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

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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). At present, she serves as the of Field Education and Community Engagement. free to share resources as well as employment, lead author for the Pastoral Letters volume of An ordained minister in the American Baptist internship, and volunteer opportunities. Visiting faculty to the Divinity School the Wisdom Commentary series (Liturgical Churches, he received his MDiv from the represent a broad range of academic Press), which brings feminist and multicultural expertise. lenses to each of the biblical texts. Hector Honored with Teaching Award Dr. Issam Eido will be Visiting Instructor of Dan Laor is Visiting Professor of Modern Islamic Studies and Arabic in the Divinity Hebrew Literature in Near Eastern Languages for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring School during the 2013–2014 academic year. and Civilizations (NELC) and the Divinity School Dr. Eido’s research focuses on the Qur’an in for the Winter and Spring quarters of 2014. Kevin Hector, Assistant Professor of Theology and of the Philosophy of Religions, late antiquity, Hadith Studies, and Sufi and Professor Laor, Professor of Hebrew Literature received a Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Mentoring during Arabic literary and poetic studies. A 2010 PhD and the incoming Jacob and Shoshana Schrei- the Divinity School’s June 2013 diploma ceremony, as part of the University graduate of Damascus University, he also ber Chair for Contemporary Jewish Culture, convocation. The ceremony took place on Saturday, June 15, in Bond Chapel. served that institution from 2010–2012 as Tel Aviv University, is a well-known scholar of Hector studies Christian theology and the philosophy of religions. A UChicago Lecturer in the Department of Quranic Studies the contemporary Israeli novel. He is the author faculty member since 2007, he is the author of Theology Without Metaphysics and History of Islamic Sciences. In 2012 he Theological Seminary. Her research and writing of six books, and editor of another seven, on (2011) and is currently at work on a new book, tentatively titled Modernism as was a Fellow of the “Europe in the Middle East/ focus on the social contexts of early Christian modern Israeli fiction, and in particular the a Theological Problem. Middle East in Europe” Research program at literature, with a particular interest in the works of S. Y. Agnon. Professor Laor’s Winter The citation for his award, which was presented by Dean the Forum Transregionale Studien in Berlin. intersections of ancient educational practices, quarter course in NELC (“Representations of Margaret M. Mitchell, reads “With his engaging and rigorous A skilled teacher of Arabic, Dr. Eido will teach gender ideologies, and philosophical virtue- the Holocaust in Hebrew/Israeli Literature”) classroom style and incisive critical attention to students’ courses in Qur’anic Arabic while at the Uni- training. These topics are addressed in her is as Patinkin Professor through the Chicago intellectual work, joined by generous encouragement and versity of Chicago. first book,Moral Education for Women in the Center for Jewish Studies, and the Spring personalized mentoring, Kevin Hector assists each student to Pastoral and Pythagorean Letters: Philosophers course (“The Works of S. Y. Agnon”) is as Israel find his or her own voice in the disciplined conversations that Annette Bourland Huizenga (PhD 10) will join of the Household (Brill, 2013), in the Novum Studies Professor in the Divinity School in the constitute the academic study of religion.” us as a Visiting Assistant Professor of New Testamentum Supplements series. Recent _ _ area of Religion and Literature. The Faculty Award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching and Testament and Early Christian Literature this articles include: “Sophrosyneē for Women in Mentoring recognize regular, full-time faculty members in the year. She teaches a variety of New Testament the Pythagorean Texts” (2010), “Epitomizing divisions for exemplary graduate teaching. courses at the University of Dubuque Virtue: Clothing the Christian Woman’s Body”

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Faculty Awards on the Academic Study of Buddhism “I recall the real Jean: philosophical category of intentionality as a way of thinking through central issues in Bud- friendly, buoyant, tireless, dhist epistemology and philosophy of mind. inquisitive, and faithful Christian K. Wedemeyer, Associate Professor of (and faith-full)…” the History of Religions, has received the 2013 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion: cations, to stimulate conversation, argument Historical Studies from the American Academy and opportunities to learn,” said Marty, the of Religion (AAR) for his 2012 title, Making Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor Sense of Tantric Buddhism: History, Semiology, Emeritus. “No doubt many commentators on and Transgression in the Indian Traditions her work will spend their energies discussing (Columbia University Press). The Awards for her from what are called ‘conservative’ or Excellence recognize new scholarly publications ‘liberal’ stances. But to reduce her to categories that make significant contributions to the study of partisanship or ideology, would be to miss of religion, and honor books of distinctive origin- the scholar. ality, intelligence, creativity, and importance; “I recall the real Jean: friendly, buoyant, books that affect decisively how religion is tireless, inquisitive, and faithful (and faith-full) examined, understood, and interpreted. in respect to family, the republic, and the Professor Wedemeyer’s research focuses vocation of teaching and learning.” on the esoteric (Tantric) Buddhism of India and Elshtain was born in Windsor, Colorado, on Tibet. Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism chal- January 6, 1941. As a teenager, she was strick- wo Divinity School faculty whose work focuses on the academic study of lenges the idea that Tantras were marginal by en with polio, but never let her physical chal- Buddhism have recently won major book awards in recognition of their work. rethinking the nature of transgressive theories lenges stop her. “She was truly ‘abled’ as she made the rounds of conferences, lectureships The study of Buddhism enjoys a long tradition at the University of Chicago, and practices in Buddhist Tantric traditions. and any setting, including a coffee shop, where Tengaging students and faculty not only from the Divinity School, but also departments Professor Wedemeyer will be offering original ideas were honored,” Marty said. Classical Theories of Religion, Buddhism in the in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Despite her ambitious lecture schedule and Americas, and Ritual in South Asian Buddhism commitment to her research, Elshtain never The excellence of work at Chicago in the history, Toshihide Numata Book Prize in Buddhism, in upcoming quarters. religions, and literatures of South and East Asia awarded by the Center for Buddhist Studies neglected her students or her teaching duties, provides a rich contextual framework for in- at the University of California, Berkeley according to Prof. Stephen Meredith, who co-taught several courses with Elshtain and depth consideration of particular developments for his 2012 title, Brains, Buddhas, and remembered her “broad and imaginative” in