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News from the University of Chicago Divinity School / Number Eighteen
or many years Martin E. Marty marshaled a simple but hugely effective rhetorical ploy
for his public speaking engagements around the country. Having arrived at his (often farflung) venue, he would obtain a copy of the local newspaper and bring it with him to the
podium. He would then proceed to demonstrate how every story on the front page
of that paper—above and below the fold—
related in some significant way to religion.
In Marty’s hands these demonstrations were,
of course, ingenious, deeply informed, even
amusing. And they brilliantly demonstrated
his point—especially relevant in the decades
of the ’70s and ’80s—that Americans habitually underestimated religion’s utter suffusion
of human life in the public sphere.
Our world at the dawn of this twenty-first
century of the Common Era is, on this score
as on so many others, very different. The most
cursory glance at any front page (or internet
homepage) forcibly, even jarringly, locates
the role of religion in world events. From the
Middle East to the Catholic Church, religion
is not only in the news; it is the news. In some
cases, Marty’s ingenuity might be taxed more
greatly—as in the recent scandals in accounting and financial management—but it is no
longer an inherently impressive feat of intellectual legerdemain to locate the force of
religion in the contemporary world.
And if we wish to acknowledge—as we do
explicitly at the Divinity School—that the
chief index of the power of religion is the fact
that it can be a force for good or for ill in the
world, we must note that the “for ill” column
garners more ink and more photo opportunities
today. Even allowing for what some judge to
be the media’s preference for the sensational
over the quotidian, it is clear that we need to
come to terms with what it means to be religious in this new century. This is partly a
question of fact, but the facts suggest ever
more urgently the need for more adequate
formulations of the appropriate roles and
venues for religion in public life.
While particularly urgent and uniquely
formulated at this particular historical moment,
it is worth noting that such questions are
perennial at the Divinity School. Names
such as Harper, Mathews, Mead, Meland,
Loomer, Tillich, Marty, and, most recently,
Gamwell, Elshtain, and Schweiker have
each addressed them centrally in their work.
Even allowing for differences of historical
moment, disciplinary approach, and personal
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from the
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commitment, they evince in common a
commitment to understanding the triangle
of society, culture, and religion. Each demonstrates an abiding commitment to the social
dimensions of culture, the cultural dimensions
of society, and to religion as the crucial
“boundary phenomenon” at the intersections.
And I am persuaded that the twenty-first
century’s answers to the place of religion in
public life must embrace revised notions of
culture and society if they are to do justice
to religion as reality and possibility today.
So I am pleased to report the establishment
of a new Martin Marty Center working group,
organized by colleagues Chris Gamwell and
W. Clark Gilpin, which focuses on religion
and the future of democracy. While acknowledging the formal question of religious freedom
and religious plurality that has claimed much
attention in the past half century, this working group seeks to place that question within
what it judges to be a larger, substantive
question about the promise of democracy for
our future life. The group’s working hypothesis
is that cultural and social organizations and
decisions shape the life of a political community through fundamental convictions
about the significance and worth of human
life as such. In this respect, they address
questions that religions also answer. These
various answers, religious and otherwise, are
the basis for different implications for democratic life and the appropriate role religion
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plays in it. “Public theology” thus contributes
to democratic life by underscoring these
convictions and bringing them into the fullest
possible conversation—whether the character
of the contribution takes its bearings from
Jewish or Christian or Islamic, or non-theistic,
or non-religious traditions of thought and
practice.
What, then, if any, are the religious issues
at stake in the future of democracy? And
what direction does the proper resolution of
those issues provide for the way democracies
deliberate, and then decide, on the crucial
issues of the moment? Divinity colleagues
Jean Bethke Elshtain, Saba Mahmood, and
myself, with sociologist Omar McRoberts
and alumnus Larry Greenfield, have begun
to discuss provisional answers to these questions. Our conversations have taken us into
contextual analysis of democracy today—
its urgent problems and pressing imperatives
—in order to clarify the religious issues that
must be the grounding for constructive
thought.
The group’s principal common activity
will be the critical discussion of papers drafted
by the participants, and addressed to some
aspect of the inclusive concern. We hope
they will provide the basis for a series in
The Journal of Religion for wider scholarly
discussion, and that they will be of benefit to
the larger public, perhaps especially religious
communities, through such publications as
The Common Good, a forum of Protestants
for the Common Good.
It is at best dubious that the result of our
inquiry will enable a return to some version
of Martyian ingenuity with the front page.
But our hope is that it will allow for a conversation of unprecedented breadth and
inclusion to address the enduring and genuinely urgent questions that impress the fate
of democracy and, within it, religion in this
new and already troubled century.
