Lectureships

Seminary Lectureships

The Stone Lectures

Topic: “A Light That Shines in the Darkness: Evil, Egotism, and the Sacred in Film”
Lecturer: Dr. Jeffrey L. Stout, professor of religion, Princeton University

All films will be shown in the James Stewart Theater, Princeton University, 185 Nassau Street, Princeton (enter from the parking lot side).
All lectures will be held in the Cooper Conference Room, Erdman Center, 20 Library Place, Princeton.

Film I: Alfred Hitchcock, Shadow of a Doubt (108 minutes, 16mm, 1943); Monday, September 24, 7:30 p.m.

Lecture I: “In the Shadow of Darkness”; Tuesday, September 25, 7:00 p.m.

Film II: Frank Capra, Meet John Doe (122 minutes, 16mm, 1941); Monday, October 1, 7:30 p.m.

Lecture II: “Modern Horrors and Democratic Hope”; Tuesday, October 2, 7:00 p.m.

Film III: Lars von Trier, Breaking the Waves (159 minutes, 16mm, 1996, CinemaScope); Monday, October 8, 7:30 p.m.

Lecture III: “The Sacred Made Visible”; Tuesday, October 9, 7:00 p.m.

Film IV: Yasujiro Ozu, Tokyo Story (35mm, 1953); Monday, October 15, 7:30 p.m.

Lecture IV: “Now and Then”; Tuesday, October 16, 7:00 p.m.

Film V: Gregory Markopoulos, Bliss (6 minutes, 16mm, 1967); a preview excerpt from Gregory Markopoulos’s upcoming film, Eniaios (approximately 30 minutes, 16mm, premiere scheduled for June 2008 in Greece); Nathaniel Dorsky, The Visitation (18 minutes, 16mm, 2002); and Stan Brakhage, untitled handpainted film known as For Marilyn (11 minutes, 16mm, 1992); Monday, November 5, 7:30 p.m.

Lecture V: “All Mean Egotism Vanishes”; Tuesday, November 6, 7:00 p.m.

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The Toyohiko Kagawa Lecture

Topic: “The Forgotten Prophet: Rediscovering Toyohiko Kagawa for Japan and America Today”
Lecturer: Dr. Anri Morimoto, Division of Humanities, International Christian University, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan

Monday, October 29, 7:00 p.m., Main Lounge, Mackay Campus Center

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The Students’ Lectureship on Missions

Topic: “The Transfiguration of Christianity: Insights for Christian Mission Today from the World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh 1910”
Lecturer: Dr. Brian Stanley, director, Henry Martyn Centre and Henry Martyn Lecturer in Mission Studies, Westminster College, Cambridge, United Kingdom

All lectures will be held in the Main Lounge, Mackay Campus Center.

Lecture I: “Visions of the Kingdom: Edinburgh 1910 and the History of Christianity”; Monday, December 3, 7:00 p.m.

Lecture II: “The World Comes to Edinburgh: the Conference in Session”; Tuesday, December 4, 1:15 p.m.

Lecture III : “The Legacy of Edinburgh 1910”; Tuesday, December 4, 7:00 p.m.

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The 2008 Princeton Lectures on Youth, Church, and Culture

Topic: “And You Will Be My Witnesses...”
Lecturers: Dr. Diana Butler Bass, independent scholar and author of Christianity for the Rest of Us: How the Neighborhood Church is Transforming the Faith; and Dr. Ted A. Smith, assistant professor of ethics and preaching and director of the Program in Theology and Practice, The Divinity School, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee

All lectures will be held at the Loews Vanderbilt Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee, during the Princeton Forum on Youth Ministry.

Lecture I: (Smith) To be announced; Monday, January 7, 2:00 p.m.

Lecture II: (Bass) To be announced; Tuesday, January 8, 9:00 a.m.

Lecture III: (Bass) To be announced; Wednesday, January 9, 9:00 a.m.

Lecture IV: (Smith) To be announced; Thursday, January 10, 9:00 a.m.

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The Frederick Neumann Memorial Lecture

Topic: “What Friends We Have In Jesus: The Leavening Effect of Transnational Mission Partnerships”
Lecturer: The Reverend Dr. Marian McClure, former director of the Worldwide Ministries Division of the Presbyterian Church (USA)

Monday, February 11, 7:00 p.m., Main Lounge, Mackay Campus Center

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The Women in Church and Ministry Lecture

Topic: “The Role of Feminism(s) in Theology and the Church—Reflections from a Feminist Pastoral Theologian”
Lecturer: Dr. Pamela Cooper-White, professor of pastoral theology, Lutheran Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Thursday, February 28, 7:30 p.m., Stuart Hall, Room 6

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The Alexander Thompson Lecture

Topic: “The Bible in China: Religion of ‘God’s Chinese Son’”
Lecturer: Dr. Archie C.C. Lee, professor of biblical studies and Asian hermeneutics, Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, and dean of the faculty of arts, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories

Monday, March 3, 7:00 p.m., Main Lounge, Mackay Campus Center

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The Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture

Topic: “Moral Theatre in the Streets: The Role of Suffering in the Quest for Social Justice”
Lecturer: Dr. Peter J. Paris, Elmer G. Homrighausen Professor of Christian Social Ethics Emeritus, Princeton Theological Seminary

Monday, April 7, 7:00 p.m., Miller Chapel

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The Abraham Kuyper Lecture and Prize

Topic: “Some Reflections on Pluralism”
Lecturer: Dr. Oliver O’Donovan, professor of Christian ethics and practical theology, New College, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Thursday, April 17, 7:30 p.m., Miller Chapel

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The 2008 Princeton Lectures on Youth, Church, and Culture

Topic: “And You Will Be My Witnesses...”
Lecturers: Dr. Darrell Guder, dean of academic affairs and Henry Winters Luce Professor of Missional and Ecumencial Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary; and Dr. Arun Jones, associate professor of mission and evangelism, Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Austin, Texas

All lectures will be held in Miller Chapel during the Princeton Forum on Youth Ministry.

Lecture I: (Guder) To be announced; Monday, April 28, 5:45 p.m.

Lecture II: (Jones) To be announced; Tuesday, April 29, 5:45 p.m.

Lecture III: (Guder) To be announced; Wednesday, April 30, 11:30 a.m.

Lecture IV: (Jones) To be announced; Thursday, May 1, 5:45 p.m.

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