the Buddhist world, and the University’s Believing: The Problem of Intentionality approach to her work. strong commitment to interdisciplinary scholar- in Classical Buddhist and Cognitive- “She was a brilliant teacher who seemed ship broadens the horizons for work in the area. Scientific Philosophy of Mind. The “Toshi” IN MEMORIAM | 1941–2013 Jean Beth Elshtain to know everything about everything,” said Prize is awarded on an annual basis to We are pleased to announce that Professors Meredith, Professor in Pathology, Biochemistry, an outstanding book in any area of Daniel A. Arnold and Christian K. Wedemeyer ean Bethke Elshtain, one of the nation’s most prominent and provocative Molecular Biology and the College, and associ- Buddhist studies. have recently been recognized for their ate faculty in the Divinity School. “She cannot Professor Arnold comparatively and thinkers on religion, political philosophy, and ethics, died Sunday, August scholarly publications, which focus on very be replaced.” constructively engages Indian Buddhism, 11, 2013. She was 72. Elshtain was the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor different aspects of the study of Buddhism. Elshtain was a fellow of the American with a focus on integrating it into the larger J of Social and Political Ethics in the Divinity School, Political Science, and Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Guggenheim Daniel A. Arnold, Associate Professor of the tradition of Indian Philosophy. Brains, Fellow and fellow at the Bellagio Center of the Philosophy of Religions, has received the Buddhas, and Believing centers on the the Committee on International Relations at the University of Chicago. Rockefeller Foundation; holder of the Maguire An agile and extraordinarily prolific scholar, her work she always fought on behalf of these Chair in Ethics at the Library of Congress; and Elshtain’s work touched on issues ranging from mundane, quotidian interests.” a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in terrorism to bioethics to feminism. She also Schweiker said many of these themes came Princeton, New Jersey, where she also served syllabus for a course of his own Prize for Excellence lectured across the world on these topics in together in Elshtain’s work on sovereignty, on the board of trustees. She was a Phi Beta design entitled, “Does God an effort to bring the work of the academy to which was the topic of her 2005–2006 Gifford Kappa Lecturer, and in 2002, she received the in Teaching Exist?,” which Elgendy is again a wider public. Lectures, “Sovereign God, Sovereign State, Goodnow Award, the highest award bestowed teaching this fall at the request “Jean Bethke Elshtain was a formidable Sovereign Self.” by the American Political Science Association Last spring, Rick Elgendy, PhD of Lake Forest College. As he intellectual presence in the academy and in Elshtain was the author of many other influ- for distinguished service to the profession. She candidate in Theology, was named the says concerning his teaching American public life,” said Margaret M. Mitch- ential works, including Women and War, an served on the boards of the National Humani- inaugural recipient of the Divinity philosophy, “I teach in order to ell, Dean and Shailer M. Mathews Professor of exploration of the traditional status of women ties Center and the National Endowment for School Prize for Excellence in Teaching. cultivate informed, thoughtful New Testament and Early Christian Literature. as noncombatants; Augustine and the Limits of Democracy, and was a member of the Council reflection on religious, parti- “Her arrival at the Divinity School in 1995 came Politics, which applies Augustinian thought to of the National Endowment for the Humanities The prize, developed as part of the Craft of cularly Christian, conviction and on the heels of the publication of Democracy on contemporary politics and society; and Just War and the Scholars Council of the Library of Teaching in the Academic Study of Religion and action. Because religious com- Trial, which was and remains a major statement Against Terror, which made a vigorous and Congress. juried by the Divinity School’s Task Force on mitments are often seen as of the crucial dimension of morality in American widely discussed moral argument for greater Elshtain is survived by her husband Errol; Teaching, seeks to recognize and encourage intensely personal, or simply public discourse. We in the Divinity School and American military engagement abroad. her four children, Sheri, Heidi, Jenny and Eric; the superior preparation of Divinity School non-rational, or merely vesti- the University will miss Jean greatly.” She is also the author of Public Man, Private and her grandchildren, JoAnn Paulette Welch; doctoral students for careers in teaching. The gial—even by those who hold Elshtain’s work was characterized by a Woman: Women in Social and Political Thought; Robert Paul Bethke, Christopher Matthew award is given annually on the basis of self- them—most students who enter combination of “hard-nosed realism and Meditations on Modern Political Thought; Welch and Christiane Lind Elshtain. nomination and the evaluation of a candidate’s my classroom lack the ability to a very humane heart,” said her close friend Democracy on Trial; Real Politics: At the Center Elshtain’s work was the subject of a four- teaching portfolio, a collection of documents engage with religion critically and fruitfully. But for the 2014 award will be April 25, 2014; and colleague William Schweiker, the Edward of Everyday Life; Who are We? Critical Reflec- part conference series at the Divinity School, that communicates the applicant’s teaching religion is simply too important to be analyzed please see the Craft of Teaching website for L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor tions, Hopeful Possibilities; and Jane Addams “The Engaged Mind,” which began in 2010. philosophy and experience. only by specialists or ecclesiastics: informed, additional details. of Theological Ethics. and the Dream of American Democracy. The final conference took place on October 17 Elgendy has served as a teaching assistant thoughtful citizenship requires from all of us “She was suspicious of regimes of power, Although Elshtain’s colleagues did not and 18, 2013, and provided an opportunity in the Divinity School, was the Border Crossing some facility with the methods and traditions For more information and she was always concerned with political always share her views, she remained a trusted for the UChicago community to come together Teaching Fellow for the Senior Ministry Thesis of religious thought.” Contact Brandon Cline, Program Coordinator and social systems that wanted to remake interlocutor whose challenging questions in celebration of Elshtain’s life and work. Seminar, and has taught three stand-alone All Divinity School students who have com- of the Craft of Teaching, with questions or human life without respect for our finitude,” always helped to strengthen their work, accord- Tributes from the memorial service held on courses at Lake Forest College in Lake Forest, pleted the Craft of Teaching Program are eligible comments about the program at bdcline@ Schweiker said. “She was very attuned to the ing to Prof. Martin E. Marty. October 17th will be published in our journal, Illinois. His award-winning dossier included a to apply for the prize. The application deadline uchicago.edu needs and goods of everyday life, and through “She loved to provoke and, through provo- Criterion.

