CIRCA News from the University of Chicago Divinity School

THE GREATEST SATIRE IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, JONATHAN SWIFT’S GULLIVER’S Travels, famously concludes with a final voyage in which Lemuel Gulliver travels to “the land of the Houhynhymns,” a community consisting of two classes: an oligarchy of horses who rule, and a rebellious servant class of small, ape-like beings the horses have designated as “yahoos.” Swift twists the voyage ironically at two moments. First, Gulliver becomes utterly loyal to and admiring of the Houhynhymns and their rationally ordered lives and society, achieve Gulliver’s momentary insight and but then is banished by them because they eloquence, and sustain it over time. The ready- conclude that he is a yahoo with a brain, and to-hand answer is that religions in their thus could lead a rebellion and overturn their theories and their practices are purposeful, social order. The distraught Gulliver complies Letter even supervisory. Creed and code combine and eventually returns home to England, but to encourage focus on what is true and good once there he literally becomes a “neigh sayer,” and beautiful. The aim is thus to establish shunning what we would call civil society for conditions in which the appeal of a Lincoln the company of horses in a barn, with whom from the —and the recourse to justice tempered with he passes as much time as he can in rational mercy—is at least regularly recalled and conversation. honored. The danger is to become like the How are we to understand Gulliver’s Dean Houhynhymns, whose justice knows no experience with the Houhynhymns, and his mercy and thus is not justice. continued allegiance, and eventual self-ostra- This danger—which we might term cization, despite their rejection of him? Any the danger of ideology, the danger of so answer is of course complex. It does seem emphasizing one aspect of the truth that its clear that Swift wants his reader to reckon remainder is forgotten and the whole thus with the fact that neither the hyperrational perverted—is brilliantly addressed by Swift horses nor the brutely instinctive yahoos in his depiction of the yahoos. Here criticism represent fully realized humanity. It is also and irony become crucial counterpoints to clear that Gulliver, who might represent a purpose and supervision. Swift reveals through combination of them, emphatically allies Gulliver the close connection between devo- himself, and not incidentally his self-under- tion and contempt, even the way in which standing, with the former. Swift does give one feeds upon the other. To avoid Gulliver’s Gulliver one moment of equipoise—one fate we need to avoid this particular, if all too time when he is able to marry reason and human, equation. Swift helps us by under- emotion, head and heart. In it, Gulliver scoring empirically the connections Gulliver appeals the decision to banish him by denies: the yahoo females uninhibitedly suggesting that true justice requires mercy. express their sexual attraction to Gulliver, Swift here renders Gulliver both incisive and and Gulliver himself continually if unwit- eloquent. Yet the moment is both fleeting tingly notes their shared physiognomy. and ineffectual. Creed and code combine To fully grasp what Swift shows in Gulliver Swift’s tale is rarely invoked in discussions to encourage focus on what is we might here again take recourse, but this of religion, but it should be. With regard true and good and beautiful. time contrastively, to Lincoln: Gulliver’s to the Houhynhymns, Gulliver behaves like resolute stigmatization of the yahoos is the a member of what we would call a cult. He The aim is thus to establish opposite of Lincoln’s steadfast refusal to deploys the rituals from those horses when he conditions in which the appeal demonize the Confederacy during the Civil returns to England. Swift thus demonstrates War. Here Swift’s counsel about religion for us the dangers in uncritical adoption of a of a Lincoln—and the recourse would appear to suggest that creed and code tradition. Yet in highlighting Gulliver’s appeal, to justice tempered with mercy must always be modulated by scrupulous be it noted in a moment of extreme duress, —is at least regularly recalled attention to any effort to demonize the that justice be tempered with mercy, Swift “other.” In this sense, civil society and also illustrates for the reader what Abraham and honored. religion can and must be complementary. Lincoln would later term “the better angels Given the rarity of Lincolns — and of Swifts of our nature.” — in our midst, it behooves us to recall their The difficulty for all readers of Swift, This is an index of his art: it compels us to examples as we make the way forward. ❑ particularly for divines who study religion, is think harder than we might otherwise about that Swift leaves us to draw the conclusions. both whether, and if so how, religions can Richard A. Rosengarten, Dean

AUTUMN/WINTER 2007–2008 | NUMBER 28 Faculty News and Notes

Journal of Systematic Theology, Modern Theology, and Scottish Journal of Theology, his fall, the Divinity School welcomes three new full-time and he is currently working on two books: faculty members, two new associated faculty members, and Theology without Gaps: The Meaning, Truth, and Reference of God-talk and The three visiting faculty members to its fold. To access online Recognition of the Spirit: A Constructive T Pneumatology. faculty profiles, which include bibliographies, photographs, and con- Otten Appointed Professor tact information for each faculty member, please see http://divinity of the History of Christianity .uchicago.edu/faculty/index.html and Theology

Willemien Otten Appointments is a scholar of the history of Chris- tianity and Chris- and their relation to ongoing debates about Evans Appointed Assistant tian thought with the place of blacks in the nation. His research Professor of the History a strong focus emphases are the relationship between cul- on the western of Christianity tural representations and social scientific medieval and the understandings of African American religion early Christian Curtis Evans is an American religions histo- and culture, and shifting conceptions of the theological tradition, including the conti- rian. His teaching interests include African nature of religious and intellectual capacity nuity of (Neo) Platonic themes. After her American religion, the intersection of race and as signal traits of humanity and their impact monograph on The Anthropology of Johannes religion in American history, and churches on discussions of African American cultural Scottus Eriugena (Leiden 1991), she researched and the problem of social and political reform. capacities. His current (tentative) research twelfth-century thought. This resulted in her His current book, The Burden of Black Reli- project includes an analysis of liberal Protes- study From Paradise to Paradigm: A Study of gion: Representing, Vindicating, and Uplifting tant theories of childhood religious nurture Twelfth-Century Humanism (Leiden 2004), the Race, forthcoming from Oxford Univer- alongside advice manuals, sermonic mate- which featured, among others, Peter Abelard sity Press, focuses on cultural images and rial, and instructional media on childrearing and ‘Chartrian’ authors like Bernard Silvestris academic interpretations of black religion by African American religious leaders from and Alan of Lille. the late nineteenth to the mid-twentieth Underlying her historical-theological century. work is a structural attempt to see the con- tribution of (early) medieval theologians Hector Appointed Assistant as more than the sum total of ancient and Professor of Theology patristic influences. Instead, she wants to analyze the cultural outlook which allowed Kevin Hector does constructive Christian these influences to become woven into the theology in conversation with contemporary fabric of an encyclopaedic, humanist tradi- philosophy. Hector’s scholarship is animated tion, by which the treatment of theological by three problems: the modern problem of questions is embedded in the broader study relating God, the world, and human persons; of the liberal arts. Pursuing this line of the problem of metaphysics (and the dualistic thought, she is currently researching connec- pictures which underwrite it); and the problem tions between Eriugena and Ralph Waldo of establishing increasingly just social practices. Emerson in their thinking on nature and Hector has published essays in International creation.

2CIRCA Visiting Faculty theological anthropology, eschatology, medieval fessor of Religious Ethics, the Philosophy of theology (including St. Bonaventure and Religion, and Theology and the Margaret E. Edith Blumhofer is Visiting Professor of Nicholas of Cusa), the thought of Hans Urs Burton Distinguished Service Professor of the the History of Christianity at the Divinity von Balthasar, and Hispanic/Latino theology. History of Christianity and Theology. School and Professor of History and Director He has edited or coedited: Christian Spiritu- of the Institute for the Study of American ality and the Culture of Modernity: The Thought New Associate Faculty 1998 Evangelicals at Wheaton College. Her most of Louis Dupré (Eerdmans, ), Cuerpo recent book is Her Heart Can See: The Life de Cristo: The Hispanic Presence in the U.S. Philip V. Bohlman is the Mary Werkman 1998 and Hymns of Fanny J. Crosby. Among her Catholic Church (Crossroad, ), and Distinguished Service Professor of the Human- current projects are two books, Evangelicalism: Cusanus: The Legacy of Learned Ignorance ities and of Music, and of Jewish Studies. An 2007 A Very Short Introduction for Oxford Univer- (Catholic University Press, ) and pub- ethnomusicologist, music and religion form sity Press and A Short History of Pentecostalism lished research articles in various journals. his central subjects, ranging from Jewish for Cambridge University Press. His current research projects include a book music in the modern era to the with the working title “Von Balthasar: The interpretation of music in wor- Frank Burch Brown, the Alexander Camp- Centrifugal Politics of Culture.” After serving ship in North American reli- bell Visiting Professor of Religion and the for fourteen years in the School of Theology gious communities to current Arts, will offer a three-course sequence, one and Religious Studies at The Catholic Univer- ethnographic study of music course per year over the next three years, on sity of America, he is currently full Professor in the Muslim communities of religion and aesthetics. The Frederick Doyle of Catholic Studies at DePaul University. Europe. His writings address Kershner Professor of Religion and the Arts issues in the intersections of music with race, at Christian Theological Seminary (Indiana- New Faculty Titles nationalism, and colonial encounter; the polis), Brown works extensively in the field ontological and ethical dimensions of music; of religious and theological aesthetics, with This past Spring, two Divinity School faculty and social agency of aesthetics and perfor- additional interests in literary theory and in members received new titles. Arnold I. mance. He is also Artistic Director of the the discernment of emotion and meaning Davidson is now the Robert O. Anderson Jewish cabaret ensemble, the New Budapest (communal and personal) in the musical and Distinguished Service Professor in the Depart- Orpheum Society, an ensemble-in-residence visual arts. His wide-rang- ment of Philosophy, the Divinity School, and at the University of Chicago. ing books are Transfigura- the Department of Comparative Literature. tion: Poetic Metaphor and William Schweiker is now the Edward L. Christopher Faraone is the Frank Curtis Religious Belief; The Evolu- Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Springer and Gertrude Melcher Springer tion of Darwin’s Religious Theological Ethics in the Divinity School Professor in the Humanities at the University Views; Religious Aesthetics; and the College. Professor Schweiker is also of Chicago. A member and former chair of and the award-winning the new Director of the Martin Marty Center; the Department of Classics, he teaches and Good Taste, Bad Taste, and please see page 9 for more information. Pro- writes primarily about Greek religion and Christian Taste: Aesthetics in Religious Life. A fessor Schweiker will give a lecture to inau- poetry, and regularly teaches in the core cur- composer with twenty commissioned works gurate his new title in the Winter Quarter; riculum, where he serves as the director of to his credit, he recently fulfilled a commission please watch our website for more details. the Greek Thought and Literature sequence. from the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir. In recent years he has taught in the College’s In addition, Profs. Franklin I. Gamwell and Overseas Programs in Athens, Rome and Paris. Peter Casarella will be Visiting Professor of W. Clark Gilpin are now, respectively, the He also teaches in the Departments of New Theology. His areas of specialization include Shailer Mathews Distinguished Service Pro- Testament and Early Christian Literature.

