Erin Lothes

Visiting Scholar

Dr. Erin Lothes is a theologian who researches energy ethics and the faith-based environmental movement. She is the senior manager of the Laudato Si’ Animators Program with the Laudato Si’ Movement (formerly the Global Catholic Climate Movement).  

Erin is author of “Inspired Sustainability: Planting Seeds for Action” (Orbis, 2016) and “The Paradox of Christian Sacrifice: The Loss of Self, the Gift of Self” (Herder and Herder, 2007). She is lead author of “Catholic Moral Traditions and Energy Ethics for the Twenty-First Century” in the Journal of Moral Theology (2016)  and author of other energy ethics essays and articles on faith-based environmentalism.

Erin has participated in the activism of the interfaith environmental and divestment movement since 2003. She holds a Ph.D. in systematic theology from Fordham, a master’s in theology from Boston College, and an A.B. in English from Princeton. She served as an Earth Institute Fellow at Columbia researching environmental advocacy at diverse American congregations