Richard A. Rosengarten, Dean
Faculty Announcements
Faculty Awards
and Achievements
McGinn Inducted into
American Academy of Arts
and Sciences
Elshtain Awarded
Goodenow Prize
B
J
ean Bethke Elshtain, Laura Spelman
Rockefeller Professor of Social and
Political Ethics, was awarded the
Goodenow Prize from the American
Political Science Association for contributions
to the profession. This is the highest honor
the APSA awards for lifetime contributions.
Gilpin Appointed Burke Library
Research Scholar
U
nion Theological Seminary
appointed W. Clark Gilpin, Margaret
E. Burton Professor of the History
of Christianity, the Burke Research Scholar
for the autumn quarter of 2002. Professor
Gilpin will conduct research for a book on
prison letters written in England from approximately 1530 to 1700—an area in which the
Seminary’s McAlpin Collection of British
History and Theology is particularly strong.
In his study, Professor Gilpin seeks to show
that, as a body of literature, letters from prison
represent a crucial intersection between the
artistry of religion as a cultural form and the
power of religion as a social institution.
ernard McGinn, Naomi Shenstone
Donnelley Professor of Historical
Theology and the History of Christianity, was inducted into the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2001.
Founded in 1780, the AAAS is an international
learned society composed of the world’s leading
scientists, scholars, artists, business people,
and public leaders. Other Divinity School
faculty members of the AAAS include Wendy
Doniger, Jean Bethke Elshtain, Martin E. Marty,
Martha Nussbaum, Jonathan Z. Smith, David
Tracy, and Anthony C. Yu.
hospice chaplain, and pastoral psychotherapist
for over twenty years. Teaching and research
interests include the ethics of preaching and
pastoral care in multicultural society, the interface of corporate worship and public witness
in congregational life, biblical interpretation
and the pedagogy of adults, the moral development of adolescents, and the religious and
ethical dimensions of family policy. The Reverend Lindner succeeds Stephanie Paulsell,
who resigned last year to move to Harvard
Divinity School.
Faculty Appointments
Lindner Appointed Director
of Ministry Studies
C
ynthia Gano Lindner has been
appointed the new director of
Ministry Studies and Senior
Lecturer in the Divinity School. She begins
administrative work and teaching this
autumn. The Reverend Lindner received
her training in the Divinity School’s Doctor
of Ministry program in 1999 with emphasis
in biblical studies, ethics, and psychological
studies. She has worked as a parish pastor,
Wednesday Community Luncheons
Community luncheons are held in Swift Common Room on Wednesdays at 12:00 noon.
If interested in attending, please sign up a week in advance with Sandy Dowler in Swift 104,
Respondent: Martha Nussbaum, Ernst Freund
Distinguished Service Professor of Law and
Ethics in the Divinity School.
or contact her by phone at 773-702-8217, or by email at sdowler @midway.uchicago.edu.
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AUTUMN QUARTER 2002
October 2
“Justice, Reconciliation, and the Way
Forward in South Africa.” A report from
Alison Boden, Dean of Rockefeller Chapel,
and student members of the recent delegation
to South Africa to look at human rights, religion, and social change.
October 9
Maria Spiropulu, Fellow in the Enrico Fermi
Institute, will discuss in laymen’s terms her
groundbreaking research into particle physics
and the possibility of a fifth dimension.
October 16
“Julie Moos: Monsanto.” A tour of the Renaissance Society’s new exhibition by Hamza
Walker, the Society’s Director of Education.
Moos photographed farmers working with
Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs)
produced by the Monsanto Company, whose
world headquarters is based in St. Louis,
Missouri. In a climate where developments in
biogenetic engineering are met with increasing
controversy, Moos chose to distance herself
and her subjects from the debate and instead
offer a straightforward, quasi-documentary
presentation of individuals, the land, and the
corporation behind them.
October 23
“Religion and Nation in Popular Indian
Film” by Ronald Inden, Professor in the
Departments of History and of South Asian
Languages and Civilizations.
October 30
Dean’s Forum on Martha Nussbaum’s
recently edited volume (with Juha Sihvola),
The Sleep of Reason: Erotic Experience and
Sexual Ethics in Ancient Greece and Rome
(University of Chicago Press, 2002).
Discussants: Wendy Doniger, Mircea Eliade
Distinguished Service Professor of the
History of Religions in the Divinity School,
and Margaret M. Mitchell, Associate
Professor of New Testament and Early
Christian Literature in the Divinity School.
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J. Nathan Kline, third-year M.Div. student,
will speak on his work for the Interfaith
Program of the National Conference for
Community Justice.
November 13
“Ethics and the Vocation of Solidarity”
by Dennis Beach, OSB, Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Saint John’s University
in Collegeville, Minnesota, and Senior
Research Fellow in the Martin Marty Center
for 2002–2003. Mr. Beach will speak on the
uses made of the thought of Emmanuel Levinas
by Latin American theologians and ethicists.
