Faith Seeking Understanding Lecture Series
A listing of upcoming, present and past events of the Faith Seeking Understanding lecture series.
Some lectures are available under Faith Seeking Understanding Lecture Series at Gordon College's iTunes U site and may also be accessed with the links provided below. (If you need iTunes, click for a free download.)
02.16.2012 - Thursday 4:00 PM — 6:00 PM
Human Evolution and Christian Ethics
Dr. Stephen Pope, Professor of Theology, Boston College will speak on February 16 at 4:30 p.m. in th Ken Olsen Science Center, MacDonald Auditorium.
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Stephen J. Pope received his Ph.D. in theological ethics from the University of Chicago in 1988. He teaches courses on social ethics and theological ethics. He has written "The Evolution of Altruism and the Ordering of Love" (Georgetown, 1994) and "Human Evolution and Christian Ethics" (Cambridge, 2007), and he has edited "Essays on the Ethics of St. Thomas Aquinas" (Georgetown, 2001).
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03.06.2012 - Tuesday 4:00 PM — 5:30 PM
The Language of Science and Faith
Dr. Karl Giberson will give the 2012 CRUM Lecture in the Ken Olsen Science Center on Tuesday, March 6
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Karl Giberson is an internationally known science-and-religion scholar, speaker, and writer. He has lectured at the Vatican, Oxford University, London’s Thomas Moore Institute, the Ettore Majorana center in Sicily, the Venice Institute of Arts and Letters, the University of Navarre in Spain and at many American venues, including MIT, Brigham Young, Xavier, Stonehill, Wheaton, Gordon College, the Harvard Club of New York and others.
His books have been translated into Spanish, Polish, and Italian and he has been featured in magazines from Spain and Brazil, as well as many American publications, including Salon.com, the Boston Globe and the Boston Phoenix. He has appeared on the Milton Rosenberg show and other radio programs and has been featured in the New York Times “bloggingheads” video series with Robert Wright as well as WBZ’s “Higher Ground” program.
This event is open to the public free of charge. For more information contact Debbie Drost at debbie.drost@gordon.edu or 978.867.4365.
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10.03.2012 — 10.06.2012 8:00 AM — 10:00 PM
Conference on Faith and History Comes to Gordon CollegeGordon College will host the 28th Biennial Fall Conference in 2012 on Faith and History
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October 3–6, 2012:
The Conference on Faith and History is a community of scholars exploring the relationship between Christian faith and history. We welcome members from a variety of Christian traditions around the world. We also seek to learn from scholars outside the Christian tradition. Our primary goal is to encourage excellence in the theory and practice of history from the perspective of historic Christianity.
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PRESENT AND PAST EVENTS
2011-2012 Series
September 22–23, 2011 | NIGEL GOODWIN
Executive Director, Genesis Arts Trust
"Art, Faith and Culture"
November 3–4, 2011 | SCOT MCKNIGHT
Karl A. Olsson Professor in Religious Studies, North Park University
“The Gospel Jesus and the Apostles Preached”
November 30, 2011 | DEBATE: IS FREE ENTERPRISE MORAL?
Arthur Brooks: President, American Enterprise Institute
Jim Wallis: President and CEO, Sojourners
December 1–2, 2011 | GIDEON STRAUSS
President, Center for Public Justice
“The Welfare State Ideal and the Public Debt Reality”
February 2–3, 2012 | BRAD WRIGHT
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Connecticut
“The Media and Christianity”
February 16, 2012 | STEPHEN POPE
Professor of Theology, Boston College
“Human Evolution and Christian Ethics”
March 1–2, 2012 | KARL GIBERSON
Physicist and Author
“The Language of Science and Faith”
April 26, 2012 | CAROL ZALESKI
Professor of World Religions, Smith College
“The World to Come: The Afterlife in Christian Thought”
May 31–June 3, 2012 | CHRISTIANS IN POLITICAL SCIENCE: A BIENNIAL CONFERENCE
