Lectures
Sixth Annual Capps Lecture:
Albert Jordy Raboteau
Holy Ordinary: Locating the Sacred in Literature and Life
November 4, 2009, 6pm, the Dome Room of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia
Free and open to the public; seating first come/first serve.
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Listen to the Q&A
Listen to the seminar on Thomas Merton and Martin Luther King
Read the article in U.Va. Today.
Dr. Raboteau has taught at Yale, Berkeley, Harvard, and currently is the Henry W. Putnam Professor of Religion at Princeton University. His books include Slave Religion: The 'Invisible Institution' in the Antebellum South and A Sorrowful Joy.
Charles Marsh's Speaking Schedule
Charles Marsh is currently the Ellen Maria Gorrissen Fellow at The American Academy in Berlin and is not arranging any speaking engagements. He will return to Virginia for the Fall Semester. For more information, or to arrange a speaking event in 2011, email livedtheology@virginia.edu
Past Lectures
This page contains information about lectures and seminars that have been hosted by the Project on Lived Theology, including biographies of featured speakers and links to papers presented.
Fifth Annual Capps Lecture:
Donald W. Shriver, Jr.
Honest Patriots: Loving a Country Enough to Remember its Misdeeds
October 15th, 2008, the Dome Room of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Dr. Shriver is a professor, pastor, author and speaker engaged in issues of social ethics. He is president emeritus of Union Theological Seminary in New York City.
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Fourth Annual Capps Lectures:
John de Gruchy
Christian Identity amidst Global Contradictions
Christian Humanism against Fundamentalism & Secularism
Christian Identity amidst Global Contradictions
November 6th, 2007, the Dome Room of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
To listen to this lecture go to the website of Theological Horizons, a co-sponsor of the lectures.
Christian Humanism against Fundamentalism & Secularism
November 7th, 2007, St. Paul's Memorial Church, Charlottesville, Virginia
John de Gruchy is Emeritus Robert Selby Taylor Professor of Christian Studies, University of Cape Town, South Africa; head of the Research Institute on Christianity in South Africa and author of numerous books, including: Reconciliation: Restoring Justice; Dietrich Bonhoeffer: Witness to Jesus Christ and his most recent book, Confessions of a Christian Humanist.
The lectures were co-Sponsored by Theological Horizons, The Project on Lived Theology and the Department of Religious Studies, University of Virginia.
Third Annual Capps Lecture:
Jürgen Moltmann
In God We Trust, In Us God Trusts: On Freedom and Security in a Free World
April 27th, 2005, St. Paul's Memorial Church, Charlottesville, Virginia
Dr. Moltmann is Professor of Theology Emeritus at the University of Tübingen, Germany and author of numerous influential books, including Theology of Hope, The Spirit of Life: A Universal Affirmation, The Trinity and the Kingdom, and Experiences in Theology.
The lecture was part of a three-day institute called " The Spirit of Social Hope", which brought together thirty-five theologians, graduate students, pastors, and community-builders for a three day seminar inspired by the collaborative exchange between SILT participants and our Institute speakers: Jürgen Moltmann and Mark Gornik. Read more about the Spring Institute for Lived Theology. Read the lecture transcript.
Second Annual Capps Lecture:
Wolfgang Huber
Guilt and Reconciliation: Christian Faith in a Violent World
October 8th, 2002, the Dome Room of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Wolfgang Huber is the Bishop of the Evangelical Church of Berlin-Brandenburg, Germany, and Professor at both Humboldt University at Berlin and the University of Heidelberg. He is author of Violence: The Unrelenting Assault on Human Dignity.
For a free printed copy of the lecture, please send an email request to: pltheology@virginia.edu.