November 20
“Races, Crowds, and Souls: Messianism,
Spirit-Possession, and Religious Change in
Brazilian Social Thought, 1880–1920” by
Dain Borges, Associate Professor in the
Department of History.
December 4
“The Mandingo Griot and the Kora” by
Jali Morikeba Kouyate, among the world’s
finest kora players and a member of one of
Senegal’s renowned musical families, or
jaliyaa. As a carrier of oral tradition, the
Jali, or Griot, passes on his art from generation to generation, sharing and preserving
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Visiting Faculty
under the title Traditionen überschreiten:
Angloamerikanische Beiträge zur interkulturellen
Traditionshermeneutik. More recently, he has
focused on concepts of God and their translatability across religious traditions. He has
also organized a series of international conference seminars entitled “The Concept of
God in Europe’s Global Religious Dialogue.”
In Chicago, Mr. Hintersteiner is conducting
research for a new book entitled Translating
God(s): Models and Methods in Comparative
Theology.
Hans G. Kippenberg is Visiting Professor of
Norbert Hintersteiner is Fulbright Visiting
Scholar and Senior Fellow in the Martin Marty
Center at the Divinity School for 2002–2003.
He received his doctorate from Jesuit University
St. Georgen in Frankfurt. Mr. Hintersteiner
teaches in the areas of cross-cultural systematics, philosophical theology, and the study
of religion at the University of Vienna. His
previous research focused on tradition and
translatability, which he published in 2001
the History of Religions in the Divinity School
for 2002–2003. He received his doctorate of
theology from the University of Göttingen
and his Habilitation from the University of
Berlin. Mr. Kippenberg has studied the history
of the great Mediterranean religions at various
European universities. He has published a
study on the place of Near Eastern religions
in the fabric of the ancient city (Die vorderasiatischen Erlösungsreligionen in ihrem Zusammenhang
mit der antiken Stadtherrschaft). His most
recent book, Discovering Religious History in
the Modern Age, deals with religious historiography between 1850 and 1920 as a case of
historical imagination in an age of modernization. Professor Kippenberg is particularly
interested in the public and secret dimensions of religions. He coedited (with G. G.
Stroumsa) Secrecy and Concealment: Studies in
the History of Mediterranean and Near Eastern
Religions. In Chicago, Professor Kippenberg
is researching the public status of ancient
religious communities and the sociology of
Max Weber.
Benjamin Sommer is Visiting Associate
Professor of Hebrew Bible in the Divinity
School for 2002–2003. He received his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1994.
Mr. Sommer is an Associate Professor of
Religion at Northwestern University, where
he serves as Director of Undergraduate
Jewish Studies. He specializes in the history
of Israelite religion, literary approaches to
the Hebrew Bible, and biblical theology. He
also studies the ancient Near Eastern context
of biblical texts and interpretative strategies in
midrash. Professor Sommer’s book A Prophet
Reads Scripture: Allusion in Isaiah 40–66 was
awarded the Salo Wittmayer
Baron Prize by the American
Academy for Jewish
Research for the best first
book published in 1998
concerning ancient and
medieval Judaism.
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the history of the Mandingo people as well as
providing entertainment in Senegalese society.
Jali Morikeba Kouyate has performed before
the Presidents of Senegal, Gambia, and the
United States, and throughout America since
immigrating to Chicago in 1991. At the lunch,
he will perform traditional songs and offer a
brief history of his craft.
Sciences and the Pritzker School of Medicine.
Dr. Hassan will share her experience in a
grassroots fundraising effort to complete a
documentary for Public Television entitled
“Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet.”
January 8
Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No
Children Here (1992) and The Other Side of
the River (1999). Topic TBA.
January 15
February 5
Dean Grodzins, Assistant Professor of History
at Meadville Lombard Theological School,
will discuss his new book, American Heretic:
Theodore Parker and Transcendentalism
(University of North Carolina Press, 2002).
“Children’s Religious Rights” by Emily Buss,
Professor in the Law School.
Cornell H. Fleischer, Kanuni Suleyman
Professor of Ottoman and Modern Turkish
Studies in the Department of Near Eastern
Languages and Civilizations. Topic TBA.
February 12
February 19
Dean’s Forum. Details TBA.
February 26
“Uniting a Community: A Journey of
Faith” by Dr. Shakeela Hassan, Professor
Emeritus in the Department of Anesthesia
and Critical Care in the Division of Biological
Wayne C. Booth, George M. Pullman
Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus in
the Department of English Language and
Literature and the College. Topic TBA.
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Jazz Guitar and Saxophone, featuring Daniel
Kynaston, Ph.D. student in the Divinity
School and solo jazz guitarist, and his father,
Trent Kynaston, Professor of Saxophone and
Jazz Studies at Western Michigan University. In
addition to developing a nationally recognized
jazz studies program, Professor Kynaston is a
founding member of the Western Jazz Quartet, a
group with seven CD releases and performances
all over the world, including France, Poland,
Italy, Scotland, Slovenia, Brazil, Costa Rica, and
Thailand, in addition to many cities here in the
United States. Father and son will reunite as the
Kynaston Duo for the first time in several years.
