For Immediate Release

University of Oxford Professor to Deliver Princeton Theological Seminary’s Annual Warfield Lectures April 4–7

Princeton, NJ, March 23, 2005—Princeton Theological Seminary will welcome Dr. Marilyn McCord Adams, an ordained Episcopal priest and the Regius Professor of Divinity and Residentiary Canon at Christ Church, the University of Oxford, England, to campus April 4 through 7 when she delivers the Seminary’s annual Warfield Lectures.

Adams’s lecture series, titled The Coherence of Christology: God Enmattered and Enmattering, 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: Posing the Problems, Defining a Role on Monday, April 4 at 7:00 p.m.

Lecture II: Sharing the Horrors on Tuesday, April 5 at 1:15 p.m.

Lecture III: Learning the Meanings on Tuesday, April 5 at 7:00 p.m.

Lecture IV: Christ for the World on Wednesday, April 6 at 7:00 p.m.

Lecture V: Resurrection and Renewal on Thursday, April 7 at 1:15 p.m.

Lecture VI: Christ in the Sacrament of the Altar on Thursday, April 7 at 7:00 p.m.

A reception in the Private Dining Room of the Seminary’s Mackay Campus Center will follow Adams’s first lecture on April 4.

Adams, who completed two Master of Theology degrees at Princeton Theological Seminary, graduated with her Ph.D. in philosophy from Cornell University. She has served as a professor and chair of philosophy at the University of California at Los Angeles and as the Horace Tracy Pitkin Chair of Historical Theology at Yale Divinity School. Her published works include William Ockham, Horrendous Evils and the Goodness of God, and What Sort of Human Nature? The Metaphysics and Systematics of Christology. 
     
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.