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Pick Receives Bishko Prize American religious history, is the author of Their gift will allow the Divinity School to train Strangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching in its students to become leaders in pedagogy The Association for Spanish and Portuguese America, 1740–1845, which won the Frank across the disciplines that make up the field of Historical Studies has awarded the 2012 and Elizabeth Brewer Prize (for the best first religious studies.” Bishko Prize award for the best article in book on the history of Christianity) from Mr. Colman added, “The Divinity School has Iberian history to Dr. Lucy K. Pick, Director of The American Society of Church History, and long been regarded as the first without equal as an institution that trains teachers in the academic Undergraduate Studies and Senior Lecturer Sarah Osborn’s World: The Rise of Evangelical study of religion. Jane and I are very excited about in the History of Christianity, for her article Christianity in Early America (Yale University supporting the Craft of Teaching program that “Sacred Queens and Warrior Kings in the Press, 2013), a book about the early evangelical builds on this tradition of excellence to produce Royal Portraits of the Liber Testamentorum movement based on an eighteenth-century new generations of outstanding leaders.” of Oviedo,” Viator 42 No. 2 (2011). The woman’s manuscript diaries. She is also the Over the decades, the University of Chicago Association promotes interest in the scholarly editor of The Religious History of American Divinity School has consistently been the foremost study of Spain and Portugal through history Women: Reimagining the Past, a collection of teacher of teachers in the academic study of and related disciplines. Catherine A. Brekus awarded essays that asks how women’s history changes religion, placing more of its graduates in a wide Aldersgate Prize our understanding of American religion, and the coeditor (with W. Clark Gilpin) of American range of departments of religious studies across Christianities: A History of Dominance and the country than any of its peers. These institutions Catherine A. Brekus, Professor of Religions in include liberal arts colleges, research universities, America and the History of Christianity at the Diversity, an introduction to the multiple forms of Christian expression in the United States. DONOR NEWS state universities, seminaries, and schools of Divinity School, has been awarded the 2013 theology. Divinity School alumni also have signifi- John Wesley Honors College of Indiana Wesleyan She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Henry Luce III Faculty Fellowship in cant impact on higher education today as college University’s Aldersgate Prize for her book presidents, deans of schools and divisions and Theology and a John Simon Guggenheim Sarah Osborn’s World: The Rise of Evangelical department heads. The Craft of Teaching program Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Christianity In Early America. John and Jane Colman make gift of $900K to endow seeks to equip students for their full array of The Aldersgate Prize for Christian Scholarship the Craft of Teaching Program potential leadership roles as educators, mentors, recognizes a published book’s ability to reflect institutional leaders and public intellectuals. the highest ideals of Christian scholarship, One of the core elements of the program is the ohn and Jane Colman, lifetime Chicagoans involved with many charitable organi- demonstrating how rigorous Christian thought Dean’s quarterly Craft of Teaching Seminar. Each is brought to bear on scholarly engagement. zations and long-time friends of the University of Chicago Divinity School, have quarter a distinguished alumnus/a or other accom- Professor Brekus, a scholar and teacher of made a gift of $900,000 to support leadership initiatives at the School. Margaret plished educator, each representing a different J type of educational institution and academic M. Mitchell, Dean of the Divinity School and Shailer Mathews Professor of New specialization, is invited by the Dean to lead a Testament and Early Christian Literature, announced the gift at the autumn meeting seminar addressing the challenges of teaching of the Visiting Committee to the Divinity School on Tuesday, October 29, 2013. religion in their particular academic context, while also speaking concretely about a course they have The Colmans’ gift, the largest to the School from religion, so this gift to endow the Craft of Teaching designed and taught. These opportunities for an individual donor in the past ten years, will is intended to help scholars of religion develop students to connect with colleagues and to be- endow the Craft of Teaching in the Academic leadership skills—to be put to use in their class- come part of supportive, mentoring networks are Study of Religion, an innovative new program rooms, institutions, and broader communities.” essential parts of the Craft of Teaching program. William Schweiker receives that the Divinity School inaugurated in 2011. The Marty Center Dissertation Seminar Brandon Cline, PhD candidate in New Testa- honorary doctorate from The Craft of Teaching Program is the School’s provides the opportunity for a small cohort of ment and Early Christian Literature and Coordina- unique pedagogical curriculum that seamlessly advanced doctoral students to work together for tor of the Craft of Teaching Program, observed Uppsala University integrates the commitment to preparing outstand- a year to complete their dissertations in some that “at its heart the Craft of Teaching is about ing educators in the field of religious studies aspect of the academic study of religion, at the preparing Divinity School graduates to make an William Schweiker, the Edward L. Ryerson with the experience of rigorous graduate study same time learning how to translate their special- immediate and positive contribution to institutions Distinguished Service Professor of Theological in religion at Swift Hall. Through a year-round ized research knowledge for broader publics. of higher learning, training them to bring leader- Ethics and the Director of the Martin Marty program of seminars and workshops, the program The Craft of Teaching Program is available to a ship, insight, and clarity to the public conversa- Center for the Advanced Study of Religion at sustains a vigorous conversation on pedagogy in broad spectrum of students across the Divinity tion on religion one class, one department, and The Divinity School, was awarded an honorary the study of religion both within and across all School’s doctoral and master’s programs, and one institution at a time. Most students are at doctorate from the Faculty of Theology at the Divinity School’s diverse areas of study and to students across the larger university, thereby Swift because our lives were transformed at some Uppsala University at a ceremony January 24, focuses on preparing students to be professional modeling to the broader academic community point by outstanding and thoughtful teaching— 2014, in Uppsala, Sweden. courses in Hinduism cover a broad spectrum leaders in the academy and broader society. innovative ways of developing leadership skills. by teachers who could inspire and lead their Wendy Doniger Named William Schweiker’s scholarship and teach- that, in addition to mythology, considers Dean Mitchell stated, “We are profoundly Both the Marty Center Dissertation Seminar and students to new understanding and abilities. 