Rate My Professor Anna Case-Winters

Rev. Dr. Anna Case-Winters is Professor of Theology at McCormick Theological Seminary in Chicago, where she has served on the faculty since 1986. Her academic background includes a B.A. from Agnes Scott College, an M.Div. from Columbia Theological Seminary, and a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. An ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church (USA), she has extensive experience as a pastor and denominational leader. Within the PCUSA at the national General Assembly level, she chaired the Code of Professional Ethics Committee, the Committee on Confessions and Christology, and the Search Committee for the Stated Clerk, and served two terms as Chair for Christian Unity. In the World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC), she held positions such as Moderator of the Theological Committee for the Caribbean and North American Area for ten years, Co-Chair of the International Commission for Lutheran and Reformed Relations for six years, theological consultant for the 2017 Reformation Commemoration in Wittenberg, and resource person for General Councils in 2004, 2010, and 2017. She currently moderates the WCRC Strategic Program Planning Group and engages in multi-communion ecumenical consultations.

Case-Winters' research interests include systematic theology, dialogues in religion and science, open and relational theologies, theological contributions of the Reformed tradition, theologies of liberation, and theologies attending to global economic, ecumenical, and ecological issues. She 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. Her teaching includes Introduction to Christian Theology, Reformed Tradition, God, Suffering, and Evil, Religion and Science, Process Theology, The Church in the World Today, The Unity of the Church, and Environmental Leadership and Ministry. She led the Science for Seminaries program (AAAS/ATS) and received Templeton Foundation grants: Religion and Science Course Award, Templeton/ASA Lecture Series Grant, and Exemplary Paper in Humility Theology Award. In 2020, she was inducted as a fellow into the International Institute on Religion and Science.