Word & World Lectures

The Word & World lectures focus on topics important to Christian ministry in today's world. The lectures are sponsored by Word & World, a scholarly theological journal published by Luther Seminary.

Lecturers from Previous Years

2010
Elizabeth Marquardt
Vice President for Family Studies; Director of the Center for Marriage and Families, Institute for American Values, New York City
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2009
Ellen F. Davis
Professor of Bible and Practical Theology, Duke Divinity School
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2008
Mark I. Wallace
Professor of religion and member of the Interpretation Theory Committee and the Environmental Studies Committee at Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania
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2007
Henry P. Mobley
Professor of Doctrinal Theology, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary
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2006
Amy Plantinga Pauw
Henry P. Mobley Professor of Doctrinal Theology, Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary

2005
Gail R. O'Day
Associate Dean of Faculty & Academic Affairs and A. H. Shatford Professor of Preaching and New Testament, Candler School of Theology, Emory University

2004
Andrew Walls
honorary professor, curator of the Centre Collections, historian of world Christianity and of Christianity and culture at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland

Tasgara Hirpo
Hermannsburg, Germany, Pastor to Oromo-speaking evangelical Christians in the Federal Republic of Germany, former president of the Western Synod of the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (1971-1982) and professor at the Mekane Yesus Seminary (1978-82).

2003
Douglas Johnson
Executive Director, Center for Victims of Torture, Minneapolis, Minnesota