2015 Haskins Prize Lecturer ing engage theological and ethical questions literature, law, gender, and zoology. She has grateful to the Colmans for this extraordinary gift the Craft of Teaching program give students tools Young pedagogues like us long to make that attentive to global dynamics, comparative published over thirty books, including The to endow the Craft of Teaching at the Divinity to foster intelligent public discussion of religion kind of difference, but to get there we need the Wendy Doniger, the Mircea Eliade Distin- religious ethics, the history of ethics, and School. There is no comparable program anywhere with a wide range of constituencies. In its first full support of a robust program that brings together guished Service Professor of the History of Bedtrick; The Hindus: An Alternative History; hermeneutical philosophy. A frequent lecturer in higher education, and the Colmans’ vision for year, the Craft of Teaching program sponsored over the resources and experience of our faculty, Religions in the Divinity School, also in the and On Hinduism; three Penguin Classics and visiting professor at universities around training scholar-leaders in the academic study 22 dedicated events with 124 Divinity School alums, and peers. The excitement and energy Department of South Asian Languages and translations; and a new translation of the the the world, he has been deeply involved in of religion puts this ground-breaking initiative students from all degree programs participating around the Craft of Teaching are evidence that Civilizations, the Committee on Social Kamasutra (with Sudhir Kakar). In progress collaborative international projects. His books on a solid foundation and ensures that it will in at least one of those programs;15 Divinity the program is meeting that need and is already Thought, has been named the 2015 Charles are Hinduism, for the Norton Anthology of include Theological Ethics and Global Dyna- flourish into the future, benefiting generations School faculty and 18 alumni gave presentations having an appreciable impact on students’ Homer Haskins Prize Lecturer by the Ameri- World Religions (2014); Faking It: Narratives mics: In the Time of Many Worlds (2004); of students to come.” on some aspect of the art of teaching, along with development as teacher-scholars.” can Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). of Circular Jewelry and Clever Women; Skep- Religion and the Human Future: An Essay in This is John and Jane Colman’s second major other outstanding educators. John Colman joined the Divinity School’s Named for the first chairman of ACLS (1920- ticism in the Shastras, or: The Manipulation of Theological Humanism (2008, with David E. gift in seven years to support leadership initiatives Lucy Pick, Director of Undergraduate Studies Visiting Committee in the 1970s and has been a 26), the Haskins Prize Lecture series is en- Religion for Politics and Pleasure in Ancient Klemm); and, most recently, Dust that Breathes: at the Divinity School. In 2006, they endowed and Senior Lecturer in the History of Christianity member of the Martin Marty Center’s Advisory titled “A Life of Learning” and celebrates India (the 2014 Terry Lectures at Yale); and a Christian Faith and the New Humanisms (2010). the Marty Center Dissertation Seminar with a and the College, is one of the faculty members Board since the center was founded in 1988. Re- scholarly careers of distinctive importance. novel, Horses for Lovers, Dogs for Husbands. His present research is for a book on ethics gift of $750,000. Their gift inspired $1.5 million serving on the School’s Teaching Task Force that flecting on their gifts to the School, he observed, Among previous honors, Professor Doni- Professor Doniger will deliver her and the integrity of life. Among previous honors, in matching funds from alumni and friends in has been at work since 2010. This year, she is “We believe that developing new generations of ger has received the American Academy of Haskins Lecture at the 2015 ACLS Annual Professor Schweiker has been Mercator Professor response to the Colmans’ challenge. In reflecting co-leading the Marty Center Dissertation Seminar. leaders is a crucial role for higher education and Religion’s Martin E. Marty Award for the Meeting in Philadelphia. Wendy Doniger’s at Heidelberg University (2012), a Phi Beta on their decision to endow the Craft of Teaching “The Marty Center Dissertation Seminar, which essential for the continued well-being of our research and teaching interests revolve Public Understanding of Religion, the South Kappa Lecturer (2011–2012), and, in 2012, program, John Colman noted that the two gifts has been so generously supported by the Colmans society. What better place than the Divinity around two basic areas, Hinduism and my- Asian Literary Association’s Distinguished recipient of the University of Chicago Faculty flow from one overarching philanthropic goal. over the years, has always been a cornerstone of School to identify and train leaders who will thology. Her courses in mythology address Scholar Award, and, in 2012, the University Award for Graduate Teaching and Mentoring. “Just as our first gift to establish the Marty Center the Divinity School’s conversations on pedagogy. make a difference in their communities?” themes in cross-cultural expanses, such as of Chicago’s Faculty Award for Excellence in Dissertation Fellowships was about recruiting Thanks once again to the Colmans, the Craft of death, dreams, evil, horses, and women; her Graduate Teaching and Mentoring. and training those who have the best prospects Teaching program will now be able to build on and for becoming leaders in the academic study of greatly expand the work begun in the Seminar.

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Prizes and Fellowships