David Tracy Retires

nternationally renowned theologian and philosopher of religion David Tracy, Andrew books include The Achievement of Bernard Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Distinguished Service Professor of Lonergan (1970); Blessed Rage for Order: 1975 Catholic Studies and Professor of Theology and the Philosophy of Religion in the The New Pluralism in Theology ( ); The I 2006 Analogical Imagination: Christian Theology Divinity School, retired from teaching at the end of Fall Quarter, . and the Culture of Pluralism (1981); Talking about God: A reception in his honor was held on March at John Carroll University from Doing Theology in the Context 1 2007 1976 1977 , , and included talks by his Divinity to , delivering the of Modern Pluralism, with John School colleagues Wendy Doniger, Bernard Tuohy Lectures on “the Prob- Cobb (1983); A Short History of McGinn, and Franklin I. Gamwell. lem of God.” The recipient of the Interpretation of the Bible, 1939 David Tracy was born in in Yonkers, several honorary doctorate with Robert Grant (2d. ed., New York. A noted Roman Catholic teacher, degrees, Prof. Tracy was elected 1984); A Catholic Vision, with scholar, priest, and theologian, he received to the American Academy of Stephen Happel (1984); Plu- his licentiate (1964) and doctorate (1969) at Arts and Sciences in 1982. He rality and Ambiguity (1987); Gregorian University in Rome. From 1967 has lectured in approximately Dialogue with the Other: The to 1969, Prof. Tracy taught at Catholic Uni- forty universities around the Inter-Religious Dialogue (1990); versity of America, his first teaching assign- world. In 1997 he won the and On Naming the Present: ment. He then moved to the University of Faculty Teaching Award at the University God, Hermeneutics, and Church (1994). Prof. Chicago, where he became the first Catholic of Chicago, and in 2000 he delivered the Tracy is currently writing a book on God. priest to be appointed to the Divinity School. prestigious Gifford Lectures under the title The tributes delivered at Prof. Tracy’s In 1985 he was named Distinguished Service “This Side of God.” retirement reception will be published in Professor, and in 1987 he was named Distin- Prof. Tracy taught a wide variety of courses the next issue (Fall 2007) of Criterion. guished Service Professor of Roman Catholic in contemporary theology and philosophy, A conference to honor Prof. Tracy will be Studies. He has served on the university’s including philosophical, systematic, and held Sunday, May 4, to Tuesday, May 6, Committee on the Analysis of Ideas and constructive theology and hermeneutics, 2008, at Swift Hall. Please see page 10 and Methods and on the Committee on Social and courses dealing with issues and persons watch our website for more details. ❑ Thought. He was a fellow, with John Cobb, in religion and modern thought. His many

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Other News

New Sightings Editor Named

Kristen Tobey is the new Managing Editor for Sightings, the Marty Center’s biweekly online editorial. Ms. Tobey comes to Sightings after two years in the Manuscript Editing department at the University of Chicago Press. She received a B.A. from DePaul University and a Master’s Degree from the Divinity School, where she is currently a Ph.D. student in Anthropology and Sociology of Religion. Her research focuses most specifically on the Plowshares, a contemporary Catholic movement; and, more broadly, on self- marginalizing religious groups in both histori- cal and contemporary America, and how Gamwell Delivers Center for Church-State Studies they create and main- Annual Lecture tain outsider identities in the midst of shifting The 24th Annual Lecture at DePaul Univer- State Studies at DePaul University has social circumstances. sity’s Center for Church-State Studies was forged a vital link between secular and Kristen is eager to delivered by Franklin I. Gamwell, the Shailer religious communities in society. The invite international perspectives to Sightings, Mathews Distinguished Service Professor of annual lecture, sponsored since 1983, serves where she looks forward to taking part in the Religious Ethics, the Philosophy of Religion, the Center’s mission to foster continuing ongoing exploration of religion’s presence in and Theology. His lecture, entitled “The dialogue among members of the legal, the public sphere. Question of Democracy,” was delivered on policy-making, and religious constituencies Read more about Sightings online at Thursday, April 26, 2007, at 3:30 p.m. in the of our society. http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/sightings Union League Club (downtown Chicago). Martin E. Marty, the Fairfax M. Cone /index.shtml. For more than twenty-four years, the Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Potential contributors should contact nondenominational Center for Church- presented the lecture in 1995. Kristen at [email protected].

Brekus wins Guggenheim Fellowship

he John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has named Catherine Brekus, Associate Professor of the History of Christianity in the Divinity School, a 2007 TGuggenheim fellow. Professor Brekus, who was selected from among 2,800 U.S. and Canadian applicants, will use her Guggenheim fellowship to complete her book, Sarah Osborn’s World: Popular Christianity in Early America, which explores the rise of evangeli- calism during the eighteenth century through the personal life story of Sarah Osborn.

An evangelical woman who lived in devotional diary, writing for more than Newport, Rhode Island, in the eighteenth thirty years and producing a total of 15,000 century, Osborn kept an extraordinary manuscript pages. More than 1,500 of these pages still survive. Brekus teaches courses on every period of American religious history from the found- ing of the colonies to the present, but she also has a particular interest in early America and the role of women in religious history. She is the author of the award-winning contract with Knopf, she writes, “I hope to Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in write an accessible narrative that will give both America, 1740–1845, which explores the rise historians and educated readers a more sophis- of Protestant female preaching during the ticated understanding of early evangelicalism, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. the history of women’s religious leadership In her forthcoming book, Brekus examines and the legacy of the Enlightenment.” the relationship between the evangelical Brekus, who has already written several movement and the Enlightenment by focus- chapters of Sarah Osborn’s World, plans to ing on the story of Osborn, a schoolteacher use her Guggenheim fellowship to complete who gained a large following in Newport some of her research on the book in as a spiritual leader. Newport, Rhode Island, and to finish Of her goal for the book, which is on the manuscript.

