| PREVIOUS
TOWN AND GOWN LECTURERS |
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| 2008 |
David Cressy, Humanities Distinguished Professor,
Ohio State University
"What Not to Say: Dangerous Speech in Early Modern England" |
2007
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Natalie Zemon Davis, Henry Charles Lea Professor Emerita of History at Princeton University
"Philosophes, Jews, and Africans in Colonial Suriname: The Example of David Nassy" |
2006
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Andrew M. Greeley, Professor of Sociology, University of Arizona; and Research Associate, National Opinion Research Center, University of Chicago
"The Mystery of African-American Evangelicals" |
2005
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Caroline Walker Bynum
, Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton
"A Matter of Matter: Two Cases of Blood Cult in Fifteenth-Century Germany" |
2004
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James
D. Tracy , University of Minnesota Union Pacific Professor of
Early Modern History
"Christendom vs. Islamdom: The Background War of the Early Modern
Era, 1500-1700" |
2003
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William
Chester Jordan
, Princeton University Professor of History and Director
of the Medieval Studies Program
"Expulsion and Exile: French Jews in the Early Fourteenth
Century" |
2002
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Elaine
Pagels, Harrington Spear Paine Foundation Professor of Religion,
Princeton University
"The Recently Discovered Gospel of Thomas: An Early Mystical
Jewish View of Jesus" |
2001
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Patrick
Collinson, Emeritus Regius Professor of Modern History, University
of Cambridge
"The Reformation and the Birth of England " |
2000
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John
P. Frank, Constitutional law
"The Trial of Socrates: The Foundation of Democracy" |
1999
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Robert
Wistrich, Professor of Modern European History, Hebrew University
"In the Footsteps of the Messiah: Herzl, Zionism, and the
Millennial Fever" |
1998
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Thomas
O'Meara, O.P., William K. Warren Chair of Theology, University
of Notre Dame
"Religion Looks Beyond the Year 2000: The Millennium, World
Religions, Extra-Terrestrial Life" |
1997
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John
Dillenberger, Professor Emeritus in Ecclesiastical and Art History, Graduate
Theological Union
"Painters as Prophets: Unexpected Visions
of Heaven and Earth" |
1996
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John Shea, Professor of Systematic
Theology, Mundelein Seminary
"Storytelling and Spiritual Development: Narratives
from the Spiritual Traditons of the World" |
1995
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Jaroslav
Pelikan, Sterling Professor of History, Yale University
"From Russia With Love: Russian Roots of the
American Spirit: Jewish and Christian" |
1993
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Leon Bass, Winner, 1992 Holocaust
Humanitarian Award
"Racism and the Holocaust: An African American
in World War II" |
1992
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Yosef
Hayim Yerushalmi, Director, Center for Israel and Jewish Studies, Columbia University
"1492: The Jewish Response to the Expulsion
from Spain" |
1990
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Rosemary Radford Reuther, Professor
of Applied Theology , Garret-Evangelical Theological Seminary |
1989
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Martin E. Marty, Fairfax M.
Cone Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History of Christianity,
University of Chicago Divinity School |
1988
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David Tracy, Andrew Thomas Greeley
and Grace McNichols Greeley Distinguished Service Professor of Catholic
Studies and Professor of Theology and of the Philosophy of Religion,
University of Chicago Divinity School |
1987
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Krister Stendahl, Dean, John
Lord O'Brian Professor of Divinity, Harvard Divinity School |
1986
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Jürgen Moltmann, Professor
of Systematic Theology, University of Tübingen |
1985
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Hans Küng, Professor of
Ecumenical Theology, University of Tübingen |