“...the role of the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship scholar is not to shield the Summer 2013 subject (religion) from Alison Tyer Davis criticism, nor to paraphrase Sarah Heiden Gomer Andrew Karl Kunze what religious actors say, Karl Thomas Schmid but to translate it.” Academic Year Hannah Gray Glasson Sarah Heiken Gomer Andrew Karl Kunze Philosophy of Mind sets up a philosophical Karl Thomas Schmid conversation between contemporary philoso- Darcie Marilyn phers of mind and medieval Buddhist thinkers, Price-Wallace in particular on the issue of whether mental Cornelia Wolf Wilson events can or cannot be reduced to physical John Gray Rhind Award events. He argues that one should be wary of the enthusiasm with which Buddhism is often Krista Michelle Kutz taken to be confirmatory of cognitive scientific The Fall, the Divinity School enrolled 74 Alan Jay Levinovitz Christopher Harting Hanley Celeste Grace Kennel-Shank Groff theories of religion. Martha Nussbaum admired entering degree candidates: 39 MA, 11 MDiv, “The Concept of Toy—At Miles Spencer Hopgood Celeste Grace the philosophical sophistication of Arnold’s 4 AMRS, and 20 PhD. Play with the Zhuangzi” William Rainey Harper strategically naming which is which. Willemien work, not only in the accounts of modern and Kennel-Shank Groff Dissertation Fellowship Continued from the front cover David Andrew Newheiser medieval thinkers, but in establishing philo- College Graduates in Eric Gurevitch, “How to Krista Michelle Kutz Andrew Keith Rocklin Otten fully agreed with Lincoln’s critique of the “Hope in the Unforeseeable Richard Strier (who recently gave a Wednesday sophical commitments of his own. She under- Religious Studies Destroy Sacred Things: An Tessa Sylvia McBrayer AAR and of the “(Un)discipline of Religious God” Mellon Humanities lunch talk addressing the question, “Does bad stands his work to establish a fresh method- 2012–2013 Essay on Deconsecration Joshua Daniel Oxley Studies” (the title of Lincoln’s final chapter) but Dissertation Fellowship theology make for bad poetry?”—which he ological paradigm, in that it is not seeking to and Changes in Status” Benjamin Jacob Schonthal Nadia Mary Stefko took exception to its opening sentence, which Thirteen students Joy Cecile Brennan answered in the affirmative) traced the roots of prove historical influence, or to engage in either (Lincoln) “Ruling Religion: Buddhism, William Michael Storm draws a hard and fast line between the completed fourth-year BA The Unrepentant Renaissance from Petrarch to cross-cultural parallelism or condescending Politics and Law in Contem- Adam Caperton Varner medieval and the modern university, particu- papers in Religious Studies Calvin Krogh, “Optimism, Provost Dissertation Shakespeare to Milton in his teaching over the assimilation, but instead a work of philosophy porary Sri Lanka” Peter Ward Youngblood larly on the place of religion and especially this year, led by the BA Fear, and Renewal: Political Fellowship last two decades, including sustained study of of religion that thinks through the issues on reason in each; if theologians rely only on faith paper preceptor, John Perspectives on Japan from Alain-Rene Epp Weaver MA Ayse Polat Renaissance emotions (such as praise of anger) the terms of each and in dialogue with the (without critical analytical skills and doubt, Howell. They and their American Protestant Mission- “Mapping Return: Christine Brook Anderson and a seminar on seduction. Michael Murrin other in order both to understand and to seek Carnegie Endowment hesitation, reticence and modesty), Otten said, topics are (advisers’ names ary Writings, 1926–1959” Palestinean Dispossession with elegant quotations from memory pointed to establish the conditions for entailment of PhD Junior Fellows then they don’t belong in the academy, either follow in brackets): (Ketelaar) and Political Theologies to the classical traditions at work in Shake- positions to be taken on such issues in the Shatha Khalid Almutawa Alexandra Zirkle Sarah medieval or modern. Jonathan Z. Smith of Exile” Derek Ayeh, “Physicians’ Selene Millan, “The Antonia Michelle Daymond speare’s contesting of conventional morality registered his admiration for the quality of contemporary world. Chicago Center for Jewish Decisions in End of Life ‘Inconsolable Longing’ for Jeffrey Dean Jay and Milton’s stance against humility, while Lincoln’s essays, skill at fashioning compari- Alireza Doostdar brought the eye of an Thomas Edward Studies Award Care: How Religion Affects the Divine: The Relation- Ruchama Jerusha Clark Gilpin (after calling on the audience to sons and ingenuity in creating allies while anthropologist who studies Islam to this argu- Zebrowski III Jessica Hope Andruss the Physician’s Decision to ship Between Man and God Johnston-Bloom “repent!”) proposed that the book models the simultaneously distancing oneself from others. ment, and asked why, even given Arnold’s view “Virtue After God: Theology Joshua Andrew Connor Continue Life-Saving According to C.S. Lewis” Seth Perry reciprocal relationship between the Renais- This led him to the rhetoric of self- and other- of the irreducibility of mental phenomena to in Alasdair Macintyre’s Ruchama Jerusha sance and Reformation, as both were impatient efficient causation, the brain event thus under- Technologies” (Curlin) (Rosengarten) Secular Moral Theory” persuasion in the work, accepting with Skinner Summer 2013 Johnston-Bloom with false modesty and celebrated the indivi- and Rorty the distinction between rhetoric, stood prioritizes reason rather than intention. Caroline Brander, “Making Emily Minehart, “Theatre Alexandra Kathryn Zirkle Winter 2013 dual, while also holding out the view that He asked, is it the case that reasoning is always Meaning from Suffering: A of the Faith: Performing MDiv which invites a conversation, and logic, which Francois Furet Travel Grant madness (or perhaps noble anger) may be the temporally or logically prior to intention? McKinna Rae Daugherty acquiesces. Journey into the Pain Poetry the Spanish Auto da Fe” MDiv Christian Lewis Williams Yuliya Aleksandrovna price that must be paid for a certain kind of It was here that Smith articulated the central Furthermore, if Arnold is right that it is perilous of Religious Individuals (Schreiner) Mary Beth Hwang wisdom. Strier (addressing Murrin’s concern for religious studies to leave belief out of Tsutserova commonality that unites his and Lincoln’s Suffering from Chronic MA that he had ignored the Middle Ages too much consideration (as Doostdar agrees), that still Ed Powell, “In Defense MA work—the assumption that the role of the Pain” (Boyd) Matthew William Arck Fuerstenberg Fellowship in the book) replied: “if Thomas Aquinas could leaves the question of what “belief” consists of Occasionalism: The Doaa Mansour scholar is not to shield the subject (religion) Michael Grossman Ezra Blaustein Elisa Cariño,“(Indonga Misunderstood Legacy of Mohamed Bayumi not reconcile (Aristotelian) magnanimity in; an anthropological concept of belief, he Yonatan Tzvi Shemesh from criticism, nor to paraphrase what religious Ziwele) The Walls Have Nicholas Malebranche” Christina Kathryn Llanes (megalopsychia) with humility (tapeinophro- argued, cannot be reduced or merely anchored Richard Daniel Cunningham actors say, but to translate it. Where they differ, Come into Collision: (Hector) Aniel Michael Mundra Fulbright Research sune) no one could! (since, he said, Thomas to the cognitive, but is also a social and Dina Yehia Mahmoud Smith said, is in the modes of that transla- The Nexus Between Law, Ryan G. Tobler Grant/Bundes-Exzellenz- knew his Aristotle and he was the smartest material practice. Arnold concluded the session Salaheldin Mostafa tion, Lincoln’s being more in the language of Religion, and Transnational Kashira Turner, “The Stipendium person in the world). with some reflections about what constitutes David J. Scroggins PhD interests, contexts and subtexts, and his own Justice” (Hopkins) Hymns of Salvation: The Samual Hayim Brody Benjamin Charles Linquist Methodological reflections on the study of according to his “own more intellectualist progress in philosophy, arguing that philoso- Spread of the Lutheran PhD Omar