“Reflections on Women and Pentecostalism
in Madagascar” by Jennifer Cole, Assistant
Professor in the Committee on Human
Development.
January 29
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“Trauma and Spirituality: The Relationship
between Dissociation in Religious and
Psychiatric Settings” by Tanya Luhrmann,
Professor in the Committees on the History
of Culture and on Human Development.
March 12
WINTER QUARTER 2003
January 22
March 5
Please consult the Divinity School website for
calendar updates (http://divinity.uchicago.edu).
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An Interview with Hans-Josef Klauck
H
ANS-JOSEF KLAUCK joined the Divinity School faculty in the autumn of 2001 as Professor
of New Testament and Early Christian Literature. Previously, he served as Professor of
New Testament Exegesis at the Catholic Theological Schools of Rheinische Friedrich-WilhelmsUniversity in Bonn, Julius-Maximilians-University in Würzburg, and Ludwig-MaximiliansUniversity in Munich. The year prior to coming to Chicago, he served as Honorary Professor of
New Testament Exegesis at the Dutch Reformed Theological School of the University of Pretoria
in South Africa. A distinguished scholar, Professor Klauck has published extensively in his
field, employing a History of Religions approach that makes him particularly well suited to Chicago’s
curriculum.
CIRCA: What is the focus of your academic
research and teaching?
H-J K: My research focuses generally on New
Testament and early Christian literature. In
particular, I consider the writings of the New
Testament in a way that takes into account
their Greco-Roman background. More recently,
I have expanded my interests to include the
apocryphal writings to the New Testament.
In each of these areas, I have found a History
of Religions and Social History approach to
be especially illuminating. This is reflected
in all of my published work, including The
Religious Context of Early Christianity: A Guide
to Greco-Roman Religions (2000); Magic and
Paganism in Early Christianity (2000); and
the forthcoming Apocryphal Gospels: An
Introduction and Religion and Society in Early
Christianity, a collection of sixteen of my
essays. My teaching encompasses not only
these research interests but also new avenues
that I am interested in exploring. For example,
last spring I offered a course on quotations
and allusions to the Old Testament in the
Gospel of John, and next year I may teach
a similar course on Romans or Canonical
Acts. In future courses, I would like to
explore Galatians, Revelations, the Gospel
of Matthew, or the Gospel of Luke with
my students.
CIRCA: Tell us a little bit about your background and what led you into the study of
New Testament and early Christian literature?
H-J K: After I completed my high school
education, I joined the Franciscan order and
began to study philosophy and theology. I
completed five years of coursework in these
areas, and was eventually ordained a Catholic
priest in 1972. I spent the next two years
working in a parish, during which time I began
to formulate an interest in New Testament
exegesis. I wrote two papers on the subject,
both of which were published in scholarly
journals. In 1975, I gained permission from
my superiors to pursue my studies at Munich
University. I received my doctorate there in
1977, and my Habilitation in 1980. I have
taught and published in the field ever since,
although mostly in Germany and in German.
Coming to Chicago thus marks a major shift
in my career.
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“A highly stimulating aspect
of education here at the
Divinity School, for which
there is no equivalent in
Germany, is team teaching.”
CIRCA: What have you discovered to be
the major differences between American
and German systems of education?
H-J K: The systems are difficult to compare,
since they are based on very different philosophies. In my limited understanding of the
American system, I believe that Chicago is
unique, which makes it even harder for me
to offer a good analysis. However, an obvious
difference is that the four years that students
in America spend in an undergraduate college,
in Germany are divided between high school
and graduate school. There are no undergraduate studies in Germany. Furthermore,
Germany does not really offer doctoral programs. Of course, there are doctoral studies
and you can get your doctoral degree, but
there is no program per se. Once you have
finished your graduate studies, you are more
or less on your own to write your thesis.
Another major difference is that a doctoral
degree in Germany does not carry the same
time commitment or weight that a doctoral
degree in this country carries. In Germany,
a doctoral degree does not give you the right
to apply for an academic position; you must
first earn your Habilitation, something for which
there is no real equivalent here in the United
States. Earning your Habilitation usually means
that you have published your second book,
your first having been published for your
doctoral degree. It took me five years to get
both my doctoral degree and my Habilitation,
which is atypical; it usually takes eight or
more years.
A highly stimulating aspect of education
here at the Divinity School, for which there
is no equivalent in Germany, is team teaching.
