DIVINITYDUKE UNIVERSITY | Fall 2015 HOW THE CHURCH CAN PARTNER WITH MEDICINE Improving Health Care for Body and Soul THE CHURCH AND THE BACK TO GILEAD RENEWAL OF HEALTH CARE By Dr. Farr Curlin By Dr. Warren Kinghorn HEALTH AND THE PROSPERITY GOSPEL By Kate Bowler FALL 2015 | A Gifts That Keep On Giving “ We understand conservation of the land to be a tenet of our Christian faith and practice. What we have done with Duke University is a source of great and lasting joy for our family.” THORNTON HAWKINS Patrice Hawkins Sigmon T’76, Allen R. Sigmon T’76, the Rev. Thornton Hawkins D’54, Catherine Hawkins Hoffman T’78, and Evelyn Hawkins. Some 189 acres of pristine mountain forest land in The net proceeds received by Duke have funded The Hawkins Haywood County, North Carolina, adjoining the Great Family Scholarship Endowment, celebrating three genera- Smoky Mountains National Park, had been in the Silver/ tions of Duke education that also includes ALLEN R. SIGMON Hawkins family for a century. THE REVEREND THORNTON T’76 and the very special memory of LAUREN PATRICE SIGMON HAWKINS D’54 and his wife, Evelyn, along with their T’07. This permanent fund provides scholarships for Duke daughters, PATRICE HAWKINS Sigmon T’76 and Divinity students each year, with a preference for those who CATHERINE HAWKINS Hoffman T’78, hoped to see are graduates of Duke’s Trinity College or the Nicholas School the land remain undeveloped so that future generations of the Environment. Half of the gift was outright, to support PHO T could enjoy its natural beauty. The family thoughtfully scholarships now, and the other half funded a charitable O COUR evaluated their personal and charitable goals and decided remainder unitrust to provide lifetime income for Thornton T to donate the property to Duke University, stipulating and Evelyn, after which the unitrust assets will be added to ES Y that it never be developed. The Hawkins Family Scholarship. OF T HE H AWK FOR MORE INFORMATION ON HOW YOU CAN PLAN TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE, IN PLEASE CONTACT: S SI Wes Brown at the Divinity School Duke Office of Gift Planning GMO (919) 660-3456 | [email protected] (919) 681-0464 | [email protected] N FAM B | DIVINITY I L Y FEATURES DIVINITY 4 FALL 2015 18 Gifts That Keep On THE CHURCH AND THE BODY MATTERS: Volume 15, Number 1 RENEWAL OF HEALTH CARE STUDYING THE HEALING NARRATIVES IN THE GOSPELS The church has been involved in PUBLISHER health care since its earliest days Jesus’ acts of healing demon- Office of the Dean and can help address some of strate that human bodies matter, Ellen F. Davis the most pressing issues around even in this time before the Interim Dean and Amos Ragan Kearns Giving Distinguished Professor of Bible and treating the deepest needs of fullness of the kingdom comes Practical Theology patients and caregivers By David Moffitt By Warren Kinghorn, M.D., Th.D. Richard B. Hays George Washington Ivey Professor of New Testament 22 10 A COMMUNITY OF HEALING EDITOR BACK TO GILEAD: Professor and former dean of CULTIVATING A SCRIPTURAL Heather Moffitt Duke Divinity School reflects on Associate Director of Communications IMAGINATION FOR MEDICINE his experience of medical and Produced by the Office of Communications, Medical professionals experience ecclesial care during treatment Duke Divinity School burnout at rates higher than By Richard B. Hays Audrey Ward, Executive Director workers in other fields. Scriptural Proofreading by Derek Keefe imagination could reframe their approach to health care Design by B Design Studio, LLC By Farr Curlin, M.D. DEPARTMENTS www.bdesign-studio.com Copyright © 2015 Duke Divinity School 3 The Dean’s Perspective All rights reserved. 14 26 Book Recommendations DIVINITY magazine publishes a Fall and HEALTH AND THE Spring issue each year. The magazine PROSPERITY GOSPEL Patrice Hawkins Sigmon T’76, Allen R. Sigmon T’76, the Rev. Thornton Hawkins D’54, Catherine Hawkins Hoffman T’78, and Evelyn Hawkins. 28 Programs & Events: represents the engagement of Duke What happens to adherents Divinity School with important topics Focus on Medicine, Health and invites friends, supporters, alumni, of the “health and wealth” Care, and Theology and others in our community to participate gospel when they are sick or in the story of what is happening here. their loved ones die 32 New Books from By Kate Bowler Duke Divinity Faculty We’d like to hear from you! For comments or feedback on 34 Faculty & Staff Notes DIVINITY magazine, please write: Class Notes Editor, DIVINITY magazine 38 Duke Divinity School Box 90970 39 Deaths Durham, NC 27708-0970 Faculty Reflections Or email: [email protected] 40 Please include a daytime phone number and Meditation an email address. Letters to the editor may be 41 edited for clarity or length. