Pfautch Lectures

2009 Pfautch Lectures 

Environmental Ethics—for God's Sake!

How Practical Stategies and Theology Intersect 

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October 19 Lecture

The Ecology of Grace: Why Protecting Biodiversity Matters for Friendship with God

October 20 Lecture

Neighborhood Ethics: Building Just and Sustainable Communities

Willis Jenkins, Ph.D., Yale University

Author of “Ecologies of Grace:
Environmental Ethics and Christian Theology”
2009 Templeton Book Award for Theological Promise

 His research focuses on environmental ethics, religion and sustainable development, and moral theologies. He has taught at the University of Virginia and at a rural campus of Uganda Christian University. Professor Jenkins has significant international experience in community development initiatives, was co-founder of the Episcopal Young Adult Service Corps, and served on the Episcopal Church’s Standing Commission on World Mission (2000 to 2006). He has published articles in the Journal of Religion, Environmental Ethics, Anglican Theological Review, Worldviews: Environment, Culture, Religion, and the Journal of Lutheran Ethics. His reflections and reviews have appeared in publications including
The Witness and The Christian Century.  
 

2010 Pfautch Lectures

October 17 & 18

Amy Jill Levine, Ph.D.

E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter
Professor of New Testament
Vanderbilt University
B.A. Smith College
M.A., Ph.D. Duke University

 Amy-Jill Levine is E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School, Department of Religious Studies, and Graduate Department of Religion. Holding a B.A. from Smith College, an M.A. and Ph.D. from Duke University, and an honorary Doctor of Ministry from the University  of Richmond, Levine has been awarded grants from the Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the American Council of Learned Societies. She has held office in the Society of Biblical Literature, the Catholic Biblical Association, and the Association for Jewish Studies. Her most recent publications include The Misunderstood Jew: The Church and the Scandal of the Jewish Jesus (HarperSanFrancisco, 2006), the edited collection, The Historical Jesus in Context (Princeton University Press, 2006) and the fourteen-volume series, Feminist Companions to the New Testament and Early Christian Writings (Continuum). She has recorded “Introduction to the Old Testament,” “Great Figures of the Old Testament,” and “Great Figures of the New Testament” for the Teaching Company. A self-described “Yankee Jewish feminist who teaches in a predominantly Protestant divinity school in the buckle of the Bible Belt,” Levine combines historical-critical rigor, literary-critical sensitivity, and a frequent dash of humor with a commitment to eliminating anti-Jewish, sexist, and homophobic theologies.

 PAST LECTURES

2008 Pfautch Lecture

Building the Peaceable Society:

Racial Reconciliation in the City

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October 20 Lecture - The Marks of a Reconciled Community - I

October 21 Lecture - The Marks of a Reconciled Community - II 

The Rev. Marvin A. McMickle, Ph.D.

Senior Pastor, Antioch Baptist Church | Cleveland, Ohio

M.Div, Union Theological Seminary | New York

D.Min., Princeton Theological Seminary

Ph.D., Case Western University