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The programs supported by this grant, our curriculum in the study of Judaism and observed Cynthia Gano Lindner, Director which also complements the Marty Center’s of Ministry Studies and Clinical Faculty for central commitment to cultivating the broad- Preaching and Pastoral Care in the Divinity est possible informed public understanding School, “will make intentional and visible of religion. Especially pertinent and welcome what many of us already enjoy, and value most is the prospect of a set of visiting fellows highly about the community of discourse at whose combined expertise presents the richest the Divinity School. At Chicago, M.Div. possible portrait ‘in depth’ of contemporary and Ph.D. students alike benefit from an Jewish thought and practice.” educational context in which it is possible The Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation to have extended conversations about our of Metropolitan Chicago is the largest not- commitments and our work with professors for-profit social welfare institution in Illinois, and with pastors, with persons who aspire providing resources to 300,000 Chicagoans to careers in the academy and persons who of all faiths and a network of nearly 70 agencies are preparing for leadership in religious and programs that care for people at every communities.” stage of life, regardless of the ability to pay. The Endowment is an Indianapolis-based, Divinity School private philanthropic foundation created in New Director of Receives Lilly “Border 1937 to support the causes of religion, edu- cation and community development. The Field Education and Crossing” Grant Endowment has long had an interest in the Church Relations role and purpose of religion in American life Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded the and strives to create opportunities across Kevin Boyd joined the staff of the Divinity Divinity School at the University of the country to learn more about the subject School as Director of Field Education and Chicago $500,000 for the next three years through research, to encourage the develop- Church Relations as of August 1, 2007. Mr. to support a program that will bring ment of a new generation of ministers, to Boyd is an alumnus of Stetson University and together faculty, ministers, and the Divinity nurture practicing ministers, and to build of the Divinity School’s M.Div. program School’s Master of Divinity (M.Div.) and healthy and vibrant congregations. (2005). For the past several years he has Ph.D. students who are preparing to teach served as Resident Chaplain at Rush Univer- in theological education to address the sity Medical Center, where he was specifically unexamined, but widely-held assumption interested in neurological disorders and how that preparation for ministry and prepara- the loss of memory function impacts the tion for theological education reflect quite developed sense of self. There he also con- different aims and purposes. The monies tinued his interest in medical ethics (organ will support a coordinated program of transplantation conferences, symposia, seminars, teaching and the question opportunities, and a range of engagements of identity) and with churches and their leadership. the interplay W. Clark Gilpin, the Margaret E. Burton between religious Distinguished Service Professor of the History beliefs and medi- of Christianity and cal technology by Theology in the JUF Grant completing Rush’s Divinity School, Graduate Certifi- stressed the impor- The University of Chicago Divinity School cation in Health tance of the Endow- is pleased to announce a grant of $200,000 Care Ethics. He is ment award: “The from the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan endorsed through the Episcopal Church for focused intensity Chicago to support a series of four visiting hospital chaplaincy and is eligible for Board of graduate study professors, one per academic year, to enhance Certification through the Association of presents few ‘ready its curriculum in the study of Judaism. Professional Chaplains. made’ opportunities Richard A. Rosengarten, Dean of the Cynthia Lindner, Director of the M. Div. to step back and Divinity School, said, “the School is immensely program, remarked that “Mr. Boyd brings ask ‘why is this profession important to grateful to Michael Kotzin and the Jewish a rich mixture of gifts to his work in our me, and how do I understand its governing Federation for their initiative in suggesting ministry program: he is grounded in Chicago’s purposes?’” this possibility, which will certainly enhance intellectual heritage, he has been mentored and supervised by excellent pastors and chaplains, and he has refined his own pastoral practice in a context that demands diligent and authentic theological reflection on the practice of ministry. I anticipate that with Kevin’s energetic leadership, we will be able not only to solidify and strengthen the exist- ing field education curriculum, but to develop a more thoroughgoing and coherent approach to students’ practical experience throughout our program.” At the Divinity School Mr. Boyd will be responsible for supervising the placement of second-year M.Div. students in churches, for oversight of the field work program, and for the development of our working relationships with denominational adjudicatories and national bodies.

AUTUMN/WINTER 2007–2008 | 5 Ministry Program Update

Renewing our investment in “public ministry”

hicago’s ministry program has long been known for its insis- tence on public ministry, the recognition that religious life Cand thought shapes and is shaped by its broader context— its “public”—in ways that are sometimes empowering and beneficial to all, and at other times devastating and destructive all around. Our signature claim has new currency in our current global context, as international conflicts are often articulated in religious language, and as religious leaders find themselves and their congregations deeply by a panel of professors and pastors, and a invested in such public concerns as immigration, poverty, public case study reflection/discussion. The second, health and environmental advocacy. “Music in American Religious Experience,” will be held on January 25, 2008 and feature Profs. Phillip Bohlman and Edith Blumhofer. For more information, bookmark our website. A second grant program will help ministry students engage in conversation and reflection on public ministry well beyond the confines of Swift Hall, the city of Chicago, and our U.S. borders. Four “International Ministry Studies grants” will be issued to current M.Div. students each year for the next four

. . . we are uniquely situated to look more closely at what might be gained by a richer and more intentional conversation about our companion professions.

years, thanks to matching monies from the Two new program initiatives at the Divinity teaching partnerships and reflection groups, Carpenter Foundation and the Baptist School will encourage students and staff to all exploring the relationship between the Theological Union. Acknowledging that renew their efforts to engage their various professions of teaching and ministry. At the most of the world’s Christians now live “publics” in dialogue, reflection, and action Divinity School, Ph.D. and M.Div. students in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and over the next three years, as we seek how study side-by-side, sharing a common faculty recognizing our students’ commitment to best to train public theologians for teaching and common coursework, and so we are the global church, these grants will make and ministry in the twenty-first century. uniquely situated to look more closely at what it possible for selected students to travel might be gained by a richer and more inten- abroad for a summer of learning and work- “Border Crossing: Collaborative Theological tional conversation about our companion ing alongside religious leaders and faith Reflection for Ministry,” funded by a generous professions. The project will bring together communities in other cultures. When gift from the Lilly Endowment, will offer a practicing ministers, Divinty School and students return to the Divinity School, three-year cycle of conferences, consultations, seminary faculty, M.Div. and Ph.D. students they will be responsible for offering a pre- in a variety of venues designed to enhance sentation or seminar that will share their the well-informed and deeply-engaged insights with the Swift Hall community. practice of teachers and pastors alike. The While students will be responsible for conferences and consultations will all be open identifying and making arrangements with and accessible to the public: the first of these, their international ministry partners, we “Advocacy in the Pulpit and in the Classroom” would be happy to hear from alumni or will be held at Swift Hall on Wednesday, others with international sites and or per- September 19th from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. sonnel for our consideration. Once again, and will include a keynote address by the Divinity School website includes more Franklin I. Gamwell, the Shailer Mathews detailed information about these grants, Distinguished Service Professor of Religious the application process, and future Ethics, the Philosophy of Religion, and partnerships. ❑ — Cynthia Lindner, Theology in the Divinity School, responses Director, Ministry Program

6CIRCA Divinity Students Association

One of our most successful events has been a quarterly Pub Night, which draws students from diverse areas within the Divinity School to gather and talk about topics in ethics— or religion—or sports— or current events—or just to tell jokes and catch up with our friends.

discussion. Presenting at an Ethics Club event allows students to discuss their work in settings that can be more formal (a Divinity School Ethics Club conference) or more informal and relaxed (noontime meetings). We also hope to continue to have a group of committed n a hot day in late May, the Divinity School Ethics Club met students who will help to plan and arrange events. Being part of a club allows students for lunch in Swift Hall for a presentation on “The Future to meet others (students and faculty), gain of Religious Ethics” with Professor William Schweiker, the experience both with planning academic O events and with presenting work, and club’s advisor. Professor Schweiker discussed trends in the field of maybe have a little fun along the way. ethics and his thoughts on how the study of religious ethics can Questions about the Ethics Club or our events can be directed to the remain relevant, rigorous and challenging in the academy. Students 2007– 08 club president Debra Erickson ([email protected]). — Laura Koepke asked questions and offered their own thoughts on this topic, which was of great interest to those intending to study and teach religious ethics within university, seminary and other academic settings.

in Iraq. We also hosted a noontime meeting with advanced Ph.D. students of ethics to discuss the steps involved in working toward a Ph.D. and to hear some advice on making it through a long and sometimes tiring but rewarding process. The club also enjoys convening for social events! One of our most successful events has been a quarterly Pub Night, which draws students from diverse areas within the Divinity School to gather and talk about topics in ethics—or religion—or sports—or current events—or just to tell jokes and catch up The Ethics Club gives students of ethics and with our friends. Pub Nights are open to all others who are interested a chance to share Divinity School students and faculty. their ideas and their work, review the work Future plans for the club include possible The Divinity Students Association of and ask questions of professors in more conferences on medical ethics during the (DSA) is an organization run by and relaxed and intimate settings than that of 2007– 08 school year and on business ethics for University of Chicago Divinity a formal class, and meet other students inter- in 2008 – 09; a workshop with students from School students. The organization ested in similar topics both for discussion the University of Notre Dame in Autumn attempts to contribute to many spheres and for socializing. In 2006–07, the Ethics 2007; a dinner with faculty and students; of life in the Divinity School: academic, Club hosted six noontime meetings. Discus- and continued noontime discussions and professional, and social. This article sions with faculty included Professor Richard evenings at the Pub. One way in which continues our series about Divinity Shweder of the Department of Comparative we would like to grow as an organization is School student life. Human Development and Professors Franklin to make more connections between students I. Gamwell, Martha Nussbaum, Jean Bethke in the Masters and the early stages of the To learn more about the DSA and its Elshtain, and William Schweiker, all of the Ph.D. program and more advanced Ph.D. many activities, please visit http:// Divinity School. Topics of these discussions students, so we encourage all our Ph.D. divinity.uchicago.edu/student/dsa/ ranged from process theology to female students to submit papers either for our index.shtml circumcision to just-war theory and the war upcoming conferences or for a noontime

AUTUMN/WINTER 2007–2008 | 7 Autumn and Winter Events

Wednesday Community Luncheons

Every Wednesday when school is in session 12:00 noon–1:30 p.m., Swift Common Room Lunches this year will include acclaimed modern architects Tod Williams and Billie Tsien—designers of the University’s new Reva and David Logan Center for Creative and Performing Arts—pictured below; Dr. Rick Kittles of the Department of Medicine on genetics, race, and ancestry; Dean’s Fora with Professors Jean-Luc Marion and James Robinson; Professor Stephen Pruett-Jones from Ecology & Evolution on Hyde Park’s monk parakeets; and many more.

