Lectures and Panels
October 27, 2009, 4:30PM
'This Necessity is Sweet to Me': Augusting on the Pleasures of Food and Sex
Gil Meilaender, Valparaiso University
Bowl 2, WWS
Open to the Public
November 11, 2009, 4:30PM
Maimonides and Aquinas on Human Perfection
Presenter: Kenneth Seeskin, Northwestern University
"To the Utmost of our Capacity" - Maimonides on Human Perfection
Respondent: John Bowlin, Princeton Theological Seminary
"What Aquinas Might Say"
East Pyne 010
Open to the Public
December 9, 2009, 4:30PM
Abraham Lincoln's Theologico-Political Dilemma
Steven Smith, Yale University
Ease Pyne 010
Open to the Public
*Lectures for Spring Semester are TBD. Please check back for more information at a later date*
Co-Sponsored by:
The Tikvah Project on Jewish Thought at Princeton
The Department of Religion
The Department of Politics
University Center for Human Values
The James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions
The Program in Judaic Studies
Lectures Connected with Courses:
ECS 392/POL 414/REL 392: "God and Politics"
The Politics of the New Testament
C. Kavin Rowe
Duke University Divinity School
DATE: Wednesday- December 2, 2009 – 4:30pm
LOCATION: East Pyne 010
Open to the Public
C. Kavin Rowe is Assistant Professor of New Testament at Duke University Divinity School. He is the author or co-editor of over twenty scholarly publications. His most recent book is World Upside Down: Reading Acts in the Graeco-Roman Age (Oxford University Press, 2009). Rowe has been a Fulbright Scholar, Regional Scholar for the Society of Biblical Literature, Chair of the Society's Southeastern Region New Testament section, and was elected to the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas. He was awarded a Lilly Faculty Fellowship, a faculty fellowship from the Louisville Institute, and, most recently, the John Templeton Prize for Theological Promise.
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