Meets on the campus of the University of Chicago
The Reynolds Club - South Lounge – 2nd floor
Corner of 57th and University
12:10 – 1:10 p.m.
Lunch is served.
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Winter Quarter, 2010
Theology of Creation
in the Modern Research University
Jan 12 - Willemien Otten - Creation and Negation: Towards a Theology of Nature
Willemien Otten is professor of Church history and Christian thought in the Divinity School, specializing in the medieval period and the early Christian theological tradition. Her main interest is how this tradition was and is woven into the ongoing tradition of the liberal arts. Currently, she is investigating links between Ralph Waldo Emereson and the earlier writers on nature and creation.
http://divinity.uchicago.edu/faculty/otten.shtml
Jan 19 - Peter Casarella - Christ and Creation Revisited
Peter Casarella is professor of Catholic Studies at DePaul, and recently appointed Director of their Center for World Catholicism and Intercultural Theology. His graduate training includes study of medieval theology, as well as contemporary Catholic theology with a special interest in Latin American thought. Professor Casarella has been involved in several dialogues between Catholics and Protestants.
http://works.bepress.com/petercasarella/
Jan 26 - Jeffrey Barbeau - Romantic Imagination, Biblical Language, and the Doctrine of Creation
Jeffrey Barbeau is professor of theology at Wheaton College, where he teaches over a wide range of the Christian theological tradition with a special interest in understanding links among the various liberal arts and theology. In his recent work Prof. Barbeau has written on Coleridge’s theology of divine revelation and Wesleyan pneumatology.
http://www.wheaton.edu/Theology/faculty/barbeau/index.html
Feb 2 - Giorgio Ambrosio - Journey to the Center of Matter
Giorgio Ambrosio is a research scientist at the Fermi Lab, working on magnet technology for particle accelerators there and at CERN in Switzerland.
http://www.fnal.gov/pub/today/LARPMagnet121609.html
He is director of the U.S. branch of Euresis, an association of scientists promoting discussion of science and faith,
http://www.euresis.org/en/TheAssociation.aspx
and member of Crossroads, a Roman Catholic multidisciplinary project promoting conversation between Christian faith and academics, the arts and civic life, started in New York City and now with a branch in Chicago.
http://www.crossroadsculturalcenter.org/home/
Feb 9 - Ted Hiebert - The Human Vocation: Creation's Master or Creation's Servant?
Ted Hiebert is professor of Old Testament at McCormick Theological Seminary in Hyde Park, where he teaches on Genesis, Isaiah, Job, Biblical perspectives on nature, and Biblical perspectives on multi-culturalism. His research has focused on the Pentatuch and the Prophets, & is currently writing commentaries on Genesis and Joel. He will have just returned from Egypt and a course on Egypt and the Bible when he speaks.
http://mccormick.edu/instructor/theodore-hiebert
Feb 16 - Joseph Lam – The Biblical Creation in Its Ancient Near Eastern Context
Joseph Lam has an M.Div. from Regent College, Vancouver, is a graduate student in northwest Semitic languages at the Oriental Institute, and has previously taught courses on Hebrew and Akkadian languages. Joseph became pastor of Hyde Park Alliance Church in 2008.
http://www.hydeparkalliance.org/about/hpac_pastor.htm
Feb 23 - David Helm - Creation and the Question of Meaning
David Helm is one of the founding pastors of Holy Trinity Church in Hyde Park, moving here when he did so from College Church Wheaton. David is chairman of the Charles Simeon Trust, a ministry for training pastors in expository preaching. He has written preaching commentaries on I & II Peter and Jude, as well The Genesis Factor and a children’s book, The Big Picture Story Bible.
http://www.htcchicago.org/ministry-training-/