For calendar updates, please consult the Divinity School’s website at http:// divinity.uchicago.edu. Access the most up-to-date events information, sign up for our events listserve (“At the Divinity School”), and get current (and archived) news. Please see p.10 for detailed information on upcoming conferences. Photo by Michael Moran

EVENTS AUTUMN AND WINTER QUARTERS INCLUDE Please see http://divinity.uchicago.edu/ news/wednesdays.shtml for upcoming dates AAR/SBL Reception and speaker information. Lunch itself (a vegetarian meal; a vegan 18 Sunday, November option is available by prior request) is prepared 9:00 p.m., San Diego, California and served by our creative and energetic All Divinity School alumni and friends are student staff. Those interested in attending invited to a reception at the annual meeting should reserve a lunch in advance by email- ing [email protected] or by calling of the American Academy of Religion (AAR) 773-702-8230. and Society for Biblical Literature (SBL) to be held this year in San Diego, California. 2007 For more information, please contact Mary Alumnus of the Year Jean Kraybill at 773-702-8248 or mjkraybill Lecture and Reception @uchicago.edu. See you there! 1 Border Crossing Series Thursday, November 4:00 p.m., Swift Lecture Hall A cycle of three conferences each A public lecture by John C. Holt, Ph.D. academic year will provide opportunities 1977 (History of Religions), the Divinity for ministers, faculty, M.Div. and Ph.D. School’s Alumnus of the Year for 2007. students to explore the interrelated- A reception will follow. Read more about ness of their intellectual interests and Professor Holt and his work here: http:// professional pursuits. divinity.uchicago.edu/alumni/awards/holt.shtml See http://divinity.uchicago.edu/events Please note: There is no Nuveen Lecture this year. /lilly/ for more info. The 2008 Alumnus of the Year Lecture and Reception will be held in April of 2008. Advocacy in the Pulpit and the Classroom September 19, 2007 Franklin I. Gamwell, keynote address Bond Chapel Worship Music in American Religious Every Wednesday when school is in session Experience 11:30 a.m.–12:00 noon January 25, 2008 Joseph Bond Chapel, 1050 East 59th Street Phillip Bohlman and Edith Blumhofer, speakers Bond Chapel worship is a brief midweek service of music, prayer, readings, and preach- Fourth Annual Student-Organized ing in an ecumenical spirit, offered by and Ministry Conference 18, 2008 for the students, staff, and faculty of the April Divinity School and the wider University community. The weekly gathering provides regular space and place for reflection, Please see Marty Center Conferences, p.10, wonder, and praise. All are welcome! for information on upcoming conferences.

8CIRCA The Martin Marty Center builds on a long-standing Marty conviction of the Divinity School that the best and most innovative scholarship in religion emerges from Center sustained dialogue with the world outside the academy. In all of its projects, the Center aims to serve as a robust circulatory system News and that strengthens, deepens, and extends scholarly inquiry by moving it through the deliberating bodies of the students, faculty, and Events public. — William Schweiker, Director of the Marty Center William Schweiker Appointed Director of Marty Center

his May, Richard A. Rosengarten, Dean of the Divinity School, announced the appointment of William Schweiker, T Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theo- logical Ethics, to the directorship of the Martin Marty Center, the Divinity School’s institute for the advanced study of religion.

Professor Schweiker’s scholarship and teach- The work of the MMC in terms of ing engage theological and ethical questions supporting faculty work and sponsoring attentive to global dynamics, comparative conferences and publications will continue religious ethics, the history of ethics, and under Professor Schweiker. His own hermeneutical philosophy. research concerns will find some expression His recent books include Power, Value in the Center’s work as well. “I want to and Conviction: Theological Ethics in the give special attention to the historical and Postmodern Age (1998) and Theological Ethics contemporary interactions—contentious, and Global Dynamics: In the Time of Many peaceful, concealed, and intentional— Worlds (2004). He has published numerous among religions,” said Schweiker. “I am articles and award-winning essays, as well as engaged in exploring and also advancing the dissertation seminar that is a crucial edited and contributed to forms of religious humanism piece of the Center’s annual work.” six volumes, including, now arising within various con- The vision of establishing a venue for the most recently, Humanity texts which aim to address the advanced study of religions at the University Before God: Contemporary various global challenges people of Chicago came from Joseph M. Kitagawa, Faces of Jewish, Christian face. I intend to engage in dean of the Divinity School from 1970 to and Islamic Ethics (2006). research projects on these global 1980. Martin E. Marty, a historian of mod- Professor Schweiker was dynamics and interactions with ern Christianity, worked closely with Dean also chief editor and con- an eye to the role—if any— Kitagawa to formulate the purposes and tributor to A Companion the religions can play in forging operation of the center within the context to Religious Ethics (2004), a humane future.” of the Divinity School’s general mission a comprehensive and Professor Schweiker of teaching and graduate research. The innovative work in the succeeds Wendy Doniger, the Institute for the Advanced Study of Religion field of comparative reli- Mircea Eliade Distinguished officially opened in October 1979, with gious ethics. He is cur- Service Professor of the History Professor Marty as its director. Subsequent rently an editor of The of Religions, as director of the directors have been Bernard McGinn (1983– Journal of Religion and is writing a book Center. Dean Rosengarten offered 1992), a historian of on “theological humanism.” Professor the following words of gratitude to medieval Christianity; Schweiker is an ordained minister in the Professor Doniger for her three years Frank Reynolds (1992– United Methodist Church. of service at the Center’s helm: “I 2000), a historian of am tremendously grateful to Wendy religions who special- Doniger for three inspired years of izes in Buddhist studies; “I want to give leadership of the Marty Center. As and W. Clark Gilpin Director she shaped a distinctive (2001–2004). In 1998, special attention to the intellectual profile for the Center’s the Institute for the historical and contemporary work, one that focused the question Advanced Study of of public religion as a comparative Religion was renamed interactions — contentious, project and that also brought into the Martin Marty peaceful, concealed, play classic questions about the her- Center, to honor its and intentional — among itage of the study of religion in rela- founding director tion to the “Chicago School” of the history for his singular distinction as historian, religions.” of religions à la Joachim Wach and Mircea author, and commentator on religion Eliade. She was also a devoted architect of and public life. ❑

AUTUMN/WINTER 2007–2008 | 9 Marty Center Conferences

Religion will be considered as a mediator of mourning in papers that speak to its role in the transformation of meaning wrought by the mourning of death and loss. Religion will also be considered as a lost object itself, as a set of symbolic structures whose efficacy has been lost to those who take their bear- ings from a secular worldview. Following the work of Peter Homans, Professor Emeritus of Psychology and of Religious Studies in the Divinity School, who has traced the origins of psychoanalysis to Freud’s loss of traditional religious involvement, these papers undercut the usual dichotomies of secular/religious and mourning/melancholy, demonstrating an internal and ongoing relationship to a reworked conception of religion embedded within such presumedly secular disciplines as psychoanalysis and the academic study of religion. Mourning and Religion: Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Role Please join us as we consider the roles of religion, mourning, and psychoanalysis of Religion in Individual and Cultural Loss in our plural and interconnected worlds of October 26–27, 2007, Swift Hall belief and doubt, faith and disillusionment, engagement and critique. his conference will address connec- change entails a psychic labor with a creative Sponsored by the Divinity School of the tions among religion, mourning, and dimension. New forms of memory, identity, University of Chicago with the Center for psychoanalysis, taking each term as morality and solidarity can be produced on T Religion and Psychotherapy of Chicago. both framework and object of analysis. The the individual level; and new cultural prod- focus of the conference involves the paradox ucts, such as the theoretical inventiveness of Please visit http://marty-center.uchicago of mourning: the mourning (and melancholy) psychoanalysis and religious studies them- .edu/conferences/mourning/index.shtml/ that follow death and other forms of loss and selves, may emerge on the cultural level. for more details.

Upcoming 2008 Conferences

Religion and the City: Our Urban Humanity and the World Beyond

February 5–6, 2008, Gleacher Center and River East Art Center, Chicago he Divinity School is pleased to CONFERENCE 80 announce a celebration of the th Tuesday afternoon, February 5, and T birthday of Martin Marty, Fairfax Wednesday morning, February 6, 2008 M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Gleacher Center Emeritus of the History of Modern Chris- tianity in the Divinity School—and the The conference will consist of keynote talks 10th anniversary of the Marty Center, to be (Ray Suarez, confirmed; other keynote held on February 5 and 6, 2008. speakers TBA), and sessions on various The celebration will consist of a two-day aspects of the theme ‘religion and the city.’ conference and an evening celebration. CELEBRATION Please visit http://marty-center.uchicago Tuesday, February 5, 2008, 6–8 p.m. .edu/conferences/city/ for more details. River East Art Center

Augustine: Theological and Philosophical Conversations — A Conference Honoring David Tracy

May 4 –6, 2008, Swift Hall n May of 2008 the University of antiquity through the medieval and early Chicago will hold a conference celebrat- modern periods to the present. But, through- Iing the theological scholarship of David out, it aims to establish a series of conversa- Tracy and discussing central issues in his tions between the Augustinian tradition, current research. In consultation with Prof. broadly conceived, and contemporary Tracy, the Divinity School has organized the scholarship in theology, philosophy, and conference to explore the significance of cultural history. Augustine of Hippo for interpreting our contemporary theological, philosophical, FOR MORE INFORMATION and cultural circumstances. Prof. Tracy is The conference schedule and more details scheduled to present one of the papers will be made available in November. himself, at 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 4. Please bookmark the conference’s web site: The conference structure will be chrono- http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/conferences logical, with sessions proceeding from late /tracy/.

