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Dr Toar B. Hutagalung is currently the Director of Theology and Church History at the Uniting College for Leadership and Theology (UCLT)

Dr Hutagalung is an alum of Jakarta Theological Seminary, Indonesia. He received his master’s degree from Andover Newton Theological School and then graduated from his Doctoral studies at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, both in the USA. He continued to stay there teaching theology and religious studies at Loyola University Chicago, North Central College, and United Theological Seminary of the Twin Cities.

Dr Hutagalung’s research is on connecting the politics of identity as a result of colonial legacy in Asia with specific theological conversations, such as the idea of liminal identity with decolonial pneumatology, and Asian food with the Eucharist from a decolonial perspective. His works always intersect theology with multiple disciplines, such as anthropology, postcolonial, races, sex and genders, and religions. His forthcoming book Dishoming Space: Toward an Embodied Decolonial Pneumatology (Fortress Academic) will focus on the question of identity as well as postcolonial/decolonial theology.

His teaching area is systematic/constructive theology and church history in dialogue with postcolonial/decolonial studies. He also has wider interests in race studies, theology of religions, pneumatology, anthropology, as well as in online education. He was involved in ecumenical ecclesial activities, including interreligious conferences.

He is a member of the Presbyterian Church in Indonesia as well as of the PCUSA when he was in the US. He was also the chair of the Association of Indonesian Theologians from 2014 to 2022. He also loves music and enjoys art!

University Appointments

Director of Theology and Church History (Uniting College for Leadership and Theology)