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Pia Chaudhari
Practical Theology Consortium
Pia Chaudhari commenced her doctoral work in the fall of 2010 at Union Theological Seminary in the department of Psychiatry & Religion, where she also received her M.A. the previous spring. Her interests lie in exploring the space between depth psychology and patristic and other classical Christian theological iterations in a way that seeks to engage the deep possibilities for healing and transformation contained therein.
Her earlier work focused on the Christus Victor model of atonement, and its potential existential ramifications with regard to the healing of both individual and societal complexes. This led to an exploration of theologies of transformation; most specifically that of the patristic concept of theosis. Her Master’s thesis was an initial exploration of the relationship between theosis and Carl Jung’s theory of individuation.
Her work is motivated by the experience that the space between psychoanalytic theory and theology is a beautiful, powerful, and life-giving space, and she is interested in how this calls both the church and clinical settings to a ministry of ‘life in abundance’. It is a space where the tools for discernment of that which is life-giving are rich and varied, as are the tools for speaking liberating truth to bondage in its myriad forms as well. She sees theology as gesturing towards that which has an ontic reality, and psychoanalytic work, ideally, as a sharing in this ontic reality in a way that brings healing. Both are works of love, and they also serve to hold each other accountable in different ways—it is this mutual testing, challenging and contributing that creates a space so full of possibilities of new understandings and new life.
Advisors: Ann Belford Ulanov and John McGuckin
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