, theologies of liberation, and theologies attending to global economic, ecumenical, ecological issues.
In the wider church, Case-Winters has served as a pastor and a denominational leader. For the PCUSA, at the national General Assembly level, she has chaired the Code of Professional Ethics Committee, the Committee on Confessions and Christology, and the Search Committee for the Stated Clerk. In two terms as Chair for Christian Unity, she furthered the work of ecumenism that has marked her ministry.
Prof. Case-Winters has also been a leader at the global level in the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC). There she has served in many roles: ten years as Moderator of the Theological Committee for the Caribbean and North American Area; six years as Co-Chair of the International Commission for Lutheran and Reformed Relations, theological consultant for the Reformation Commemoration in Wittenberg in 2017, and theological resource person for General Councils in 2004, 2010, and 2017. She is presently involved in ongoing consultations among five global communions (Roman Catholic, Lutheran, Reformed, Anglican, and Methodist), and she continues as Moderator of the Strategic Program Planning Group for WCRC.
Prof. Case-Winters is a grant recipient and project leader for the Science for Seminaries program, an initiative of AAAS and ATS. She has also received grants from the Templeton Foundation including: the Religion and Science Course Award, the Templeton/ASA Lecture Series Grant, and the Exemplary Paper in Humility Theology Award. In 2020, she was inducted as a fellow into the International Institute on Religion and Science.
Prof. Case-Winters is the author of four books: God’s Power: Traditional Understandings and Contemporary Challenges; Reconstructing a Christian Theology of Nature: Down to Earth; A Theological Commentary on Matthew; and God Will be All in All: Theology Through the Lens of Incarnation.
Education
B.A., Agnes Scott College
M.Div., Columbia Theological Seminary
Ph.D., Vanderbilt University
Courses
T 300 Introduction to Christian Theology
T/H 402 Reformed Tradition
T 430 God, Suffering, and Evil
T 400 Religion and Science
T 431 Process Theology
T/H/E 610 The Church in the World Today
T 445 The Unity of the Church
I 475/M 675 Environmental Leadership and Ministry