How Should We See Race?

Willie Jennings
Associate Professor of Theology and Black Church Studies, Duke Divinity School

April 15, 2015
Grawemeyer Award in Religion Lecture

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A Theology of Hopelessness

Miguel De La Torre

Professor of Social Ethics and Latino/a Studies, Iliff School of Theology

April 14, 2015
Festival of Theology
Caldwell Lecture

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Beyond the Impasse: Towards a Breakthrough in Theology of Religion

S. Wesley Ariarajah
Professor of Ecumenical Theology at Drew University
Visiting Luce Professor at Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary

April 7, 2014
Festival of Theology & Reunion

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The Hospitality of Receiving: Rethinking Mission and Conversion in an Interreligious Age

John Thatamanil
Associate Professor of Theology and World Religions, Union Theological Seminary (New York)

Presler Lecture
October 20, 2011

Thatamanil believes that “tying together diverse interests is a basic commitment to a deeply metaphysical form of philosophical theology which he takes to be essential for any Christian theology that seeks to be in conversation with non-Christian religious traditions.” Listen to the lecture.

The Point of Exegesis is Exegeting Life

Luke Timothy Johnson

Winner of the 2011 Grawemeyer Award in Religion
Robert W. Woodruff Professor of New Testament and Christian Origins at the Candler School of Theology at Emory University

Classroom presentation
April 12, 2011

If we approach the New Testament books the way they approach us we must consider four separate yet distinct elements: the anthropological, the historical, the literary, and the religious. Failure to consider even one diminishes understanding of the message of the New Testament. Listen to the presentation.