10 C I R C A An Interview with William Schweiker

illiam Schweiker is the Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics. He was appointed to the directorship of the Martin Marty Center in May, 2007. W Here he discusses his future plans for the Center. CIRCA: What does it mean to you to have those projects will be defined by the partici- been appointed the new director of the pants. Beyond those initiatives there are two Marty Center, and what are your plans for major things I am planning to begin at the the Center? Center. For many years the Center has hosted senior scholars from a variety of fields. These WS: It is a genuine honor for me to be scholars participate in the Fellows Seminar appointed the Director of the Marty Center. and at times have taught courses and seminars. I am excited about continuing the work This coming year we will begin the Senior of many years and so many scholars. My Fellows’ Symposium. A Senior Fellow, begin- connection to the Center is longstanding. ning this coming Spring with Professor Mary When a student, I was selected as a Junior Gerhardt, will give a public presentation Fellow in the Institute for the Advanced and discussion of work. This will allow the Study of Religion, as it was then called, Center to showcase our Senior Fellows and directed by Bernard McGinn. Since joining also, I hope, to attract more applications for the faculty, I have helped to run the Seminar research time at the Center. Conjointly, I with previous directors Frank Reynolds, want to use these occasions to involve other Clark Gilpin, and Wendy Doniger. Further, research centers around the university and I have been fortunate enough to help orga- the city and thereby to further the visibility nize several conferences co-sponsored by of the Center. the Marty Center. I have also done some The other initiative I would like to see writing for Sightings and also the Web Forum. is to facilitate work in-house in the Divinity So, in various ways, I have come to under- School among faculty in a particular area stand and deeply appreciate the intellectual (say, Theology or History of Judaism) that vitality of the Center. will increase the vitality of work and also The Marty Center must remain at the the general conversation in Swift Hall. The forefront of scholarship on religion and to Marty Center has always been a place for continue to build on its renown. Meeting “Freedom of inquiry is more this faculty to meet and to discuss topics of those aspirations is my first responsibility, important today than at shared interest. I am hoping in various ways as I see it. I intend to do so by supporting to build on that past. The precise form these faculty research, fostering new projects, and anytime in the recent past, and meetings will take will obviously be deter- continuing the work of the Fellows Seminar that is true, I believe, even for mined by the participants, but I am already and our various publications. I also hope the religions themselves.” having conversations with various folks about to make contact with other research centers how to facilitate those discussions. around the university, the nation, and also In the course of the next three years I hope globally. Happily, we have two important In my own case, three interlocking concerns these initiatives will become permanent conferences already in the works for this shape my current work which I intend to features of the work of the Center. coming year, one around Martin Marty’s explore in collaboration with faculty here birthday and also the conference in honor and other scholars, both in meetings and CIRCA: Tell us something about your current of David Tracy. We will work to make these conferences. (non-MMC) projects, and your goals for major events for the Center and the Divinity One interest of mine is the current up- future research? School. Other events are also afoot. surge of new forms of “humanism.” We are The Center has been always been living in an age of manifold types of endanger- WS: I intend to do more work on the theme concerned with the public meaning of the ment to life through the extension of human of theological and religious humanism in a religions. In fact, attention to the social power in its various forms, ranging from variety of ways. My next big project, which reality of religion is a longstanding focus genetics to the environment. This opens I am now beginning, builds on my previous of work at the Divinity School, one that questions about the relation of religion and writing and will tackle the whole theme of reaches back to our earliest years. Further- science, but also historical, comparative, and “ethics and the integrity of life.” This will more, everyone working in religious studies constructive work on what the religions mean involve historical work—in (say) terms of nowadays is mindful of the importance, and by “life” and its forms, its moral status, and how ideas of “life” are used in Christian also sometimes the peril, of good critical, also the scope of human responsibility. I think thought but also the legacy of Lebensphilo- historical, and constructive work on the this could be a rich topic to explore from sophie and also current ethics—but also religions. If one looks globally, there are various perspectives. My hope, then, is to debates at the interface of ethics, religion, manifold challenges—authoritarian and foster interest in research around these three and the life sciences. My intention is that otherwise—to the rigorous analysis and broad areas of concern. this research will find expression in a interpretation of the religions. Freedom of systematic work in theological ethics. inquiry is more important today than at CIRCA: This year you will be inaugurating Beyond those projects, I also try to be anytime in the recent past, and that is true, some new events and projects at the Marty responsive to various requests to speak and I believe, even for the religions themselves. Center. Could you tell us a little about the to write on a host of topics. Who knows The Marty Center has been a bulwark for genesis of these new items, and where you what the future holds in that respect? That the spirit of inquiry and it must continue hope to see them at the end of your three- for me is just part of the adventure of think- that tradition of research. year term? ing. And I am delighted that I can continue Given the shared ethos among everyone the adventure in a new way through my involved with the place, it is also the case WS: I have already noted that I want to help work with the Marty Center. ❑ that each of the directors has left her or his to foster and sponsor work on three areas distinctive mark on the work of the Center. of interest, realizing that the precise shape of

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history and fiction. To that end, I asked for a book review of the recent popular spy thriller Q written by a group of four Italian activists now known as Wu Ming (at the time they used the pseudonym “Luther Blissett”). This novel tells the story of an Anabaptist who began as a disciple of Thomas Müntzer and narrowly escaped death during the Peasants’ War, unlike “Magister Thomas,” who was quickly executed after his capture. Our hero would go on to survive the siege of Münster in 1535, form a new life among a group of spiritualizing Anabaptists in the Netherlands, become rich by cheating the richest banking family of Europe through credit fraud, and finally help finance the dis- semination of the subversive Benefit of Christ in Venice in the late 1540s. Throughout the novel he plays a game of cat and mouse with A Report from the Wilson Teaching Fellow a heretic hunter and spy named Q who works for none other than the zealous Catholic counter-reformer Gian Pietro Carafa, later ach year, the Alma Wilson Teaching Fellowship, made possible Pope Paul IV (r. 1555 – 1559). My students rose to the occasion in their reviews, remind- by a generous endowment gift, provides one advanced graduate ing me that every work of history or historical student in the Divinity School an opportunity for supervised fiction tells readers as much or more about E the time period of the author(s) than the teaching experience in the University of Chicago’s undergraduate college. actual events depicted in the narrative. For example, some of my students argued that Last winter, as the Alma Wilson Teaching our Anabaptist’s progressive movement from Fellow, I taught a course on sixteenth- overt revolutionary violence to subversive century Anabaptism and Spiritualism and economic and propagandistic measures the representations of these “Radical” move- against the Imperial and Papal status quo ments in historical and fictional narratives. reflects the Italian authors’ view that often I knew it would be a great quarter when, on the most effective way to produce change the first day, several of my eighteen students in society is by quietly undermining the questioned the title of my course: “The foundation of power, not confronting it Radical Reformation of the Sixteenth head-on. Our readings of Gottfried Keller’s Century.” For what exactly did I mean by novella Ursula and Friedrich Engels’s The “radical”? Indeed, as more than one student German Peasants War in the last few weeks pointed out, “radical” could mean many of the course likewise demonstrated that the different things. I was more than happy to Radical reformers of the sixteenth century begin my answer by explaining that while could be useful for later generations of social Martin Luther was clearly the most theolog- radicals or conservatives looking for charlatans, ically radical of the Reformers who broke with “Indeed, as more than heretics, or heroes. the Roman Church, given his claim that we one student pointed out, Finally, I assigned a research paper on are saved by grace through faith and are there- some aspect of the Radical Reformation, fore simul iustus et peccator in this life, Luther “radical” could mean many due at the end of the course. Given that was also a social conservative who condemned different things.” the course was cross-listed in History and the peasant uprisings in the Empire between Religious Studies, I gave the students con- 1524 and 1525 and relied on the German siderable freedom to pursue their own inter- princes for support against Rome. or “Wiedertäufer”). A few Radicals even ests, and they did not disappoint. I learned By highlighting Luther’s social conser- contended that armed revolutionary action why there was no lasting Radical Reformation vatism, I was then able to introduce the was necessary to free the common people in Sweden (there was one printing press, socially “Radical” reformers and sects that from their bondage to the secular and eccle- controlled by the pro-Lutheran Crown), we were to study within the historical siastical “fat cats” and usher in the Kingdom why the Schleitheim Confession of 1527 is context of the mid-1520s and beyond. of God. None other than Thomas Müntzer, reminiscent of the Rule of St. Benedict and As James Stayer points out in The German perhaps the most well known Radical its focus on obedience (its author, Michael Peasants’ War and Anabaptist Community reformer of the sixteenth century, heralded Sattler, had been Prior of St. Peter’s monastery of Goods (required reading in the course), this position. Finally, some Radicals, troubled in the Black Forest), and how contemporary many who participated in the Peasant’s War by the increasing proliferation of Anabaptist Unitarians have appropriated the sixteenth- felt that Luther and Zwingli had not fully sects in the 1520s and 1530s, contended that century Socinians into their own historical based their reforms on the model of the the true Church of God was internal and memory. These are but a few examples of Apostolic Church, especially with respect spiritual. They therefore abandoned reliance the fine work produced by my students, and to the idea that one must choose to follow on external ceremonies or rites to some I thoroughly enjoyed reading their book the example of Christ and reshape the social degree or another and claimed adherence to reviews and final papers. In fact, most of the order along New Testament lines. This view the true Church of the Spirit. Such was the credit for this course goes to them, for the gained currency among a group of Swiss view of the “Spiritualist” Sebastian Franck, high quality of their written work, grounded reformers led by the humanist Conrad who argued that the true visible Church had in our lively discussions of the primary and Grebel who began to re-baptize each other fallen after the death of the apostles. secondary readings in class, would have in January of 1525 in order to separate them- One of the most interesting aspects of been impossible without their dedication selves from the false Christians in Zurich the course was our look at various represen- and hard work throughout the quarter. ❑ (hence the pejorative term “Anabaptist,” tations of the Radical Reformation in — Adam Darlage