Castro, “United “This Pathless Hour: religion are never far from any of these fora. tendencies” that do translation via comparison phy is a history of “experiments,” whereby Reformation in Nuremberg Joshua Leonard Daniel Fulbright IEE US Student Revisionists” (Brekus) Messianism, Anarchism, Program Bruce Lincoln began discussion of his Gods with respect to a third term that stands outside thinkers follow through the entitlements of through Song, 1520– “Transforming Faith: H. Zionism, and Martin and Demons, Priests and Scholars: Critical of the text at hand. Smith concluded by posing their views. The role of scholarship is to add to 1525” (Schreiner) Richard Niebuhr and Paolo Alexander Ong Hsu Rachel Crosby, Buber’s Theopolitics Explorations in the History of Religions with the the question of what this common view of the this history of experiments, he concluded. Freire on Moral Education” “Problematizing Religious Reconsidered” The Tikva Frymer-Kensky plaint (reflected in the frame of the book) that enterprise should mean for pedagogy in the The winter quarter included a Dean’s Forum Freedom: Gender, Authority, Convocations Memorial Prize Elizabeth Ann Palmer the academic study of religion has systemati- academic study of religion. on Christian K. Wedemeyer’s Making Sense and Pluralims at Jerusalem’s Darnell Maurice Charles Fall 2012 “Abraham I Cannot Liane Marquis cally squandered its opportunity with the most Dan Arnold’s Buddhas, Brains, and of Tantric Buddhism: History, Semiology, and Western Wall” (Mendes- “Heresy, Treason, and Royal Understand: Anagogy in The Milo P. Jewett Prize fascinating materials. Each of the medial Believing: The Problem of Intentionality in Transgression in the Indian Traditions, with Flohr) MDiv Prerogative: Henry VIII and Luther’s and Kierkegaard’s chapters engaged such inherently interesting Classical Buddhist and Cognitive-Scientific responses by Jeffrey Stackert and Brook Ziporyn. Alexis Katya Vaugn the Plenitude of Power” Kelli Anne Gardner material, with the common thread being the You will be able to access video of this, and all Emma Cueto, “Towards the Readings of Genesis 22” MA Wilson Teaching Fellowship theme of power, to which, Lincoln said, he Dean’s Forums (and most Wednesday lunch Universal: Billy Graham and John William Cheairs Roma Giannina Rowland Spring 2013 Jessica Hope Andruss never tires from returning. He (and both presentations) henceforward on our website Catholics in the 1950s and Howell 1960s” (Brekus) “Civil War Literature and Tarick Fathi Elgendy respondents) mentioned the classic essay on “Methodological under “Wednesdays in Swift Hall.” You can PhD MDiv the Prospect of America” “In Praise of the Chaotic” that recapitulates a reflections on the study of also sign up to be notified via email when new Kate Davidson, “Love Ye Andres Tupac Cruz Jeffrey Alan Challberg debate he witnessed as a student at Chicago content is available. Therefore the Stranger: The “Towards the Death of Ruth E. Coffman Michael Richard Turner between Mircea Eliade and Jonathan Z. Smith religion are never far from Please join us when you can on a virtual National Association of Intention: Walter Christopher D. Elderkin “Does the Laborer Deserve to on which came first—order or chaos—and Wednesday. Evangelicals and the Benjamin’s Epistemological Nina Claire Giviyan-Kermani be Paid? The Place of Desert resolved the issue in his own way by insisting any of these fora.” Debate over Immigration and Epistemo-critical Thandiwe Amy in a Christian Conception of on the role of the tertium quid, power, in Margaret M. Mitchell, Dean Reform” (Brekus) Writings, 1916–1925” Helen Gobledale Distributive Justice”

8 CIRCA AUTUMN/WINTERAUTUMN 20132014 | 9 An Interview with Brook A. Ziporyn 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 “I tend to see both the philology and the Center sustained dialogue with the world outside the academy. In all of philosophy in terms of this its projects, the Center aims to serve as a robust circulatory system larger impulse, and thus that strengthens, deepens, and extends scholarly inquiry by moving News and it through the deliberating bodies of the students, faculty, and as two wings of the same enterprise.” Events public. — William Schweiker, Director of the Marty Center good in its own right, an inherent good—per- haps even The Good. Maybe that’s overstated; in any case, for many years I couldn’t think of any way I’d rather spend my time than experi- Marty Center Fellows 2013 –2014 menting with new morphs of mind by working through ancient Chinese texts. On the other Sunit Singh — Anthropology and side of the endeavor, as a thinker, I try to Sociology of Religion devise methods to undo my own crimps of experiencing, the snags in my awareness that “Echoes of Freedom: The Crisis of Liberal close it off to further morphings of both modes Imperalism in Punjab, 1905–1929” and objects of experience (i.e., subjective rook A. Ziporyn is Professor of Chinese Religion, Philosophy, and Romulus Stefanut — Biblical Studies states and range of information), to enable this “The Therapeutae as Philo’s Paradigm for Bios Comparative Thought. discusses returning to campus a faculty member expansion of the ability-to-experience—maybe Theoretikos. An Inter-textual Reading of Philo’s and his current work. nowadays we’d say the addition of new apps De vita contemplativa” to the experiencing-apparatus. That expansion Michelle Urberg — Music B seems to motivate me more fundamentally than CIRCA: You did your undergraduate studies at “The New Vineyard: Origins, Development, and the goal of attaining a kind of “knowledge” that the University of Chicago. What do you look Flourishing of Birgittine Musico-Devotional forward to most in your new role as faculty? maps a static, pre-existing or accumulatable “truth” or “reality” or “fact”—or, I might argue, Practices (c. 1350–1595)” these terms are all really just misleadingly hypo- ZIPORYN: It’s definitely a little strange, return- Senior Fellows ing after so many years to experience the U of C statizing metaphors for one aspect of this pro- cess of expanding and uncrimping the capacity from the other end of the telescope. I suppose We welcome two Senior Fellows for the for awareness. Anyway, I tend to see both the there is some danger that, just by staggering academic year. philology and the philosophy in terms of this through the same physical space, I’ll constantly Martin Marty Center Matthijs den Dulk — Biblical Studies larger impulse, and thus as two wings of the Loren Lybarger (PhD 02), is Associate Professor be activating the unsuspected old ghosts, “Rhetoric of Heresy: Anti-Sophistic Polemic same enterprise. Junior Fellows of Classics and World Religions, University of specters of my former undergraduate self, from Paul to Irenaeus” Ohio, Athens. His research project, Secularism which could well be scattered around the ter- The Marty Center, continuing its emphasis on CIRCA: What are you working on now? Peter Erickson — Germanic Studies and the Religious Return among Palestinians rain like so many Proustian landmines. But this global interactions and aspects of religion, will “Religious Conversion in the Late German in Chicago, explores the impact of