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2013 Jellema Lectures
April 17-18, 2013
The Human Place in the World
Dr. Norman Wirzba (Duke Divinity School)
- Idolizing Nature: The Way of Destruction
Wednesday, April 17, 2013, 3:30 p.m.
Location TBA
- Seeing Creation: The Way of Love
Thursday, April 18, 2012, 3:30 p.m.
Location TBA
About the Lecturer: Norman Wirzba is Research Professor of Theology, Ecology, and Rural Life at Duke Divinity School and Research Professor in Duke’s Nicholas School of the Environment. He is the author of Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating, The Paradise of God: Renewing Religion in an Ecological Age, Living the Sabbath, and most recently (with Fred Bahnson) Making Peace with the Land: God’s Call to Reconcile with Creation. He is Series Editor of “Culture of the Land,” a book series on the new agrarianism being published by the University Press of Kentucky. Wirzba has also been active as a co-founding Executive Committee member of the Society for Continental Philosophy and Theology, a scholarly society devoted to research at the intersections of theology and philosophy. In his teaching and research Wirzba pursues questions that open our thinking to what it means to be a human creature living in God’s creation. He has lectured widely across the United States, Canada, and Great Britain.
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