We use it in a new seminar we’ve designed
for students in the Department of New Testament and Early Christian Literature. Last
winter quarter, Hans Dieter Betz and Christopher
Faraone team-taught the seminar on magical
texts. Next year, Margaret Mitchell and
David Martinez will co-teach the seminar
on Philostratus’ Heroicus. The year after that,
I may co-teach the seminar on Plutarch.
I—and I think the students would agree—
find this to be a very rewarding method
of learning, one that is mostly unheard of
in Germany.
CIRCA: How would you compare the
approaches to your field of study in Germany
and at Chicago?
H-J K: In the biblical field, at least as far as
the New Testament is concerned, the differences are not so great because there are
international guidelines. But even within
this common ground there are differences in
emphasis. In the United States, for example,
there is greater interest than in Germany in
using a Social History and History of Religions
approach. This approach, which is, of course,
especially strong here at the Divinity School,
complements my research well. I employed it
in my Habilitationschrift on the Lord’s Supper
and Hellenistic cults. While the book met
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Divinity School Autumn and Winter Events
Pew Forum Lecture
by Charles Villa-Vicencio
Wednesday, October 30
4:00 p.m., Swift Lecture Hall
Dr. Charles Villa-Vicencio will deliver the first
lecture in the Pew Forum on Religion and Public
Life Lecture Series “Does the Idea of Human
Rights Need God?” Dr. Villa-Vicencio was formerly
Professor of Religious Studies at the University
of Cape Town, South Africa, and the National
Research Director for the South Africa Truth
and Reconciliation Commission. He now serves
as the Executive Director of the Institute for
Justice and Reconciliation in Cape Town.
Divinity School AAR/SBL Reception
Sunday, November 24
9:00–11:00 p.m., Dominion Ballroom, Sheraton
Centre Toronto, Canada
All Divinity School alumni and friends are invited
to attend a reception at the annual meeting of the
American Academy of Religion and the Society
for Biblical Literature, to be held this year in
Toronto, Canada. For more information, please
contact Molly Bartlett by phone at 773-702-8248,
or by email at [email protected].
Wabash Center Lecture
in the Arts of Pedagogy
Friday, November 1
4:00 p.m., Swift Lecture Hall
Conversations in Divinity
with Paul Mendes-Flohr
Thursday, October 3
5:30 p.m., Chicago Cultural Center
78 East Washington Street
Southwest Meeting Room
“‘God Created the World, Not Religion’: Franz
Rosenzweig and the Jewish Affirmation of the
God of Revelation” by Paul Mendes-Flohr,
Professor of Modern Jewish Thought in the
Divinity School.
Conversations in Divinity, a quarterly series, is
free. Parking is available at the Wabash/Randolph
Self-Park at 30 East Randolph Street. Elevators
to the fifth floor are inside the Washington
Street entrance to the Cultural Center.
To register or for more information, please contact Molly Bartlett by phone at 773-702-8248,
or by email at [email protected].
John Stratton Hawley, Professor of Religion (with
major interests in Hindu devotional religion and
Hindu nationalism) at Barnard College in New
York City, will consider the relationship between
comparative study and undergraduate pedagogy.
A Pew Forum “Public Exchange”:
The Theological Dimensions of
Human Cloning and Stem Cell Research
Friday, November 15
9:30 a.m., Swift Lecture Hall
Gilbert Meilaender, Professor of Christian Ethics
at Valparaiso University and a member of the
President’s Council on Bioethics, will join Divinity
School alumnus Richard Miller, Professor of
Religious Studies at Indiana University, for a
moderated discussion on this controversial and
important topic.
Schubert M. Ogden, Professor Emeritus at
Perkins School of Theology at Southern Methodist
University in Dallas, Texas, will lead a three-session
seminar at the Divinity School, a discussion with
students, and a Ministry student luncheon. This
is the first in a program of invited visits extended
by the Martin Marty Center to senior scholars
of religion who spend a week at the Divinity
School discussing their work and its significance
for future scholarship.
Wabash Center Arts of Teaching Panel:
When to Compare, What to Compare,
and How to Do It
Friday, February 21
Time TBA, Swift Lecture Hall
Is a comparative methodological approach to
the undergraduate study of religion as important
as simply comparing different traditions across
the same grid? In what ways can we introduce
comparison to the non-major who may only take
one religious studies course? How does teaching
comparatively affect the way we do our research?
In presentations and panel discussions, teachers
from different fields and institutions will consider
what works and why. Conference details will
be announced on the Marty Center website (http://
marty-center.uchicago.edu).
All events are open to the public.
