Multicultural
Lectures
MONDAY,
NOVEMBER 12, 7:30 PM
TUESDAY , NOVEMBER 13, 11:00 AM
Bigelow Chapel
Jin S. Kim, senior pastor, Church of All Nations,
Columbia Heights, Minn.
United
Theological Seminary and the Multicultural Student Alliance
host the 11th Annual Multicultural Lectures. Kim’s
topic will be “The Multicultural Church
as a Parable of Reconciliation”
For
more information contact Margaree Levy at 651.255.6118
or mlevy@unitedseminary.edu.
Lectures
are held in the Bigelow
Chapel and are open to the public.
The
goal of the annual Multicultural Lectures is to continue
developing strong, meaningful relationships with communities
outside the cultural mainstream to enhance recruitment,
provide mentoring services, and develop resources.
Speakers
from
past years include Owais Bayunus, Melva Wilson Costen,
Martin Brokenleg, Yvonne Delk, Kosuke Koyama, Charles
Amjad-Ali, Kim Mammedaty, Warren L. Dennis, and Jacqueline
Lewis.
Gustafson
Lectures in Biblical Studies
The
Old Testament and the Modern State: Modes of Resistance
and Renewal
Monday, March 26, 2007
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
Bernard
M. Levinson
Berman Family Chair of Jewish Studies and Hebrew
Bible; Associate Professor of Classical and Near Eastern
Studies and of Law, Director of Undergraduate studies
for the Center for Jewish Studies
University of Minnesota
 Bernard
Levinson received his B.A. degree in English
and Intellectual History with First Class Honors in
1974 from York University in Toronto. He earned a M.A.
degree in Religious Studies from McMaster University
in Hamilton, Ontario, in 1978 and a Ph.D. in Near Eastern
and Judaic Studies from Brandeis University in 1991.
He was a Visiting Scholar at the School of Theology,
Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz/Germany (92-93)
and received an appointment in 1997 to the Institute
for Advanced Study (Princeton), School of Social Science.
His
research focuses on Hebrew Bible and ancient Near Eastern
studies, specializing in biblical and cuneiform law
(particularly the role of the ancient Near East in the
emergence of constitutional thought); Deuteronomy and
the history of interpretation; and literary approaches
to biblical studies. He teaches graduate courses in
"Biblical Law and Jewish Ethics" and "Scripture
and Interpretation in Israelite Religion and Judaism."
He is on the editorial boards of Journal of Biblical
Literature, Zeitschrift für Altorientalische
und Biblische Rechtsgeschichte, and Orientalia
Biblica et Christiana. He presents regularly at
national and international conferences.
The
lectures are free and open to the public. Parking is
free. For more information contact Deb Olsen at 651.255.6168.
The
Gustafson Lectures is an endowed lectureship that brings
to campus an internationally recognized scholar in biblical
studies for the presentation of two original lectures.
The lectureship is made possible by an endowment established
with gifts from Nancy and Andris Baltins, Philip and
Carol Duff, and generous alumni/ae in honor of emeritus
professor Henry A. Gustafson for his contributions to
the academic life of United as a teacher and scholar
of New Testament studies.
Lecturers
have included Krister Stendahl, James Sanders, Mary
Ann Tolbert, Norman K. Gottwald, Sharon Ringe, Katherine
Doob Sakenfeld, Terence Fretheim, John Dominic Crossan,
Calvin J. Roetzel, Cain Hope Felder, Luise Schottroff,
Marvin Sweeney, Erhard S. Gerstenberger, and Dale B.
Martin.
Picard Lectures in Environmental Theology and Ethics
MONDAY, MARCH 31, 2008, 7:30 PM
TUESDAY, APRIL 1, 2008, 11:00 AM
Bigelow Chapel
Christianity’s Ecological Moment:
Bread and Water
Bread
Monday, March 31
Water
Tuesday, April 1
The Rev. Dr. Larry Rasmussen
The Reinhold Niebuhr professor emeritus of social ethics at Union Theological Seminary (New York City), Rasmussen is the author of numerous books and articles including Earth Community, Earth Ethics; Ethics for a Small Planet (co-authored with Daniel Maguire); and Earth Habitat: Eco-Injustice and the Church’s Response (co-edited with Dieter Hessel). Rasmussen is directing a 10-year project on Earth Honoring Christianity at Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu, New Mexico.
The
lectures are free and open to the public. No registration is required. Parking is
free. For more information contact
Deb Olsen at 651.255.6168.
The
Picard Lectures in Environmental Theology and Ethics
are supported by an endowment made possible through
the generosity of United alumnus The Rev. Frank Picard
and members of the Picard family. The purpose of the
lectureship is to explore questions and issues concerning
the state of the creation from theological and ethical
perspectives. The lectureship seeks to raise questions
such as the relation between our spiritual life and
the state of the natural world and the response of religious
leadership to the decline of the planet. In establishing
the endowment, the Picard family especially wishes to
remember the deep appreciation for God’s creation
they shared with the late David and Roland Picard.
The
first lecturer was Judith Scoville.
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Nancy
L. Eiesland, associate professor of sociology of
religion, Emory University Candler School of Theology, Atlanta,
Ga., is the author and editor of two books on the sociology
of American religious life, A Particular Place: Exurbanization
and Religious Response in a Southern Town and Contemporary
American Religion: An Ethnographic Reader (with Penny
Edgell Becker). She also publishes in disabilities studies
in religion and has authored The Disabled God: Toward
a Liberatory Theology of Disability and edited (with
Don E. Saliers) Human Disability and the Service of God:
Reassessing Religious Practices. She has written numerous
articles, chapters, and essays and has lectured extensively
in the United States and internationally.