Keynote by D. Michael Lindsay
President, Gordon College
2010–2011 Series
September 9–10, 2010 | JODY HASSETT SANCHEZ
President, Pointy Shoe Productions
"Justice and the Global Slave Trade"September 16, 2010 | GENZO YAMAMOTO
Assistant Professor of History, Wheaton College
"Western Modernity and its Global Discontents"September 30, 2010 | JAMES DAVISON HUNTER
LaBrosse-Levinson Distinguished Professor of Religion, Culture and Social Theory, University of Virginia
"To Change the World"October 21–22, 2010 | Post-Colonialism and Christianity
Mabiala Kenzo: Professor of Theology, Ambrose University College and Seminary
Brian McLaren: Author and pastorNovember 11, 2010 | Theodicy, God and Suffering
Dinesh D'Souza: Author and former White House policy analyst
Bart Ehrman: James A. Gray Distinguished Professor of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel HillWatch on YouTube
November 18-19, 2010 | JENNIFER ROBACK MORSE
Founder and President, Ruth Institute
"Sexual Liberation and the Urban Poor"Watch on YouTube
February 3-4, 2011 | RALPH WOOD
Professor of Theology and Literature, Baylor University
"Flannery O'Connor and the Comedy of Christian Formation"Watch on YouTube: Flannery O'Connor | Tolkein
February 7, 2011 | TODD JOHNSON
Director, Center for the Study of Global Christianity, Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary
"World Christianity, 1910-2010"Watch on YouTube
April 11, 2011 | ALAN JACOBS
Professor of English, Wheaton College
"The Future of the Book"
2009–2010 Series
August 26, 2009 | KARIN COONROD
Lecturer, Yale University and Yale School of Drama, and Artistic Director, Compagnia de' Colombari
"Greek Chorus"October 1-2, 2009 | The Scandal of the Evangelical Mind, Fifteen Years Later
Mark Noll, Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History, University of Notre DameWatch on YouTube
October 22, 2009 | RABBI MICHAEL SAMUEL
Rabbi, Tri-City Jewish Center
"Jews, Christians and Modern Science"November 9, 2009 | PETER BERGER
Professor Emeritus of Religion, Sociology and Theology, Boston University
"Religious America, Secular Europe"Watch on iTunesU | Watch on YouTube
January 25, 2010 | MATHEW SCHMALZ
Associate Professor of Religious Studies, College of the Holy Cross
"Understanding Mormonism"Watch on iTunesU | Watch on YouTube
March 23, 2010 | ANDREW BACEVICH
Professor of International Relations and History, Boston University
"Reinhold Niebuhr and American Foreign Policy"Watch / listen on iTunesU | Watch on YouTube
March 26, 2009 | ANDY CROUCH
Senior Editor, Christianity Today International
"Culture Making: Recovering Our Creative Calling"April 16, 2010 | Imago Dei: Human Dignity in Ecumenical Perspective
JOHN BEHR
Dean and Professor of Patristics, St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary
"The Promise of the Image"Watch on iTunesU | Watch on YouTube
RUSSELL HITTINGER
William K. Warren Professor of Catholic Studies and Research Professor of Law, University of Tulsa
"Social Image and Likeness: A Disputed Issue in Catholic Theology"C. BEN MITCHELL
Graves Professor of Moral Philosophy, Union University
“The Audacity of Imago Dei: The Legacy and Uncertain Future of Human Dignity”
2008–2009 Series
August 28, 2008 | AHMET KURU
Assistant Director, Center for the Study of Democracy, Toleration, and Religion, Columbia University
"Western Secularism and the Middle East"listen on iTunesU
September 15, 2008 | WENDY MURRAY
Author, A Mended and Broken Heart: The Life and Love of Francis of Assisi
"St. Francis and Evangelicals"September 18–19, 2008 | WILFRED MCCLAY
SunTrust Bank Chair of Excellence in Humanities, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
"Revisiting the Idea of Progress: Butterfield, Dawson, and Niebuhr"September 27, 2008 | FRANCIS COLLINS
Director, National Human Genome Research Institute
"Genomics and the Human Condition"October 2–3, 2008 | AMY SHERMAN
Senior Fellow, Sagamore Institute for Policy Research
"Poverty and the Stewardship of Power"October 22-24 | OS GUINNESS
Author, The Case for Civility: And Why Our Future Depends on it
"On Globalization"Feb 6, 2009 | DINESH D'SOUZA
Author, What's So Great about Christianity?