•“The Problem of Formally Normative
Witness”
Monday, October 14
4:00–5:30 p.m., Swift Common Room
•“The Problem of Divine Agency”
Tuesday, October 15
4:00–5:30 p.m., Swift Common Room
•“The Problem of the Truth about
Human Existence”
Wednesday, October 16
4:00–5:30 p.m., Swift Common Room
•Ministry Luncheon
Friday, October 18
12:00 noon–1:30 p.m., Swift Common Room
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Thursday, January 9
5:30 p.m., Chicago Cultural Center
78 East Washington Street
Southwest Meeting Room
A conversation with David Tracy, Andrew
Thomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley
Distinguished Service Professor of Catholic
Studies, and Professor of Theology and
Philosophy of Religion in the Divinity School.
A Seminar by Schubert M. Ogden:
Basic Problems of Systematic Theology
•Student Discussion:
Is There Only One True Religion. . . ?
Thursday, October 17
12:00 noon–1:30 p.m., Swift 106
Conversations in Divinity
with David Tracy
Pew Christian Scholars Conference
Wednesday, February 26
Time TBA, Swift Lecture Hall
For calendar updates, please check
the Divinity School website
at http://divinity.uchicago.edu.
A major conference on the relationship
between theology and politics. Speakers will
include Francis Cardinal George, philosophers
Charles Taylor and Nicholas Wolterstorff, and
theologians Robin Lovin and Jean Porter.
Details will be announced on the Pew Forum’s
website (www.pewforum.org).
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Marty Center News and Events
T
HE MARTY CENTER builds on a long-standing
conviction of the Divinity School that the best and most
innovative scholarship in religion emerges from sustained
dialogue with the wider society. In all of its projects, the Marty
Center ought to serve as a robust “circulatory system” that strengthens
and extends scholarly inquiry by moving it through faculty, student,
and public bodies of deliberation.
—W. Clark Gilpin, Director of the Marty Center
Report from the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life
T
he Divinity School office of the Pew
Forum on Religion and Public Life
has been active this year fulfilling
the organization’s charge to promote a deeper
understanding of how religion shapes the
ideas and institutions of American society.
Headed by Forum Co-chair and Divinity
School Professor Jean Bethke Elshtain, the
Chicago office also includes Project Coordinator John Carlson and Research Associates
Erik Owens and Mieke Holkeboer. As doctoral candidates in the Divinity School, they
incorporate their research interests in religious
ethics into the conception and development
of Forum events.
As part of an ongoing project on religion
and the death penalty (which began in January 2002 with a major conference entitled
“A Call for Reckoning”), the Pew Forum
brought Illinois Governor George Ryan to
Swift Hall in June to speak on the death
penalty in Illinois. Governor Ryan used the
occasion to discuss publicly for the first time
how his faith influenced his decision to
impose a moratorium on the death penalty,
and how it continues to inform his ongoing
deliberation about the many pending death
row cases in the state. Governor Ryan’s address
will be published in the autumn 2002 issue
of Criterion, and it will appear next year as a
chapter in A Call for Reckoning: Religion and
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the Death Penalty, edited by John Carlson,
Eric Elshtain, and Erik Owens. The volume,
published by Eerdmans, contains chapters by
distinguished jurists, political leaders, and
scholars (many of whom delivered addresses
at the January conference), including Supreme
Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Oklahoma
Governor Frank Keating, Avery Cardinal
Dulles, Christian theologian Stanley Hauerwas,
and Jewish theologian David Novak.
In June 2002, staff members John Carlson
and Erik Owens completed the manuscript
The Sacred and the Sovereign: Rethinking Religion
and International Politics; it includes proceedings from a Divinity School conference held
in 2000, and will be published by Georgetown
University Press next spring. This edited
volume brings together an unusually diverse
group of contributors (including theologians;
political theorists; public intellectuals; and
leaders in media, military, and diplomatic
affairs) to explore the complex relationships
among religion, international politics, and
changing understandings of sovereignty—a
topic with renewed relevance in the aftermath
of September 11.
During the upcoming academic year, the
Pew Forum will host a number of events at the
Divinity School. On Wednesday, October 30,
the Forum begins a multi-part lecture series
entitled “Does the Idea of Human Rights Need
God?” with an address by the Reverend Charles
Villa-Vicencio, Executive Director for the
Institute for Justice and Reconciliation in Cape
Town, South Africa. Mr. Villa-Vicencio was
Professor of Religious Studies at the University
of Cape Town and the National Research
Director for the South Africa Truth and
Reconciliation Commission, which investigated atrocities committed by the apartheid
government and the anti-apartheid forces.
On Friday, November 15, the Pew Forum
will hold a “public exchange” between two
prominent theological ethicists about the
theological dimensions of human cloning
and stem cell research. Gilbert Meilaender,
Professor of Christian Ethics at Valparaiso
University and a member of the President’s
Council on Bioethics, will join Divinity
School alumnus Richard Miller, Professor of
Religious Studies at Indiana University, for
a moderated discussion on this controversial
and important topic.
