Sixteenth
Annual Word & World Lecture
(Free and Open to the Public)
Ellen F. Davis
(Professor of Bible and Practical Theology, Duke
Divinity School)
"A Theology of the Land"
11:00 a.m., Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Luther Seminary Chapel of the Incarnation
Previous Word & World Lectures:
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Fifteenth Annual Word & World Lecture:"The New Green Christianity: Why the
Church is Vital to Saving the Earth" by Mark I. Wallance, Professor of
Religion, Swarthmore College, Pennsylvania. Full Text is included in the
Winter 2008 issue of Word & World with the theme "The Enemy."
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Fourteenth Annual Word & World Lecture:
"What is a Christian? Answers from the Global South" by Amy Plantinga Pauw,
Henry P. Mobley Professor of Doctrinal Theology, Louisville Presbyterian
Theological Seminary. Full Text included in the Summer 2007 Issue of
Word & World with the theme "What is a Christian?"
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Thirteenth Annual Word & World Lecture: “Biblical Authority Today”
by Gail R. O'Day, Associate Dean of Faculty and Academic Affairs and A. H. Shatford Professor of Preaching and New Testament, Candler School of Theology,
Emory University, Atlanta, GA; Full Text included in the
Fall 2006 Issue of
Word & World with the theme of "Biblical Authority Today."
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Twelfth Annual Word & World Lectures:
“The Cost of Discipleship: The Story of Gudina Tumsa” by Tasgara Hirpo,
former President of the Western Synod of the Ethiopian Evangelical Church,
Mekane Yesus; Full Text included in the Spring
2005 issue; and “The Cost of Discipleship: The Witness of the African
Church” by Andrew Walls, Emeritus professor of mission, University of
Edinburgh; Full Text included in the Fall 2005
Issue.
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Eleventh Annual Word & World Lecture: "Restoring the Dignity of the Human Spirit"
by Douglas A. Johnson, Executive Director, Center for Victims of
Torture, Minneapolis, MN. Full Text included in the Winter 2004 issue of the
journal, which is devoted to the theme "Violence."
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Tenth Annual Word & World Lecture: “The
Lively Work of the Spirit in the Reformation,” by Jane Dempsey Douglass,
Emerita Professor of Historical Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary:
Full text included in the Spring 2003 issue
of the journal, "The Holy Spirit"
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