"Islam, Christianity, and the War on Terror"Feb 19–20, 2009 | WILLIAM EDGAR
Professor of Apologetics, Westminster Theological Seminary
"The Threat of Culture"March 19–20, 2009 | FREDERICA MATHEWES-GREEN
Author, The Illumined Heart: The Ancient Christian Path of Transformation
"Orthodoxy and Evangelical Renewal"April 16, 2009 | J. BUDZISZEWSKI
Professor of Political Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin
"Natural Law and Politics"
2007–2008 Series
September 14, 2007 | DAVID AIKMAN
Former Senior Correspondent, Time Magazine Associate Professor of History and Writer in Residence, Patrick Henry College
"Jesus in Beijing"October 1, 2007 | DAVID BLANKENHORN
Founder and President of the Institute for American Values
"The Future of Marriage"October 5, 2007 | CHRISTIAN SMITH
William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology, University of Notre Dame
"Soul Searching"November 2, 2007 | ANN BEZZERIDES
Director of Vocation and Ministry, Hellenic College
"Eastern Orthodoxy and Christian Vocation"November 5, 2007 | TIMOTHY GEORGE
Dean and Professor of Divinity, Beeson Divinity School
"American Evangelicalism and Christian Unity"listen on iTunesU
January 31–February 1, 2008 | MAKOTO FUJIMURA
Founder and President, International Arts Movement
"The Creative Age in the Church"listen on iTunesU
February 14–15, 2008 | DALLAS WILLARD
Professor of Philosophy, University of Southern California
"Faith, Virtue, and Knowledge"
2006–2007 Series
September 25, 2006 | Evangelicalism, Catholicism and the Future of Christian Learning
Mark Noll, Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History, University of Notre Dame
James Turner, Reverend John J. Cavanaugh C.S.C. Professor of Humanities, University of Notre DameSeptember 28–29, 2006 | CORNEL WEST
Class of 1943 University Professor of Religion, Princeton University
"Christ in Contemporary Cultures: A Cultural Studies Conference"November 5–6, 2006 | IMAM YAHYA HENDI
Muslim Chaplain, Georgetown University
"A Trialogue Among the Abrahamic Faiths"November 14, 2006 | DANIEL MAHONEY
Professor of Politics, Assumption College
"Alexander Solzhenitsyn's Moral Vision"December 1, 2006 | BEVERLY ROBERTS GAVENTA
Helen H.P. Manson Professor of New Testament, Princeton Theological Seminary
"Highly Favored: A Symposium on Mary across Christian Traditions"February 27, 2007 | WILLIAM STUNTZ
Henry J. Friendly Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
"Culture Wars and Legal Wars"March 21, 2007 | TRACY KIDDER
Author and Pulitzer Prize winner
"Mountains Beyond Mountains"March 26, 2007 | JAMES KENNEDY
Professor of Contemporary History, Free University of Amsterdam
"Islam, Toleration, and the Future of Europe"
2005–2006 Series
September 16, 2005 | KENNETH ELZINGA
Robert C. Taylor Professor of Economics, University of Virginia
"Called to the Marketplace"October 3, 2005 | THOMAS KIDD
Assistant Professor of History, Baylor University
"Islam in American Protestant Thought"October 10-11, 2005 | JEANNE HEFFERNAN
Assistant Professor of Humanities, Villanova University
"What Does It Mean to Be Free? Reflections on Citizenship"October 20-21, 2005 | PEGGY WEHMEYER
World Vision Reporter/Former ABC Religion Correpsondant
"The Global Church through the Eyes of a Journalist"November 15-16, 2005 | DEBRA RIENSTRA
Associate Professor of English, Calvin Collge
"Pregnant with Meaning: Exploring a Theology of the Vocation of Motherhood"March 23-24, 2006 | JOHN E. HARE
Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology, Yale University
"Ethics with/without God"April 5, 2006 | SUSANNAH HESCHEL
Eli Black Associate Professor of Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College
"My Father Abraham: Reflections on the Life and Thoughts of Abraham Joshua Heschel"
2004–2005 Series
October 4, 2004 | GILBERT MEILAENDER
Professor of Theology and Phyllis & Richard Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics, Valparaiso University
"Unbinding Prometheus: the Promises and Pitfalls of Biotechnology"November 4, 2004 | JOHN WILSON
Editor, Books & CultureMarch 18, 2005 | NICHOLAS WOLTERSTORFF
Professor Emeritus Philosophy, Yale
"How My Mind has Changed: Thoughts on Christian Learning"March 31-April 1, 2005 | PHILIP JENKINS
Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Religious Studies, Pennsylvania State University
"Global Christianity and the Future of Liberal Arts Education"April 4-6, 2005 | JEREMY BEGBIE
Thomas A. Langford Research Professor, Duke Divinity School
"Thinking Theologically Through the Arts"