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON HOW YOU CAN PLAN TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE, PLEASE CONTACT: WWW.DIVINITY.DUKE.EDU/MAGAZINE FALL 2015 | 1 CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE WARREN KINGHORN is assistant FARR CURLIN is the Josiah KATE BOWLER is an assistant DAVID MOFFITT is a senior professor of psychiatry and C. Trent Professor of Medical professor of the history of lecturer in St Mary’s College, pastoral and moral theology, Humanities, with a joint appoint- Christianity in North America. the School of Divinity at the with a joint appointment at ment at Duke Divinity School Her research interests include University of St Andrews. His Duke Divinity School and the and the Duke University School contemporary evangelicalism, research interests include the Duke University Medical Center. of Medicine. He is a hospice and Pentecostalism, megachurches, Letter to the Hebrews, Jewish His work centers on the role of palliative care physician whose and religion and ethnicity. Her apocalyptic, Christian and Jewish religious communities in caring research charts the influence book, Blessed: A History of the understandings of sacrifice, and for persons with mental health of physicians’ moral traditions American Prosperity Gospel, theologies of Jesus’ resurrec- problems and on ways in which and commitments on their traces the rise of Christian belief tion and atonement. His book, Christians engage practices of clinical practices. His scholarly in divine promises of health, Atonement and the Logic of modern health care. His current interests include medical ethics, wealth, and happiness. She is Resurrection in the Epistle to the scholarly interests include the doctor-patient relationships, and currently working on a cultural Hebrews, won a 2013 Manfred moral and theological dimensions religion and medicine, and he history of the wife “co-pastor” Lautenschlaeger Award for of combat-related post-traumatic co-authored the New England as a modern American icon. Theological Promise. He earned stress disorder, the applicability Journal of Medicine paper She earned her Ph.D. from the his Th.M. from Duke Divinity of virtue theory to the vocational “Religion, Conscience, and Graduate Program in Religion at School and his Ph.D. from the formation of pastors and clini- Controversial Clinical Practices.” Duke University. Graduate Program in Religion at cians, and the contributions of He earned his M.D. from the Duke University. St. Thomas Aquinas to contem- University of North Carolina at porary debates about psychiatric Chapel Hill. diagnosis, psychiatric technology, and human flourishing. RICHARD B. HAYS is George RAYMOND BARFIELD is an DAVID TOOLE is an associate Washington Ivey Professor of associate professor of pediatrics professor of the practice of New Testament and former dean and Christian philosophy at Duke theology, ethics, and global of Duke Divinity School. He is University School of Medicine health and the associate dean internationally recognized for and Duke Divinity School. He for interdisciplinary initiatives. his work on the letters of Paul directs the Pediatric Quality of He has a joint appointment in and on New Testament ethics, Life/Palliative Care program and the Divinity School, the Kenan which has bridged the disciplines practices pediatric oncology. In Institute for Ethics, and the Duke of biblical criticism and literary the Divinity School he teaches Global Health Institute. His cur- studies. His most recent book Christian philosophy and works rent research centers on the role is Reading Backwards: Figural at the intersection of theology, of mission hospitals in African Christology and the Fourfold medicine, and culture. He earned health systems, with a particular Gospel Witness. He is an an M.D. and a Ph.D. in philoso- focus on the countries of the Nile ordained elder in the United phy from Emory University. His River Basin in eastern Africa, and Methodist Church. publications include The Ancient he is the principal investigator Quarrel between Poetry and of the Clergy Health Initiative. Philosophy, The Book of Colors: A He earned his M.T.S. and Ph.D. Novel, and many research papers from Duke University and his in oncology and palliative care. M.P.H. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 2 | DIVINITY THE DEAN’S PERSPECTIVE Bible and Health: A Story of South Sudan BY ELLEN F. DAVIS NEARLY 10 YEARS AGO, I glimpsed Divinity student and throw them in the Nile—about a mile from the cathedral public-health physician Peter Morris D’07 in an otherwise where we were gathered. empty hallway of the Gray Building and felt myself Exodus gave us a framework for asking how a nation is prompted to call out, “Peter, would you consider coming with called by God to organize for the protection of its children. me to Sudan?” The request evidently surprised me more We looked at the need for training birth attendants and than it did him. “Yes,” he said, without even asking why. midwives. The story prompted conversation about the Thus began a partnership in theological and community Christian vocation of adoption, in a situation where many health education between Duke Divinity School and the parents are dead, missing, or unable to care for children.