Lawrence Troster
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Rabbi Lawrence Troster is the Jewish Chaplain of Bard College, where he is an associate of the college's Institute of Advanced Theology. Troster also serves as director of the fellowship program and rabbinic scholar in residence at GreenFaith, an interfaith environmental coalition in New Jersey. He is a rabbinic fellow for the Coalition on the Environment and Jewish Life, and serves as a co-chair of the Interfaith Partnership for the Environment of the United Nations Environment Program.
A graduate of Jewish Theological Seminary, he is the author of theological works, as well as several publications on environmentalism and bioethics. He is a contributor to Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinism, a collection of essays.
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- Trosler, Lawrence. "From Apologetics to New Spirituality: Trends in Jewish Environmental Theology," COEJL, November, 2004.
- Trosler, Lawrence. "Hans Jonas and the Concept of God after the Holocaust," Conservative Judaism (Volume 55:4, Summer 2003)
- Trosler, Lawrence. "Environmental Ethics," chapter in Living a Jewish Life Vol. II: Ethics (publication forthcoming).
- Trosler, Lawrence. "The Order of Creation and the Emerging God: Evolution and Divine Action in the Natural World." from Geoffrey Cantor and Marc Swetlitz (editors). Jewish Tradition and the Challenge of Darwinism. University Of Chicago Press (2006). ISBN: 9780226092768
