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Letter from the Dean CIRCA News from the University of Chicago Divinity School AS YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED, THE RECENT UPDATE TO THE DESIGN OF THE Divinity School’s website includes a “virtual” faculty bookcase that loads when you click on the “Faculty” tab. It is indeed (as I have been asked) meant to replicate online the glass fronted wooden bookcase of “Recent Faculty Publications” that is the focal point for anyone entering the Swift Hall lobby from the main quadrangle, the hearth of the Divinity School. Faculty research and publications that which an historian is and is not a diagnos- shape their fields of inquiry remain at the tician of her own age were keen in the heart of what the School is about—its work, discussion of Schreiner’s book, Are You purpose, values, fundamental significance Alone Wise? Debates about Certainty in the and impact. Letter Early Modern Era, even as in conversation One of the ways that this is enshrined on Kevin Hector’s Theology without Meta- in the life of the Divinity School is a long- physics: God, Language, and the Spirit of standing tradition of the Dean’s Forum, a from the Recognition and Kristine Culp’s Vulnerability conversation at a Wednesday lunch in the and Glory: A Theological Account, studies Common Room (immediately behind the of theological language, referentiality and bookcase in the foyer, a room that contains Dean metaphysics and the theology of suffering, an actual hearth). Each Dean’s Forum focuses respectively, the measured responsibilities on a single recent faculty book or other to traditions and voices both past and publication; the usual format includes a present were pressed and engaged. For all brief authorial introduction to the book and four of these books the tasks of history and then responses from one or more faculty theology ineluctably involve serious reflec- colleagues who represent expertise and tion on the meanings of human suffering interests close to or far away from the subject and human living. in question. Despite the extraordinary Several of the fora involved powerful range of faculty specialization, recurrent and evocative readings and interpretations themes that define, inspire, haunt and of literary texts. In his response to François embolden our work continually emerge for Meltzer’s Seeing Double: Baudelaire’s discussion and debate. Modernity Michael Sells urged her to recite Discussion of Catherine Brekus’ Sarah Baudelaire’s “À une passante” through to Osborn’s World: The Rise of Evangelical the final stanza: Christianity in Early America went right to the heart of historiographic writing, and Ailleurs, bien loin d’ici! trop tard! the role of empathy, criticism and moral jamais peut-être! evaluation in it (as raised by Sarah “Despite the Car j’ignore où tu fuis, tu ne sais où je vais, Hammerschlag), as well as the virtues extraordinary range Ô toi que j’eusse aimée, ô toi qui le savais! of elegant prose writing (noted by both responses as an extraordinary quality of of faculty specialization, And then, after a pause, to read her own Brekus’ book). Like many of the faculty translation from Seeing Double: books and fora over the last several years recurrent themes the conversation on Brekus’ book raised— that define, inspire, Elsewhere, very far from here! Too late! as underscored memorably by Susan Never perhaps! Schreiner—the perduring question of who haunt and embolden For I do not know where you are fleeing, sets the parameters for the conversation our work continually and you don’t know between past and present that historical where I am going, work represents: in this case about evan- emerge for discussion O you whom I could have loved, gelicalism and liberalism and the role of O you who knew it! religion and religious ideas in American and debate.” public life. These issues and the ways in Continued on page 8 AUTUMN/WINTER 2014 | NUMBER 40 Divinity News and Notes Alumnus of the Year Divinity School in 2008. After completing a Davíd Carrasco Named 2014 Alumnus of the Year two-year Lilly Residency specializing in pastoral care, Wesley became the founding Director of The Board of Trustees of the Baptist Theological Union, upon recommenda- Hyde Park Union Church’s Gilead Ministry—a ministry field education and training program of tion of the Divinity School’s Alumni Council, has named Davíd Carrasco, his own design. While directing Gilead, Wesley Thm 1970, MA 1974, PhD 1977 (History of Religions), as the Divinity also began training as a CPE Supervisor and School’s Alumnus of the Year for 2014. served as both parish pastor and hospital chaplain on the South Side of Chicago. Carrasco is the Neil Rudenstine Professor of the cities; religion and the Great Aztec Wesley’s interests in theology, storytelling, Study of Latin America at Harvard University, Temple; and the history of religions in and the philosophy of language