Phi Beta Kappa hosts visiting scholar lecture

Fort Worth, TX

11/30/2011

Please join Phi Beta Kappa for a Visiting Scholar lecture:
 
"The Humanism of Evil"
 
Dr. William Schweiker
Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics, University of Chicago
 
Monday, January 30, 2012
Brown-Lupton University Union Ballroom
7:00 pm

William Schweiker is Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological Ethics at Chicago and director of the university’s Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion. His scholarship and teaching cross the disciplinary lines of ethics, systematic theology, and hermeneutical philosophy. He is the author of Mimetic Reflections: A Study in Hermeneutics, Theology and Ethics; Responsibility and Christian Ethics; Power, Value and Conviction: Theological Ethics in the Postmodern Age; Theological Ethics and Global Dynamics; Religion and the Human Future: An Essay on Theological Humanism (coauthor); and, most recently, Dust That Breathes: Christian Faith and the New Humanisms. He has edited and contributed to five volumes on moral theory and hermeneutics and is also chief editor and contributor to The Blackwell Companion to Religious Ethics.

He has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Heidelberg and Uppsala. His recent work involves theological and ethical questions attentive to global dynamics, comparative ethics, and the possibilities of a renewed and robust religious humanism.

For more information, call 817-257-6163

Click the following link to register online: www.froglinks.com/pbklecture