Frank Kirkpatrick, Trinity College
Professor
Hartford, Connecticut
Frank.Kirkpatrick@trincoll.edu
Office:
(860) 297-2476
Bio/Research
Frank Kirkpatrick has taught at Trinity since 1969. A 1964 graduate of the college (majoring in Religion), Professor Kirkpatrick has a Master’s Degree in Comparative Religion from Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary (1966) and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Brown University (197...
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Bio/Research
Frank Kirkpatrick has taught at Trinity since 1969. A 1964 graduate of the college (majoring in Religion), Professor Kirkpatrick has a Master’s Degree in Comparative Religion from Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary (1966) and a Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Brown University (1970). He specializes in three areas: the philosophy of religion, Christian social ethics, and the history of Christian thought in the West.
Professor Kirkpatrick seeks to engage students in the ongoing conversations about religious and philosophical ideas that have influenced western civilization. He exposes his students to the original writings of major religious thinkers, having them discuss and debate the conflicts inherent in those ideas, and helping them to come to their own understandings and creative responses.
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Professor Kirkpatrick seeks to engage students in the ongoing conversations about religious and philosophical ideas that have influenced western civilization. He exposes his students to the original writings of major religious thinkers, having them discuss and debate the conflicts inherent in those ideas, and helping them to come to their own understandings and creative responses.
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