are also with a joint appointment in the Department of Mesoamerica. He co-founded with expressed creatively through art. Wesley co- Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, the Moses founded Sun Bros Studios with his brother and and the Harvard Divinity School. A famed scholar, Mesoamerican Archive and Research is the co-author of Chinatown, a surreal graphic lecturer, writer, filmmaker, and expert on Mexican Project which today is housed at the novel that examines nihilism and the and Mesoamerican art and culture, he is a Peabody Museum of Ethnology and supernatural through the genre of magical historian of religions with a particular interest Archaeology at Harvard University. realism. The Sun Bros are currently working on in religious dimensions in human experience. Carrasco is the author of numerous Monkey—an irreverent, postmodern retelling of Of the award, Dean Mitchell said “Davíd books, including Quetzalcoatl and the Monkey King stories from Chinese literature Carrasco is known for his field-defining scholar- the Irony of Empire, Religions of Meso- scheduled for publication in 2014. ship on Meso-American religions. His dexterity america, Breaking Through Mexico’s with a range of literary, historical, visual, geo- Past: Digging the Aztecs With Eduardo graphical, cartographic, archaeological and Matos Moctezuma and Cave, City, other sources, combined with an integration and Eagle’s Nest: An Interpretive Journey tay up-to-date with news at the Divinity School: bookmark of methodological perspectives, makes him Through the Mapa de Cuauhtinchan A 2004 recipient of the Mexican Order of our website at divinity.uchicago.edu, find us on Facebook, a wonderful exemplar of interdisciplinary work No. 2, gold winner of the 2008 PubWest Book the Aztec Eagle, the highest decoration that in the history of religions.” Design Award, featured in The New York Review Mexico awards to foreign nationals, Prof. and sign up for our weekly email on public events in Swift Hall. Carrasco’s studies with Mircea Eliade, of Books. He has also served as the editor- Carrasco was also the recipient, in 2006, of the Charles H. Long, Jonathan Z. Smith and Paul in-chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Meso- Mircea Eliade Jubilee medal for contributions S Wheatley at the University of Chicago inspired american Cultures. Carrasco was the executive in the study of history of religion. Carrasco is Sun and Howell Join Staff him to work on the history of sacred cities, on co-producer of the award winning film a member of the National Academy of Arts the challenges of postcolonial ethnography and Alambrista: The Director’s Cut which put a and Sciences and in 2011 he was elected as The Divinity School is pleased to welcome theory, and on ritual violence in comparative human face on the ordeal of undocumented a member of the Academia Mexicana de la perspective. His work has included a special workers from Mexico. two familiar faces back to Swift Hall. Historia, Correspondiente de La Real de Madrid. emphasis on the religious dimensions of the John Howell (PhD 13, Religion and Literature) Latino borderlands, cultural and racial mixture has joined the staff as Coordinator of Recruit- New LinkedIn Group or mestizaje, the myth of Aztlan and La Virgen Alumnus of the Year Address ment and Admissions in the Divinity School. de Guadalupe. Professor Carrasco will deliver the “University of Chicago Divinity School” is the John is traveling across the country to meet Working with Mexican archaeologists, 2014 Alumnus of the Year address official LinkedIn Group for graduates, current prospective students, is working on our com- Carrasco has carried out more than thirty years (title TBA) on Thursday, April 24, 2014, at students, faculty, and staff of the University of munications to assist applicants to plan visits of research in the excavations and archives 4:30 p.m. in Swift Lecture Hall with a Chicago Divinity School. We invite members to and to work through the application procedures, associated with the sites of Teotihuacan and reception to follow. He will also deliver, at connect, reconnect, and network with fellow and is networking with our alumni and others Mexico-Tenochtitlan. His research has resulted noon that same day, the Spring Quarter alumni and affiliates. Our hope is that the to find the most promising students and be in publications on ritual violence and sacred Dean’s Craft of Teaching Seminar. group will function as a forum for meaningful sure they know about the Divinity School and interactions amongst persons committed to our programs. John can be reached at careful, nuanced, creative, and broad-ranging [email protected]. thought on the role(s) of religion in contem- (2011), and “Paul as Pastor in the Pastoral Wesley Sun (MDiv 08) has joined us as Director porary life. Additionally, members should feel Visiting Faculty Letters” (2013).
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