religious is also a source of excitement, a chance for have fourteen dissertation (junior) fellows and ZIPORYN: I have two big projects. One is a kind Enlightenment” revitalization on Palestinian immigrant renewed contact with the origins of my various two senior fellows in the upcoming year. of genre-experiment which is also probably the identities in Chicago. preoccupations in their rawest and least dis- This year’s Marty Center dissertation seminar Timothy Hiller — Theology most purely speculative, as opposed to directly guised forms, to catch the sprouting of my is being offered in two sections, one led by “How Long, O Lord”: Sin, Suffering, and Betty Bayer, Professor of Women’s Studies expository, work I’ve done since Being and present identity retrospectively-in-the-act, as Lucy K. Pick, Director of Undergraduate Studies the Structure of Faith in Martin Luther and at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, will Ambiguity. It’s tentatively titled Death Time it were, but with expanded perspective. in Religion and Senior Lecturer, and the other H. Richard Niebuhr” be working on a project entitled “Revelation Perception—naming some of the more interest- I’m looking forward very much to working by William Schweiker, The Edward L. Ryerson or Revolution? Cognitive Dissonance and ing experiments in thinking about time, in lit- Alisha Jones — Music with students on close readings of Chinese Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Persistent Longing in an Age Psychological.” erature as well as in philosophical and religious “We Are A Peculiar People”: Musical Buddhist and Daoist and Confucian writings, I got interested in Chinese texts because Ethics and Director of the Martin Marty Center It entails a monograph-length history of the works, trying to think about finitude of lived time Masculinities, Black Queer Identity and hopefully in many cases having an opportunity they seemed to provide me with a way to think for the Advanced Study of Religion. The seminar renowned 1956 book When Prophecy Fails by as simultaneously and projectively and retro- Gendered Gospel Performance” to explore in the original language the nuances lots of new and different thoughts, to experi- is designed to advance interdisciplinary research social psychologists Leon Festinger, Henry spectively infinitely re-experiencable and differ- Monica Mercado — History of Christianity and ambiguities of the texts with all their intri- ence the world through a greater number of in all areas of teaching. Reicken and Stanley Schachter and its place ently experiencable, encompassing indefinitely cacy, in the full glory of their uncertainty. But, if alternate lenses, which means having access to “Women and the Word: Gender, Print, and in the longer and larger history of debate many alternate self-recontextualizations and it weren’t my job, I would probably pay for the an expanded repertoire of modes of awareness. Junior Fellows Catholic Identity in 19th-Century America” amongst religion, psychology, spirituality I liked and needed the process of straining to orders, the copresence of multiple identities in privilege of teaching—it’s the only time I can Nathan H. Phillips — Theology and science on the soul or psyche. make sense of those texts, philologically and and as each finite thing. Jessica Andruss — History of Judaism pursue a topic down to the last detail of convo- “The Will to Truth: Philosophy and the semantically and doctrinally, which forces a The other is a comparative monograph try- “Theology and Exegesis in the Arabic Fellows will participate in the Marty Center lution while also feeling that I’m not importun- Phenomenological Turn from Nietzsche, stretching of the mind toward new possible ing to ferret out precisely what is going on in Lamentations Commentary of Salmon ben Seminar and deliver a symposium on their work ing upon someone’s patience. Husserl, and Heidegger” forms of coherence, an overcoming of ingrained those forms of nontheistic, pantheistic, atheis- Yeruhim, Tenth-Century Karaite of Jerusalem” while in residence. Prof. Lybarger’s symposium failures of imagination in philosophical and tic and anti-theistic thinking which are also, Kyle Rader — Theology took place on March 6, 2014, Prof. Bayer’s will CIRCA: You have written several monographs Paul Chang — History of Christianity in a specific sense, deeply religious, the nature “Learning to Love: The Theological and be on May 15, 2014, in the Swift Hall Common and have translated Chinese texts. Could you religious matters. I tend to think of this as a “Christ and the Church: Watchman Nee, of atheistic religious experience—while also Ascetic Context of Biblical Exegesis” Room. Watch our website for details. tell us a bit about the relationship between establishing that such a thing exists and is Witness Lee, and a Contribution to the Christian these areas of your academic work? Tradition from Modern China” “I would probably pay important. It will hopefully end up covering Spinoza, Nietzsche, Bataille, along with a few Brandon Cline — New Testament and Early ZIPORYN: I have these two sides to my writings: for the privilege of surprise guests from German idealism, on the Christian Literature Read more about on the one hand, a lot of close work with European side; on the Indian side, early Bud- “Petition and Propaganda in Ancient Rome: the Marty Center Fellows obscure and sometimes very tricky texts, and teaching —it’s the only time dhism, Nagarjuna and then the apparently Justin’s Apologies in their Roman Imperial on the other hand a strong interest in construc- Read about what the fellows hope to wildly polytheistic forms of Mahayana Bud- Context” tive theoretical work. I would count it a great I can pursue a topic down accomplish during their year as a dhism; and in China, the early Daoists, Guo success if both sides of the endeavor managed Joshua Connor — Religious Ethics Martin Marty Center by visiting our to the last detail of Xiang and again Tiantai Buddhism. to coexist with and nourish the other side—a “Fragments of the Soul: Eros and Askesis in website at divinity.uchicago.edu. balanced partnership between each role and convolution...” Rosenzweig, Weil and Contemporary its own internal evil twin. Neuropsychiatric Culture”

10 CIRCA AUTUMN/WINTER 2014 | 11 Ministry Program Update

“…these bold new vocations are most often nourished and launched from the midst of historic communities of faith… ”