12 C I R C A Marty Center Fellows 2007-2008

The Martin Marty Center, continuing its emphasis on global interactions and aspects of religion, will have one senior fellow and sixteen junior fellows in 2007‒08.

his year’s Marty Center disserta- Spencer Dew, “Pedagogy and Community: tion seminar is being offered in Kathy Acker’s ‘Talmudic Mode’” two sections, one led by William Joel Harter, “The Word Made Flesh: Symbol Schweiker, director of the Center; and Coleridge’s Theological Hermeneutics” Tthe other led by Wendy Doniger, past director. Both the Senior Research Fellows and Elizabeth Hopp-Peters, “Breaking Pots, Junior Dissertation Fellows, listed below, will Making Metaphors: Prophetic Action participate in the seminar, which is designed Narratives in the Book of Jeremiah” to advance interdisciplinary research in all Jeff Israel, “Jewish Humor and Political areas of religious studies. Junior Fellows will Civility: On Moral Play with Tradition, be required to present their individual pro- broke new ground with their Metaphoric Self, and Others” jects not only within the seminar, before Process: The Creation of Scientific and Religious their peers, but before public interlocutors Understanding (1984) and New Maps for Old: Meira Kensky, “Trying Man, Trying God: at a special spring meeting. The seminar’s Explorations in Science and Religion (2001). The Divine Courtroom in Jewish and goal is, thus, to help participants articulate Their third book is her project for her year Christian Literature” their projects in ways that will be intelligible as a Marty Center Fellow. to specialists and non- David Monaco, “The Sentences of the Syriac Menander: Introduction, Text and specialists alike. Junior Fellows This year the MMC Translation, and Commentary” is instituting a new Of our sixteen junior fellows, thirteen are event, the Senior Divinity School students and three are Fellow Symposium. extradepartmental. This event will allow a Senior Fellow to Barbra Barnett, “Religious Arguments present her or his work in the Public Square: An Examination of in a public forum to Religious Freedom in Discourse Theory members of the seminar, the entire Divinity of Law and Democracy” School community and also members of the Brian Collins, “Themes of Matricide, Mass University and interested persons. Professor Killing, Cattle Theft, and Mixed Birth in Mary Gerhart will be speaking at the first the Mythology of Parashurama” Senior Fellow Symposium to be held this Edward Silver, “The Schools of Jeremiah: year, with a reception to follow. The date Signs, Symbols and Text-Formation in the will be announced on our website. Book of Jeremiah” Sandra Sullivan, “I Was Hungry and Senior Research Fellow You Gave Me Food: Agape, Justice and Special Relations Seen Through the Lens Our Marty Center Senior Research Fellow of Dependent Care” for 2007–2008 is Mary Gerhart. Professor Gerhart will be working on a book with the Thomas Zebrowski, “Theology and Philos- working title The Divine Conjectures: Toward ophy in the Ethics of Alasdair MacIntyre” a Loving Universe, based on what is known of the workings of conjecture and hypothesis Extradepartmental Fellows in science and religion. Mary Gerhart (Ph.D. 1973) is Professor Sean Anthony, Near Eastern Languages Emerita of Religious Studies at Hobart and Adam Darlage, “Priests Under Pressure: and Civilizations William Smith Colleges in Catholic Polemics and Propaganda in “‘Abd Allah b. Saba’ and the Saba’ı¯ya: Geneva, New York. She Nikolsburg, Moravia (1575–1610)” The Origins of Shı¯’ism and Ghulu¯w served as Editorial Chair of between History and Theologoumena” Religious Studies Review and Erik Davis, “Society After Trauma: as visiting professor at the Buddhism and The Dead in Contemporary University of Houston and Cambodia” of Notre Dame. Her academic work has long emphasized an inter- disciplinary approach. Her books include The Question of ‘Belief’ in Literary Criticism: An Introduc- tion to the Hermeneutical Theory of Paul Ricoeur (1979, based on her dissertation) 1992 and Genre Choices, Gender Questions ( ). Melissa Weininger, Committee on With Anthony Yu, she published Morpholo- Jewish Studies gies of Faith: Essays in Religion and Culture 1990 “Imagining ‘That Man’: Three Jewish in Honor of Nathan A. Scott, Jr. ( ). Writers on Jesus” The Christianity Reader, an 864-page anthol- ogy of primary texts from 200 BCE to the Hong You, East Asian Languages present—which she edited with Fabian and Civilizations Udoh—appeared in July 2007. “Popular Religious Revival in Contemporary Her work with physicist Allan Russell China: Religion, Local Culture, and the State”

