March 31, 2011

NICHOLAS WOLTERSTORFF

Yale University

Nicholas Wolterstorff is Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology at Yale University. After concentrating on metaphysics at the beginning of his career (On Universals), he spent a good many years working primarily on aesthetics and philosophy of art (Works and Worlds of Art, and Art In Action). In more recent years, he has been concentrating on epistemology (John Locke and the Ethics of Belief, and the just published, Thomas Reid and the Story of Epistemology), on philosophy of religion (Divine Discourse, and, with Alvin Plantinga, Faith and Rationality), and political philosophy (Until Justice and Peace Embrace, and, with Robert Audi, Religion in the Public Square). He has been president of the American Philosophical Association (Central Division), and of the Society of Christian Philosophers. He regularly teaches lecture courses in philosophy of religion and aesthetics, and seminars in epistemology, hermeneutics, and philosophy of religion. Professor Worlterstorff received his B.A. from Calvin College in 1953 and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University in 1956.

PAST FAITH, LAW & CULTURE PROGRAMS

February 3, 2011

DAVID BENTLEY HART

David Bentley Hart, Ph.D., is a modern Orthodox theologian whose writing focuses mainly on humanities subjects, especially aesthetics. Dr. Hart has been published in various periodicals, including Pro Ecclesia, The Scottish Journal of Theology, First Things, and The New Criterion. He has taught at the University of Virginia, the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Duke Divinity School, and Loyola College in Baltimore, and his specialties are philosophical theology and patristics. He has taught at the University of Virginia, the University of St. Thomas (Minnesota), Duke Divinity School, and Loyola College in Maryland. He was most recently a visiting professor at Providence College, having also previously held the Robert J. Randall Chair in Christian Culture there. He completed his divinity school training at the University of Cambridge and his graduate training at the University of Virginia.

October 27, 2010

MIRSOLAV VOLF

Yale Divinity School

Professor Volf is Henry B. Wright Professor of Theology at Yale University Divinity School and Director of the Yale Center for Faith and Culture. His recent books include Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace (2006), Archbishop of Canterbury Lenten book for 2006; Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness, and Reconciliation (1996), a winner of the 2002 Grawemeyer Award; and After Our Likeness: The Church as the Image of the Trinity (1998), winner of the Christianity Today book award. A member of the Episcopal Church in the U.S.A. and the Evangelical Church in Croatia, Professor Volf was involved in international ecumenical dialogues (for instance, with the Vatican Council for Promotion of Christian Unity) and interfaith dialogues (most recently in Christian-Muslim dialogue). A native of Croatia, he regularly teaches and lectures in Central and Eastern Europe. He earned his B.A. in Evangelical-Theological Faculty in Zagreb, an M.A. at Fuller Theological Seminary and became of Dr. Theology at University of Tübingen in Tübingen, Germany. 

September 15, 2010

D. STEPHEN LONG

Marquette University

D. Stephen Long is professor of Systematic Theology at Marquette University. Previously he worked at Garrett-Evangelical Theological Seminary, St. Joseph’s University and Duke Divinity School. He is an ordained United Methodist and served churches in Honduras and North Carolina. He has published seven books, Living the Discipline: United Methodist Theological Reflections on War, Civilization, and Holiness (Grand Rapids, Michigan: William B. Eerdmanns, 1992), Tragedy, Tradition, Transformism: The Ethics of Paul Ramsey (Boulder, Oxford: Westview Press, 1993) Divine Economy: Theology and the Market (London and New York, Routledge, 2000) The Goodness of God: Theology, Church and Social Order (Brazos Press, 2001), John Wesley’s Moral Theology: The Quest for God and Goodness (Kingswood, 2005), Calculated Futures (Baylor, 2007),  Theology and Culture (Cascade, 2007), and Speaking of God: Theology, Truth and Language (Eerdmann, 2009).