gifts for service. I was surrounded by folks who raised me, mentored me, loved me, and challenged me. As everyone gathered around to lay their hands on me, I truly felt surrounded by a great cloud of witnesses.” Another spoke of Divinity School Honor Roll that same moment in the ordination liturgy: “As my father (also a pastor) said, ‘Having God’s and a congregation’s hands upon one is not to be taken lightly.’ It is not, but while neither light he Divinity School benefits from the generous support of alumni, friends, and organizations. nor to be taken lightly, these hands and hearts The Dean, the faculty, and the students of the Divinity School extend their sincere thanks to all also lifted me up before and during my ordination, New faces, familiar places in ministry who contributed cash gifts during the 2012–2013 fiscal year.(July 1, 2012–June 30, 2013) and I know they will continue to do so.” T ecent articles in this publication have reported on the evolving practice Cynthia Gano Lindner, Director of Ministry The Dean’s Circle Shirley Jackson Eri B. Hulbert Emery A. Percell Henry O. Hardy of ministry in these times of rapid cultural change and diversification. Studies $25,000+ Case Fellows Fellows August H. Ramhorst Estate of Gordon E. $5,000–$9,999 $1,000–$2,499 John W. Reed Jackson Trust Estate of Current students and recent alums engage ministry in some surprising James T. Rhind * and Susan B. Johnson and Charles Joseph Adams Stephen S. Bowen and Abbott Laboratories Laura Rhind Dennis P. Johnson Rcontexts—managing an organic farm, for example; organizing theological Association of Joan Bowen Employee Giving Campaign Victoria Ries Kent D. Kirby Theological Schools of John C. Colman and Jeanne Bishop Leona Z. Rosenberg Wesley A. Kort education in Nicaragua; or designing programs that foster cultural competence United States and Jane B. Colman Carl H. Boyer and John M. Schloerb and Mary Jean Kraybill Canada Emily Huggins Fine Mary A. Boyer and inclusion in the university’s office of multicultural affairs. Aileen P. Schloerb William Madges Baptist Theological Union Trust Estate of John A. Bross and Waldemar Schmeichel and James J. McClure, Jr. and Robert L. Berner, Jr. and Nancy A. Hardesty Judy C. Bross It is worth remembering, though, that even ordination often portrays the collaboration Jean Schmeichel Lynn P. McClure Sheila R. Berner Richard F. Kaufman and Lisa A. Cavallari these bold new vocations are most often of church and academy, tradition and innova- David P. Schmidt and William E. Middleton and Estate of Sylvia Kaufman Chapin-May Foundation nourished and launched from the midst of tion in profound ways, as faith leaders and Norma Schmidt Barbra Hardy Mauro Calamandrei Margaret M. Mitchell of Illinois historic communities of faith, in partnership congregations, teachers and fellow students William R. Schoedel and W. Mark Miller-McLemore Robert Wells Carton and Linda Lee Nelson Tim Child Grace Schoedel and Bonnie Miller- with our MDiv program’s classic theological gather to witness the vows that launch new Jean Carton Richard W. Shepro and Robert W. Crowe and Alexander E. Sharp II and McLemore education. The celebration of a candidate’s ministers and anticipate new and transformed Joan Feitler and Lindsay E. Roberts Elizabeth R. Crowe Margaret H. O’Dell Frank D. Minton ministries. Robert Feitler Frederick H. Stitt and The Donnelley Foundation Estate of Emaroy June Smith Jan Mortensen Six recent MDiv graduates were ordained Estate of John E. Gaus Suzanne B. Stitt Nina Donnelley and Lynn Straus and Eleanor K. Nicholson Lear Family Foundation Richard P. Strubel and James R. Donnelley to the Christian ministry this summer: Pumsup Muller Davis Brenda J. Ojendyk Norman Lear and Ella Strubel Victoria J. Dorgan Shim, McKinna Daugherty, Thandiwe Gobledale Mark G. Toulouse and Peter J. Paris Lyn Lear William Trent Foley and Alexis Vaughan in the Christian Church Jeffica L. Toulouse Samuel C. Pearson, Jr. and Oliver Nicklin Shailer Mathews James L. Foorman and David Jon Van Houten and Mary Alice Clay Pearson (Disciples of Christ); Annette Thornburg in the Marjorie Lindsay Reed Fellows Margaret Foorman Kim Marie Olthoff Joseph L. Price II and American Baptist Church; and Jacqueline “Jack” Smart Family $2,500–$4,999 Arthur B. Francis and Clark M. Williamson and Bonnie L. Price Clark, to the transitional diaconate of the Foundation, Inc. Arlene Francis Anonymous Barbara E. Williamson Charles M. Rich and Episcopal Church in the USA. One of the newly The Regenstein The Arthur J. Gallagher Jack R. Bierig and Kikue Rich Foundation Foundation ordained pastors, reflecting on that event, Barbara Bierig Midway Club Diane M. Ruggiero Carlson Gerdau wrote that “the ordination service was an John I. Cadwallader and $500–$999 David J. Smith Ernest Cadman The Getty Foundation incredible celebration of the work of the church, Trish S. Cadwallader Douglas E. Sturm and Colwell Fellows M. Whitney Gilkey Anonymous and a humbling affirmation of my own call and Thomas J. D’Alesandro IV Margie A. Sturm $10,000–$24,999 Chester Gillis Ross E. Aden Stephen P. Durchslag Judith Van Herik and W. Clark Gilpin and Alan B. Anderson Patrick and Alexandra C. Earle and James Culang, Jr. Nancy Y. Gilpin Margaret J. Armstrong and Anna M. Cudahy Fund David P. Earle Donald R. Weisbaker Joan B. Gottschall Barry D. Guiduli Richard D. Cudahy and Thomas M. Fitzpatrick and Trust Estate of Kenneth S. Bigger and Databases Open to Alumni Janet Cudahy Barbara T. Fitzpatrick Scholars Club Theodore C. W. Grams Sara F. Bigger The Field Foundation Lawrence R. Hamilton and $250–$499 Larry L. Greenfield William G. Black * University of Chicago alumni are now able to access of Illinois, Inc. Ann Hicks Hamilton Fritz Guy Michael C. 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Bond Chapel Renovation Honored by American Institute of Architects

The recent renovation of Bond Chapel was recognized on Designnight, the Chicago-area chapter of the American Institute of Architect (AIA)’s annual awards night. The Bond Chapel Reneker Organ installation received a Special Recognition in the “Divine Detail” category.

The Reneker Memorial Organ, a baroque-style instrument dedicated in honor of the late Robert W. Reneker and Betty C. Reneker, was moved from the Chicago Theological Seminary to the University of Chicago’s Bond Chapel in 2012. It was officially installed in Bond Chapel on February 2, 2013. In its new home, the organ sits naturally in the structurally reinforced loft on the east side of Bond Chapel, set comfortably against a panel of stained-glass windows. One AIA Chicago juror called this “a considered approach—a subtle Thirty-five awards were presented in four Scale Construction. Consultants Matrix Engineer- intervention without destroying what was categories: Distinguished Building, Interior ing, Anne Kustner Lighting Design, Carl Giegold, there.” “A sensitive integration of a giant piece Architecture, SustainABILITY Leadership, and Threshold Acoustics, and organ conservators into an intimate chapel setting,” another added. Divine Detail. Juries of renowned architects Jeff Weiler & Associates were also recognized in Adding to the beauty of the organ installation, from around the country selected the winners the award. the University of Chicago Women’s Board gener- from a field of 269 entries. Legendary Chicago Founded in 1869, AIA Chicago represents ously funded new custom-made chairs in a architect, Stanley Tigerman (who is also a member nearly 3,000 licensed architects, architectural style and finish honoring the traditions of the of the Divinity School’s Visiting Committee), interns and allied professionals in northeastern Chapel while making possible the flexible use received a lifetime achievement award. Illinois. AIA Chicago is the second largest AIA of the building for new generations. Also new The architect on the project was David chapter in the nation. are meditation cushions and prayer rugs. Woodhouse Architects; the contractor was