Friday, March 17, 2006
2005-2006/046
Former TIME magazine Theologian of the Year
to give 2006 Thulin Lecture April 6 at the U. of I.
Marjorie Hall Thulin, Class of 1931, to attend event on
the 75th anniversary of her graduation from the U. of I.
URBANA—Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at Duke University Divinity School, will give the Annual Marjorie Hall Thulin Lecture on Religion and Contemporary Culture at the Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory, Urbana, on Thursday, April 6, at 8 p.m.
His talk, “Sacrificing the Sacrifices of War,” is free and open to the public.
Hauerwas, who is also appointed at Duke Law School, was named "America's Best Theologian" in 2001, by TIME magazine.
The speaker’s books include "A Community of Character," "The Peaceable Kingdom," "With the Grain of the Universe," and "Performing the Faith: Bonhoeffer and the Practice of Nonviolence."
Hauerwas’ work is extremely influential in theology, ethics, political theory, and religious thought in a general sense. His theology emphasizes the role of the Church and he is perhaps the best known defender of Christian pacifism alive today.
Marjorie Hall Thulin, for whom the annual lecture is named, is a 1931 graduate of the University of Illinois. She enjoyed a successful career in advertising. Mrs. Thulin, who plans to attend this year’s lecture, also published poetry and children's literature and edited a book on the history of Glencoe, Ill.
Mrs. Thulin's desire for students to understand how religion grows and functions in a complex society, especially Christianity in American society, led her to endow a fund establishing the Marjorie Hall Thulin Scholar of Religion and Contemporary Culture.
Through this endowment, each year an internationally known scholar of religion and contemporary culture is resident on the Champaign-Urbana campus for several days.
A reception in the Spurlock Auditorium will follow the lecture.
For more information, contact Robert McKim, Director of the Program for the Study of Religion and Professor of Religious Studies and of Philosophy at the U. of I., at 217-244-5832, or rmckim@uiuc.edu. |