God First Loved Us: Reflections on the Theological Grounds of Liberation
April 24th, 2002, Jefferson Hall, University of Virginia,
Charlottesville, Virginia
The project hosted Roberto Goizueta for a presentation on the theological grounds of liberation. Goizueta is currently professor of systematic theology at Boston College. He is the author of a number of articles in liberation theology and on the preferential option for the poor, and his books include: Theology: Expanding the Borders (co-edited with Maria Pilar Aquino, Twenty-Third Publications, 1998) and Caminemos con Jesús: Toward Hispanic/Latino Theology of Accompaniment (Orbis, 1995). Professor Goizueta's current research projects also include theological aesthetics, and Christology in U.S. Latino/a theology.
Mr. Goizueta's paper (48k, pdf): God First Loved Us: Reflections on the Theological Ground of Liberation
Religion and the Civil Rights Movement
February 27th, 2002, Bonhoeffer House,
Charlottesville, Virginia
Former chaplain of Tougaloo College
The project hosted Rev. Ed King at the Bonhoeffer House for an informal discussion with students. Rev. King (chaplain at Tougaloo College, Mississippi, during the height of the civil rights movement) talked about the role of religion in the movement. He also touched on the moral problem of the involvement of children in the non-violent resistance, and the use of prayer and scripture.
Mr. King's paper (336k, pdf): Religion and the Civil Rights Movement
Excluded Neighborhoods
January 24th, 2002, Christ Episcopal Church,
Charlottesville, Virginia
Rev. Mark Gornik,
Pastor in
Sandtown (west Baltimore)
On January 24, the Project on Lived Theology hosted a lecture delivered by Rev. Mark Gornik entitled "Excluded Neighborhoods" held at Christ Episcopal Church in Charlottesville. Drawing from his fifteen years of living and pastoring in the west Baltimore neighborhood of Sandtown, Gornik argued for the necessity of an historical sensibility in the church's attempt to understand and address the concerns of inner city America. An appreciation for the history of a neighborhood like Sandtown helps us rediscover the value of theological categories such as creation, fall, and redemption. Gornik spoke with particular passion on the theme of exclusion, which in practice can foster false narratives of human sociality. An exposure of these false narratives and an embodiment of a Biblical counter-narrative of peace and plenty can restore hope to the lives of the underprivileged, and prophetically propel the state towards a more humane set of social practices.
The event brought together an eclectic mix of scholars, students, and citizens who, in addition to engaging Gornik's Sandtown experience, reflected collectively on the deep relevance of Gornik's themes in downtown Charlottesville.
Mr. Gornik's paper (87k, pdf): Excluded Neighborhoods
Annual Capps Lecture in Christian Theology: Forgiveness, Reconciliation and Justice
February 8th, 2001, the Dome Room of the Rotunda at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia
Miroslav Volf, Professor Systematic Theology, Yale Divinity SchoolMiroslav Volf is the Henry B. Wright Professor of Systematic Theology at the Yale Divinity School and is the author of Exclusion and Embrace: A Theological Exploration of Identity, Otherness and Reconciliation.
Mr. Volf's paper (100k, pdf): Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Justice
Beauty and Justice: Aesthetics in a World of Unjust Ugliness
January 23rd, 2001, Westminster Presbyterian Church, Charlottesville, Virginia
John de Gruchy, Professor of Christian Studies, University of Cape Town, South AfricaJohn de Gruchy is currently the Robert Selby Taylor Professor of Christian Studies at the University of Cape Town, South Africa. He is also the editor for the Journal of Theology and Southern Africa and heads up the Research Institute on Christianity in South Africa. He is the author of a number of books, including the most recent one entitled Christianity and Democracy.
Mr. de Gruchy's Lecture (40.1k, pdf): Holy Beauty: A Reformed Perspective on on Aesthetics within a World of Unjust Ugliness
This lecture was originally delivered at the 2001 Sprunt Lectures at Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education in Richmond, Virginia, and was sponsored by the Institute for Reformed Theology (http://reformedtheology.org) at Union-PSCE. This work will be available in the book: Reformed Theology for the Third Christian Millennium: The 2001 Sprunt Lectures, along with lectures by Nicholas Wolterstorff, Peter Paris, Dawn DeVries and Jan Rohls. The title may be obtained in late spring from Westminster/John Knox Press.