On February 26, 2003, the Pew Forum is
co-sponsoring (with the Pew Christian Scholars
program) a major conference on the relationship between theology and politics. Speakers
will include Francis Cardinal George, philosophers Charles Taylor and Nicholas Wolterstorff,
and theologians Robin Lovin and Jean Porter.
For more information about Pew Forum
events and projects, please visit its website
(www.pewforum.org).
Schubert M. Ogden
Appointed Visiting Senior
Scholar in Religion
T
he Marty Center has initiated a new
program designed to bring a senior
scholar of religion to spend a week at
the Divinity School discussing his or her work
and its significance for future scholarship.
Schubert M. Ogden, Professor Emeritus at
Perkins School of Theology at Southern
Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, will be
the Center’s first Visiting Senior Scholar in
Religion. He will lead a three-session seminar
in Swift Hall during the autumn quarter on
basic problems of systematic theology. The first
seminar, to be held on Monday, October 14,
will focus on the topic “The Problem of
Formally Normative Witness.” The second
seminar, “The Problem of Divine Agency,”
will be held on Tuesday, October 15; and
the third seminar, “The Problem of the
Truth About Human Existence,” will be
held on Wednesday, October 16. All events
are open to the public. Please see details on
the seminars’ times and locations under
“Autumn and Winter Events” (page 5).
C I R C A
Marty Center Fellows 2002–2003
E
ach year, the Martin Marty Center,
in consultation with the Divinity
School faculty, selects Dissertation
Fellows to promote critical discussion of
current research across “sub-fields” of the
study of religion that all too frequently do
not interact.
Fellows assist in one of two yearlong
seminars. The first is the Marty Center
Research Seminar, co-led by Kathryn
Tanner and W. Clark Gilpin in 2002–2003.
This is a vigorously interdisciplinary group,
composed not only of Dissertation Fellows
writing dissertations on religion in the
Divinity School or other departments of
the University of Chicago, but also Senior
Research Fellows in residence at the Marty
Center while on sabbatical leave from their
own universities.
The second seminar is the Chicago
Forum on Theology and Religion, led by
Catherine Brekus in 2002–2003. The Forum
is designed to help graduate students “step
back” from the immediacies of specialized
research, in order to ask themselves how that
research will contribute to the educational
institutions and the society in which they
hope to pursue their scholarly vocations.
SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOWS
Dennis Beach, OSB
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Saint John’s
University, Collegeville, Minnesota
Norbert Hintersteiner
Scientific Collaborator, Institute of Dogmatic
Theology, University of Vienna, Austria
M. Cathleen Kaveny
John P. Murphy Foundation Professor of Law and
Professor of Theology, Notre Dame Law School,
Notre Dame, Indiana
DISSERTATION FELLOWS
Each year, the Center selects
Dissertation Fellows to promote
critical discussion of current
research across “sub-fields” of
the study of religion that all
too frequently do not interact.
Kenneth S. Bigger, Religious Ethics
Jeremy Biles, Religion and Literature
Thomas R. Blanton, Biblical Studies
Thomas Borchert, History of Religions
David Clairmont, Religious Ethics
Robert Fisher, Philosophy of Religion
Jonathan Gold, Philosophy of Religion
Mieke Holkeboer, Theology
Kristen Kearns, Theology
Michael Kessler, Religious Ethics
Kaitlin Magoon, Theology
Erik Owens, Religious Ethics
Caroline C. Tolton, History of Christianity
Kevin J. Wanner, History of Religions
Amy C. Graves, Romance Languages and
Literatures, Humanities Division
Brandon Johnson, History, Social Sciences Division
Ernst Karel, Human Development,
Social Sciences Division
Chicago Forum on Pedagogy and the Study of Religion
T
he Chicago Forum on Pedagogy and
the Study of Religion will devote its
second year, 2002–2003, to the theme
“The Theory and Practice of Comparative
Work.” Many agree that the underlying premise
of religious studies as an academic discipline
within an undergraduate liberal arts curriculum
is that it should be approached comparatively.
There is less agreement about either the goals
or the methods that are applied. Critics warn
against approaches that create either an us–
them mentality or an attitude of extreme
relativism in students. Graduate students
face the additional challenge of having to
move to comparative approaches in their
teaching, while their own research is closely
focused on their dissertations. This year, the
Forum will ask why studying religion comparatively is valued and explore the different
ways in which it might be done.
On November 1, 2002, John Stratton
Hawley of Barnard College will give the
Wabash Center Lecture on the relationship
between comparative study and undergraduate
pedagogy. The lecture will take place at 4:00 p.m.
in Swift Lecture Hall, with a reception to
follow. All are welcome to attend. On February 21, 2003, a one-day conference entitled
“When to Compare, What to Compare, and
How to Do It” will be held in Swift Lecture
Hall. Participants will include teachers from
different fields and from institutions with
different types of student bodies. In presentations and panel discussions, the conference
will consider what works and why. Is a comparative approach to methodology as important
as simply comparing different traditions across
the same grid? In what ways can we introduce
comparison to the non-major who may only
A U T U M N
2 0 0 2
take one religious studies course? How does
teaching comparatively affect the way we do
our research? This conference is also open
to the public.
