University of Chicago Divinity School Professor to Deliver Princeton Theological Seminary’s Annual Warfield Lectures March 19–22

Princeton, NJ, March 7, 2007–Princeton Theological Seminary will welcome Dr. Kathryn Tanner, Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor of Theology at the University of Chicago Divinity School, to campus March 19 through 22 when she delivers the Seminary’s annual Warfield Lectures. 

Tanner’s lecture series, titled “Christ as Key,” will include six lectures given in the Main Lounge of the Seminary’s Mackay Campus Center. The schedule of lectures is as follows:

            Lecture I: “In the Image of the Invisible” on Monday, March 19 at 7:00 p.m.

            Lecture II: “Grace without Nature” on Tuesday, March 20 at 1:15 p.m.

            Lecture III: “Trinitarian Life” on Tuesday, March 20 at 7:00 p.m.

            Lecture IV: “Kingdom Come” on Wednesday, March 21 at 7:00 p.m.

            Lecture V: “Death and Sacrifice” on Thursday, March 22 at 1:15 p.m.

            Lecture VI: “Workings of the Spirit” on Thursday, March 22 at 7:00 p.m.

A reception in the Private Dining Room of the Seminary’s Mackay Campus Center will follow Tanner’s first lecture on March 19.           

Tanner received her doctorate from Yale University and taught in the Religious Studies Department there for ten years before moving to the University of Chicago Divinity School in 1994. The author of five books—including the recent Economy of Grace—and some forty articles, she has lectured widely in the United States, Australia, Germany, Great Britain, Sweden, the Netherlands, and Belgium.

The Warfield Lectures are named in honor of Annie Kinkead Warfield, wife of Dr. Benjamin Breckenridge Warfield, distinguished professor of theology at the Seminary from 1887 to 1921. The lectures are free and open to the public. Please call the Communications/Publications Office at 609.497.7760 for more information or visit www.ptsem.edu.

Princeton Theological Seminary was founded in 1812 as the first seminary established by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church. It is the largest Presbyterian seminary in the country, with more than 700 students in seven graduate degree programs.