Paul J. Kirbas

Dr. Paul J. Kirbas holds the Master of Divinity and Doctor of Ministry degrees from Columbia Seminary, and a PhD in Theological Studies from the Graduate Theological Foundation. His doctoral studies focused on a Theology of Nature, and were supervised by Dr. John Kerr, Oxford Professor and former Warden of the Society of Ordained Scientists.

Dr. Kirbas is the Paul Tillich Professor of Theology and Culture at the Graduate Theological Foundation in South Bend, Indiana,an Adjunct Professor of Theology at Wheaton College in Wheaton, IL, and an Adjunct Professor of Philosophy at North Central College in Naperville, IL. He is an Ordained Minister in the Presbyterian Church USA, and has served as Senior Pastor in several large churches in his 22 years of ministry. Since 2006, he has served as the Senior Pastor at the First Presbyterian Church of Wheaton.

Dr. Kirbas is the author of This Sacred Earth (Wyndham Hall Press, 2011),Navigating Through a Stipulated Freedom : Discovering a Guiding Biblical Ethic for the Journey of Biotechnology, now in its second edition (Wyndham Hall Press, 2010), and a contributing author of Benedict XVI Considered: Interfaith Perspectives on the Modern Papacy (Victoria Press, 2009). Several of his public lectures have been professionally filmed and are in DVD packages that have been used in churches and similar organizations around the country.