AUTUMN/WINTER 2007–2008 | 13 Gifts to the Divinity SchoolM 2006‒2007

Norman and Nancy Gustaveson J. Ronald Engel The Dean, the faculty, and the students in the Divinity School George P. Guthrie Russell L. and Delores M. Fate Joshua D. Heikkila Michael and Mona Fishbane extend their sincere thanks to all who support the work of the Susan Elaine Hill Miles Mark Fisher IV Katherine Hines-Shah David H. Fong School. The following alumni, friends, and organizations Dwayne E. Huebner Fourth Presbyterian Church J. Keith Keeling Sally Jacobson Frostic 2006 2007 Carolyn C. Kinsley Bartlett Gage generously contributed cash gifts during the – fiscal Hans G. Kippenberg Eugene V. Gallagher James N. Lapsley, Jr. Boyd Gibson year ( July 1, 2006 through June 30, 2007). Leo D. Lefebure Elmore Giles, Jr. Jeanne W. Loomer Penny Gill Lynn P. McClure Jean Gillies Peter J. Mehl Roger Gilmore William James Meyer G. Wayne Glick W. Mark and Bonnie Jean Joanna F. and Mark A. Goodin The Dean’s Circle Ronne B. Hartfield Miller-McLemore Janice E. Gordon-Barnes $25,000+ Patricia E. Kauffman Frank D. Minton Donald E. Gowan Daniel R. Murray John C. and Gerald J. and Jean Gregg The Baptist Theological Union Hoken S. Seki Christa M. Modschiedler Galen J. Guengerich and Robert L. Berner, Jr. and Sheila R. Berner Everett J. Tarbox, Jr. and Lora Hill Tarbox Schubert M. Ogden Holly G. Atkinson Rebecca Pallmeyer and Roger D. Haight E. Rhodes and Dan McAdams Charles H. Hambrick Leona B. Carpenter Foundation Eri B. Hulbert Fellows David B. Parke Gary L. Harbaugh Robert and Jean Carton $1,000 –$2,499 Wayne Parman Nancy A. Hardesty Jane B. and John C. Colman Richard B. Pilgrim J. Albert Harrill Patrick and Anna Cudahy Fund George and Martha Bermingham Michael B. Raschko Roger Hatch and Richard D. and Janet Cudahy Lisa A. Cavallari John W. Reed Joyce A. Baugh William R. Schoedel Robert A. Hausman Margaret C. Fallers Faye Anne and John Chaplin Joan and Robert Feitler Winifred Eleanor Scott John and Susan Rae Helgeland Robert W. and Elizabeth R. Crowe Michael A. Sells Thomas Eugene Helm The Ford Foundation Porter G. and Lisa Nye Dawson William A. Simpson Stewart W. Herman III Lear Family Foundation Victoria J. Dorgan G. Ralph Strohl and Stephen A. Hirby Lyn and Norman Lear James L. Foorman Mrinalini Rao William G. Horton The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Arthur B. Francis Robert Alan Super Wilbur K. Huck Marjorie Lindsay Reed Carlson Gerdau Mary-Morag Sutherland Marjorie M. Hyer Smart Family Foundation, Inc. Donald A. Gillies Edgar A. Towne Henry Idema III Raymond Smart W. Clark Gilpin Roderick J. Wagner Douglas Jake Jacobsen Donald R. Weisbaker Robert W. and Joan M. Jais Hon. Joan B. Gottschall Charles L. Johnson Larry L. Greenfield Ernest Cadman Colwell Fellows Century Club Barbara Bakke Kaiser 10 000 24 999 John B. and Linda H. Hillman 100 249 Masahiro Kano $ , –$ , Timothy Holmes $ –$ Teruo Kawata Matthew Kapstein Werner H. Kelber Anonymous Charles J. Adams Hersch M. Klaff Hugh J. Kennedy, Jr. The Field Foundation of Illinois, Inc. Brenda Eatman Aghahowa David W. Maher Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Kensky Oliver Nicklin Catherine L. Albanese Anthony Martin Maramarco Alden Productions, Inc. G. Richard Kern Nuveen Benevolent Trust Scott R. Martin Larry J. Alderink Takeshi Kimura John S. Nuveen Hans-Josef Klauck Eleanor K. Nicholson Edward Walter Amend Robert K. Parsons and Victoria J. Herget Frederick C. Klawiter North Shore Baptist Church Alan B. Anderson Robert G. and Mary Wegner Schloerb Michael C. Kotzin William C. Pate Philip A. Anderson, Jr. Joseph P. Sullivan* and Jeanne M. Sullivan Barbara A. Andrews Ronald E. Krahenbuhl Emery A. Percell Timothy J. Aspinwall Rebecca Susan Krantz Suzanne Meyer Perry Pierre Fisher Auger and William R. LaFleur Shirley Jackson Case Fellows Paul and Abigail Pribbenow Jill Fisher Auger James Welborn Lewis Michael Lieb $5,000 –$9,999 Joseph Llewellyn Price II Rufus F. Baehr Erroll F. Rhodes Philip R. Bane Armin H. and Shirley Limper Jeffrey H. Lindgren Accenture Foundation Richard Alan Rosengarten George William Barnard David L. Bartlett Jeffrey S. and Paula R. Lindner Mary Lou and Thomas R. Brous Charlotte H. Scott Diana Lynn Lingafelter Estate of Emaroy June Smith Russell J. Becker Martin E. Marty Peter T. Beckman, Jr. Lowell W. and David John Smith Martin Riesebrodt and Lydia V. Beckman Lois Gehr Livezey Richard P. and Ella D. Strubel James E. Spicer Joan L. Bell-Haynes Peter Machinist Iver F. Yeager Lynn Straus Bennett and Associates William Madges Barbara Kirchick Urbut and Thomas R. Bennett II Kevin J. Madigan and Michael W. Urbut Douglas C. Benson Stephanie Ann Paulsell Shailer Mathews Fellows David Jon Van Houten The Biblical Colloquium William Kalley Mahony Clyde A. and Carol Lee Black David Raymond Mason $2,500 –$4,999 Carol Warshawsky Gerald Patrick McKenny Sarita Warshawsky Mary M. Boyvey Hilary M. Bradbury Catherine McNally-Allen and Chapin-May Foundation of Illinois William H. Allen * Deceased James M. Brandt Norman and Kathleen Clairmont William O. Breedlove Woodrow S. Mertens The Donnelley Foundation Walter L. Brenneman, Jr. Messiah Lutheran Church Nina Herrmann Donnelley Herbert Bronstein William E. Middleton and Shawn M. Donnelley Don S. Browning Barbra Anne Hardy Gary Broxmeyer and Family David H. Miley Muriel Broxmeyer Alan L. Miller John M. Buchanan James R. Monroe, Jr. Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley Dominic V. Monti Richard Clarence Bush, Jr. William H. Moore Midway Club Mary Jean Kraybill Scholars Club Thomas Anthony Byrnes Kenneth R. Muse $500 –$999 Matthew Richard Lawrence $250 –$499 Kathleen Anne Cahalan and Susan Nash Bernard McGinn Donald B. Ottenhoff Gordon L. Nelson Tom and Maureen Kane Berg Margaret Mary Mitchell Abbott Laboratories Jean K. Carney Randolph A. Nelson Frank Burch Brown Mary Cone O'Riley Employee Giving Campaign Soon-Hyang Chung Scott D. Nielsen John I. and Samuel C. Pearson, Jr. Hans Dieter and Christel Betz John B. Cobb, Jr. North Shore Patricia S. Cadwallader Everett and Margaret Perry Kenneth and Sara Bigger Kelton Cobb and Congregation Israel Lisa G. Sowle Cahill Frank E. Reynolds Brian Michael Britt Heidi Gehman Eric W. Nye Tim Child James T. and Jerome Bernard Brooks* Lee A. Crawford Charles Daniel Orzech Dorothy and David Crabb Laura Campbell Rhind Bernard and Carol Jean Brown Keith A. Davis Sueo Oshima Thomas J. D’Alesandro IV Aileen and John Schloerb Susan Broxmeyer Robert D. Denham Robert J. Parker, Jr. and Frank D. Dorey Waldemar Schmeichel Edwin Thomas Callahan III Cora K. Dice Sarah Elizabeth Taylor Emily Huggins Fine David Schmidt and Rolf H. Charlston Jeffrey Edward Doane E. Spencer Parsons Richard M. Franklin Norma Michalski Kristine Ann Culp Dimis T. Dowse John H. Patton Stanislaus Grabarek William Shiner Judith A. Demetriou John L. Dreibelbis Edwin D. Peterman Robert M. Grant Douglas and Margie Sturm Franklin I. Gamwell Thomas A. Droege Edward Albert Phillips, Jr. Henry O. Hardy Leonard Thompson William George and Paul Brooks Duff G. Philip Points Susan B. Johnson and Mark and Jeffica Toulouse Susan Ross Dennis C. Duling Lynn Margaret Poland Dennis P.W. Johnson Judith Van Herik and Chester Gillis Claudette T. Dwyer Thomas H. Quigley, Jr. and Kent Douglas Kirby James Culang, Jr. David Paul Grandstrand Otis C. Edwards, Jr. Jane Quigley Wesley A. Kort Joan W. Ward Karen R. Guberman Mr. and Mrs. Stan Elias Jill Raitt Clark M. and Barry Guiduli and Robert S. Ellwood, Jr. Gene Reeves Barbara E. Williamson Margaret Armstrong Alan C. Embree Kenneth F. Ripple

