News & Events
The Religious Heritage of Rights Talk: A Symposium
March 31, 2008
Calvin College hosted a symposium with two internationally-acclaimed scholars who have a very different story to tell about religion and human rights.
John Witte, Jr.
Robitscher Professor of Law and Director of the Center for the Study of Law and Religion at Emory University,
will discuss
the roots and origins of a modern account of human rights in early modern Calvinism.
Nicholas Wolterstorff
Noah Porter Professor of Philosophical Theology Emeritus at Yale, will dig back even further, arguing that modern intuitions about rights and justice are indebted to the Hebrew and Christian scriptures--and cannot be sustained by a wholly secular ethos.
March 31
7:00 PM
Commons Lecture Hall
*refreshments will be served
Cosponsored by: Service-Learning Center, Sociology and Social Work Department, and Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship
Symposium -- Quicktime Movie »
CCCS Hour -- March 4, 2008
Reading the Scripture with our Foremothers
Dr. Marion Taylor
Women have been thoughtful readers of scripture throughout the ages, yet the history of interpretation has not included their voices. Dr. Marion Taylor, Prof. of Old Testament at Wycliffe College, Toronto School of Theology, will introduce us to the riches that are discovered when we seek to uncover these forgotten writings. Authors such as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Christina Rossetti, Josephine Butler, Grace Aquilar and many others have much to teach us. Prof. Taylor has co-edited an anthology of women's interpretations of scripture, "Let Her Speak for Herself: Women Writing on Women in Genesis," (2006), and is working on a second volume in the series.
We will also celebrate the recent publication of Recovering Nineteenth-Century Women Interpreters of the Bible (2007), a co-edited volume by
Dr. Marion Taylor and Dr. Christiana de Groot (Religion Department).
March 4
3:30 PM
Commons Lecture Hall
Sponsored by: Gender Studies, Religion Department, and the Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship
Disability Enabling Theology -- February 15, 2008
Professor Amos Yong, associate research professor at Regent University School of Divinity in Virginia Beach, VA, gave the following lecture at Calving College:
Disability Enabling Theology: Reforming Christian Beliefs--Transforming Christian Practices
- a new theology for people with disabilities
- a new theology informed by the experiences of people with disabilities
Friday
February 15
8:00 PM
Meeter Center Lecture Hall
CCCS Hour Lecture Schedule -- Fall 2007
John Calvin Rediscovered:
The Impact of His Social and Economic Thought
James Bratt (History) will be discussed his new book that he co-edited with Edward Dommen (United Nations & World Council of Churches), John Calvin Rediscovered: The Impact of His Social and Economic Thought (Westminster/John Knox Press, 2007).
November 14
3:30 PM
Commons Lecture Hall
Sponsored by: The Calvin Center for Christian Scholarship, the Department of History, and the H. Henry Meeter Center for Calvin Studies.
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