14 C I R C A Elliott and Lynn Ross-Bryant Mae J. Durland Stephen C. Rowe Stephen Curtis Duvall William L. Sachs Leland E. Elhard Gifts in memory of Professor Tikva Frymer-Kensky Debra Samuels W. Douglas Ensminger Marthame E. Sanders III S. Bernhard Erling Sarah Bowen and Martin J. Essig and The Divinity School is grateful for the gifts made during the 2006- John-Paul Savant Yvonne T. Gilmore 07 academic year to honor the life and work of Professor Tikva Lindell L. Sawyers H. Joan Evans Gregory Schneider Daniel Rush Finn Frymer-Kensky. The donors are listed below. If you would like to Craig Alan Schroeder Kelly Erin Finn contribute to the Tikva Frymer-Kensky Memorial Fund, please con- James Hubert Shackelford Kirstin Boswell Ford 773 702 8248 Talbert O. Shaw Robert E. Frederick tact Mary Jean Kraybill at - - or [email protected]. Vivian Irene Shelton Gerald W. Gillette Donna Shewach Duane Gilbert Grage Barbara Andrews Penny Gill Mr. and Mrs. Murray Gerald Lawson Sittser, Jr. James Green The Biblical Colloquium Jon Gruenberg Mr. and Mrs. Sam Pfeffer Jeffrey S. Slovak Thomas G. Green Esther Stern Bloom and Steven Harris Debra Samuels Brent A. and Patricia Smith L. Eugene Groves Benjamin Bloom Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Kensky Donna Shewach and Huston C. Smith Jon Gruenberg Herbert Bronstein Hersch Klaff Stan Elias Brent W. Sockness and Mark A. and Barbara Pitkin Leslie McPherson Hadley Dara Broxmeyer Mr. and William Shiner Bob Speaks, Jr. James S. Hamre Mr. and Mrs. Richard Kirschner Gary and Marion Silverman John Richard Spencer Amy Lignitz Harken Mrs. Gary Broxmeyer Rebecca Susan Krantz Daniel and Katie Snell Elsie Ruth Stern Steven L. Harris and Muriel Broxmeyer and Deborah Lewis Mr. and Mrs. Julius Solomon Alan J. Stone Barbara Bruno Richard Weil Peter Machinist Elsie Ruth Stern Gail Hinich Sutherland Robert A. Hausman Susan Broxmeyer Stanley Marder Richard and June Swartz Robert P. Taylor David M. Held Emily Brunner Margaret Mitchell Weisbach Family William E. and David Lyle Herndon John and Faye Chaplin Kelly Murphy Dian M. Taylor Paul S. Hiyama Laura Jean Torgerson and Gael A. Hodgkins Timothy Q. Donaghy Abigail Christine Emilie M. Townes Zang Hoffman Donald H. Treese John C. Hollowell, Jr. Barbara A. G. Peterson Walter M. Stuhr, Jr. George Samuel Treynor Wesley V. Hromatko Gifts in Mr. and Mrs. Sam Pfeffer Rex J. Styzens Honor of Individuals Jeffrey Alan Trumbower Brian Keith Hunter Roy D. Phillips Michelle Sun John R. Van Eenwyk Betsy Ellen Jansen-Kamphuis Anthony Richard Picarello, Jr. June and Richard Swartz The Divinity School offers Peter Higbie Van Ness Channing R. Jeschke George V. Pixley Paul Joseph Thiboutot special thanks for gifts that David Garrett Vellenga Jennifer Gonder Jesse and Louis M. Pratt J. Mark Thomas Jimmy N. Walker John T. Dungan honored individuals during the Craig R. Prentiss James Jonathan Thompson 2006–2007 year. Larry F. Waltman Thomas E. Johnsrud Elena G. Procario-Foley Nancy M. Tilly Welton Warkentin Larry A. Jones Arthur Marvin Pry Caroline Catherine Tolton In honor of Allan Cox’s birthday George A. Weckman Richard K. Kaeske Arthur E. and Robert H. Tucker J. Stafford Weeks Michael Edwin Karunas Richard P. and Judith C. Puotinen Kerry Merle Tupper Ella D. Strubel Jay Douglas Wexler Robert H. Keller, Jr. Mark Allan Ramion Herbert F. Vetter William E. and Donald H. Wheat Michael Jon Kessler Rudolph Rex Reeder Nelvin L. Vos David G. White Issa J. Khalil Richard Rice Weisbach Family Dian M. Taylor Robert K. Wilson-Black Patricia L. and Rosalind J. Richards Jason Terrence Wall Lydia Nell Wittman Richard J. Kirschner In honor of Susan and Mac Linscott Ricketts William J. Wassner Peter Ward Marty’s anniversary Arnold Jacob Wolf Lloyd R. and Janet Kittlaus Dong-Gook Roh Van B. Weigel Ralph C. Wood, Jr. and Kenneth H. Klein Clark N. Ross James Wellman Joan W. Ward Suzanne C. Wood Donald S. Klinefelter T. Howland Sanks Norman Albert Wells In honor of Richard W. Young John A. Knight, Jr. and Anthony F. Scheurich Richard W. Werner Professor Bernard Meland Melody D. Knowles J. Peter Schineller Paul Henry Westermeyer Emily Joyce Magdelyn Knox John J. Schmitt Charles Alan Wilson Iver F. Yeager Swift Hall Club Karen E. Knutson 1 99 Richard and June Swartz David E. Witheridge $ –$ Robert Emil Koenig Michael A. Scott James Ora Yerkes Gifts in Memoriam Paul Kollman Ronald Eugene Selleck Edward A. Yonan Cherie Weitzner Acierno Carl E. Krieg Samuel Lawrence Adams Edgar Paul Senne Daniel J. Zehnal The Divinity School offers Dale G. Lasky Richard E. Sherrell special thanks for gifts that Robert Eugene Alvis Blaise Levai Katherine J. Amato-Von Hemert Marion and Gary Silverman honored the memory of Deborah and David Lewis Donald R. and Matching Gifts 2006 Maria A. Antonaccio Erika Ann Linden individuals during the – Dianne Emi Arakawa Patricia Hawes Sime 2007 year. Hubert G. Locke Stephen A. and The following companies Yaakov Shalom and Jerome H. Long and foundations generously Rachel Ariel Cynthia L. Simmons In memory of Charles Harvey Lord Michael Bart Skerker matched gifts made during the William Baird 2006 2007 Professor Langdon Gilkey Lutheran Church Marvin E. Smith – academic year: Dorlan Clio Bales of the Resurrection J. Keith Keeling Wayne E. Barr Daniel and Katie Snell Mary Noelene MacDonald Julius and Alice W. Solomon Abbott Laboratories John R. Bean Leland H. Mahood Accenture Foundation * Deceased Francisco J. Benzoni Julius and Alice Solomon Teresa A. Maltby Ted J. Solomon Field Foundation of Illinois, Inc. William Joseph Berger Franklin M. Mangrum Benjamin Bloom Family Terry E. Sparkes International Business Jesse Dayton Mann Richard E. Starkey Machines, Inc. Esther Stern Bloom Stanley Marder Arvel Meryl Steece Pfizer Thomas A. Borchert and Troy Wayne Martin Rhonda Williams Wilson W. Steinbrecher USG Foundation, Inc. D. David Maxfield Elsie Stern John W. Bouseman Linda C. McClain Gary A. Bousman Park McGinty William Clyde Brown John A. Meardon C. Conrad Browne John R. Mendonca Preston M. Browning, Jr. Esther M. Menn Grants to the Divinity School Dara Broxmeyer David G. Mesenbring Emily Sarah Brunner Jeffrey F. Meyer Stanley E. Brush Lauree Hersch Meyer 2006 2007 Margaret K. Burkey Lester V. Meyer Grants made to the Divinity School during the – academic year: Hugh W. Burtner Dale Miller, Jr. Arthur A. and Gilbert E. Miller E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation — To support international Erica Moore Callaham William Thomas Moore summer internships for ministry students. Jason A. Carbine Joseph M. Morales and Amy R. Carr Patricia Blanchette J. Harley Chapman, Jr. Russell R. Morgan, Jr. The Ford Foundation — For the International Association of Black Religions Jacqueline Jinhui Cho Mark and and Spiritualities under the direction of Professor Dwight Hopkins. Kenneth E. Christiansen Donna Morrison-Reed Gerald Christianson Kelly Murphy David Ashton Clairmont Richard Fleming Nance The Lilly Endowment, Inc. — To fund the three-year project Border Crossing: Robert J. Clark Elyse Anne Nelson Winger Collaborative Theological Reflection for Ministry. Donn M. Coddington and Stewart Winger Joseph A. Comber Susan L. Niederfrank Warren R. and Douglas R. W. Norell Andrew W. Mellon Foundation — In support of Professor Anthony C. Yu’s Clara C. Copeland North Shore research and writing on the sixteenth-century masterwork of traditional Chinese Pamela Del Couture Congregation Israel William R. Crockett Stephen Michael Okey fiction, The Journey to the West. Steve J. Crump Linda E. Olds Robert Phillips Davidow Jon Fredric Pahl James A. Denton Harry B. Partin George A. 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Simone M. Sandy Mellon ACLS Dissertation Relationship between Rebekah Erinn Revelle Completion Fellowship Religious Belief and Stackhouse Noah Daniel Salomon Religious Practice in Light Joseph Edward Steineger IV Foreign Language and of the Free Exercise Clause” Thomas J.Tropp Area Study Fellowships (W. Clark Gilpin) M.Div. (FLAS) Joshua Kellerman Bret Alexander Chandler Summer Quarter “The Influence of Ciahnan Quinn Darrell Ellen Alexis Ambrosone Eschatology on Social Benjamin James Dueholm Jawad Qureshi Activism and its Perceived John Zachery Flack Alexander Keith Rocklin Chances of Success” April Joy Lewton (Omar McRoberts) Megan Catherine Mio Academic Year Vy Thanh Nguyen Ellen Alexis Ambrosone Mary Grace Lin Joshua James Patty Anthony Sadek Banout “Attaining to God: Jacqueline Mary Ellen Posek Sidney Sun Huang Maimonides and Levi Kyle Gordon Rader Ruchama Jerusha ben Gershom on Intellect Polly Rebecca Toner Johnston-Bloom in the Book of Job” Ph.D. Charles Scott Preston (James Robinson) Jane Louise Kanarek Alexander Keith Rocklin Cindy Nneoma Osueke College Graduates “Rejecting the Curse of Enrollment Spring 2007 Student Fellowships, in Religious Studies Ham: Nationalism and Grants and Awards its Effects on Religious M.A. 2006–2007 This fall, the Divinity Peter Bradley Andres Interpretation in Colonial 81 School enrolled entering Jordan Renee Berry Ahluwalia Memorial Grant Nigeria” Nine students completed degree candidates John B. Crosby III Sunit Sarvraj Singh (Dwight Hopkins) 1 54 16 fourth-year B.A. papers in ( A.M.R.S., M.A., M.Div., Rachel Katherine Cundy 10 Religious Studies this year, and Ph.D.) Antonia Michelle Daymond AIIS Junior Research Annie Theodoropoulos led by the B.A. paper precep- Deirdre Anne Debruyn Fellowship “Myths, Masks, and tor, Joel Harter. They and Robert Timothy Desmond Discourse: Defining the Convocations Oscar Carlos their topics are (advisors’ Anca Draganescu Boundaries of Personhood Figuero-Castro names follow in brackets): Tarick Fathi Elgendy in Yup’ik Alaska” Autumn 2006 (Bruce Lincoln) Vincent Matthew Evener Charlotte W. Newcombe Jared Conrad-Bradshaw M.Div. Elaine Marie Fisher Doctoral Dissertation “In Bad Hands: Prayer AnnaLinden Weller Myung Sahm Suh Emilie Clare Goodhart Fellowship Beads and Religious Allison Leigh Gray “Reclaiming the Consecratio Ph.D. David Charles Albertson Scholarship” for Christ: Imperial Cult Michelle Anne Guittar Claudia Dorit Bergmann (Christian Wedemeyer) Imagery and the Christian Tiffani Christine Jones Elizabeth Marie Bucar Fulbright-Hays Groups Emperor in Eusebius’ Bradley Glenn Kershner William Andrew Wright Projects Abroad Grant Daniel Cooperider Vita Constantini” Philippa Rose Koch Allyson Celeste Gonzalez “Musings on Mystical (Hans-Josef Klauck) 2007 Rohit Kukreti Pragmatism in Henry David Winter Nicole Verenita Lasky Thoreau and Charles Jessica Wolman Meryl Wells Mazepa Fulbright IIE M.A. Sanders Pierce” “‘We Are Israel’: The Laura Ruth Patten Sanchez Benjamin Schonthal Jerome V. Caponigro (W. Clark Gilpin) Septuagint, the Parting of Daniel Arthur Rober Ph.D. Henry Luce Fellowship the Ways, and the Formation Alexander Keith Rocklin Monica Groat of a Christian Identity” Antonios Finitsis Bonnie K. Carenen “Reconsidering the Wall (Margaret Mitchell) of Separation: An Analysis Some of our Ph.D. graduates are available for appointment. Their resumes can of Thomas Jefferson’s be accessed online at http://divinity.uchicago.edu/resumebook/index.html Understanding of the

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