A major goal of the Chicago Forum on
Pedagogy is to encourage graduate students
at the Divinity School to consider pedagogy
as an important part of their lives as scholars.
Each year we select ten graduate students as
Wabash Fellows. The fellows for 2002–2003
are listed below:
WABASH FELLOWS
Nancy Arnison, Theology
Elizabeth Bucar, Religious Ethics
David Clairmont, Religious Ethics
Robert Fisher, Philosophy of Religion
Deborah Green, History of Judaism
Karin Meyers, Philosophy of Religion
Shubha Pathak, History of Religions
Charlotte Radler, History of Christianity
Gabriel Robinson, History of Religions
Susan Zakin, History of Religions
In addition to meetings throughout the year
in conjunction with the Wabash Center
Lecture and the conference, the graduate
student fellows will meet several times in
the spring quarter in a workshop entitled
“The Introductory Course.” A primary place
where undergraduates become acquainted
with comparative approaches to the study
of religion is the introductory course. The
goal of this workshop is to familiarize graduate
students with some of the most popular and
influential textbooks and source readers used
in introductory religious studies classes, as
well as with course syllabi used at a number
of representative institutions. Students will
also have the opportunity to plan their own
introductory courses.
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News from the Alumni Council
T
tithe that amount! But we will be challenged
to support the Divinity School in more substantial ways than we have done in years past.
At the meeting, we bade farewell to three
retiring members of the Council who have
contributed much to its deliberations in the
past three years: Henry Bruner, Lisa Sowle
Cahill, and Laurie Patton. We welcome
three new alumni to the group: Tim S.
Lee, Dennis Landon, and Anita Houck.
As the campaign begins to flourish, let
us explore ways to invigorate the life of the
Divinity School by being faithful alumni.
he Divinity School Alumni Council
convened for its annual spring meeting on May 3, 2002. The previous
afternoon, Council members gathered in
Swift Hall to hear a lecture by the Divinity
School’s Alumnus of the Year for 2001,
Daniel L. Overmyer (Ph.D. 1971), Professor
of Religious Studies at the University of
British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.
Although much of the meeting focused
on customary themes and issues—how to
strengthen the engagement of alumni with
the Divinity School and how to improve
the experience of current students in Swift
Hall—a particular topic distinguished the
meeting: the Divinity School’s participation
in the University’s two-billion-dollar capital
campaign, the Chicago Initative. Thankfully,
Divinity School alumni are not expected to
Sincerely,
Joe Price, President
SPRING 2002
■ M.A.
Dean of Students’ Report
Enrollment
This autumn, the Divinity School enrolled 61 entering degree candidates
(6 A.M.R.S., 37 M.A., 9 M.Div., 9 Ph.D.), including 6 African American and
6 international students. A two-day general orientation was held for new students
from September 26 to 27.
Graduation and Placement
During 2001–2002, 79 students graduated from the Divinity School in one of
the University’s autumn, winter, spring, or summer convocations: 31 M.A.,
11 M.Div., 2 D.Mn., and 35 Ph.D. Fourteen graduates accepted tenure track
appointments and 8 accepted term appointments.
Convocations
Joseph A. Edelheit
Amy B. Lavine
History of Religions
Parimal O. Patil
Philosophy of Religion
Elizabeth L. Profit
History of Christianity
Brenda J. Shaver
Biblical Studies
Eric R. Sorensen
Biblical Studies
■ Ph.D.
WINTER 2002
AUTUMN 2001
■ M.A.
Tonya N. Kessler
Laura A. Lewellyn
■ M.Div.
Michael Christiana
■ D.Mn.
Karen L. Anderson
History of Religions
Isabelle F. Kinnard
Theology
David K. Larsen
History of Christianity
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■ M.A.
Greg B. Johnson
■ Ph.D.
Wendy L. Anderson
History of Christianity
Kristin A. Beise
Philosophy of Religion
Matthew J. Goff
Biblical Studies
Katherine J. Jones
Philosophy of Religion
Ronney B. Mourad
Philosophy of Religion
Christian M. Sheppard
Religion and Literature
Sarita S. Tamayo
History of Christianity
Vincent J. Adams
Taichi Araki
Barbra Barnett
Jeffrey D. Bell
Jack E. Brooks
Leah R. Brown
Benjamin H. Butler
Eleanor F. Cartelli
Ryan D. Coyne
Adam W. Darlage
Nathaniel A. Day
Tracie B. Guy
Darren L. Hartman
Gary T. Hohbein
Jeffrey D. Jay
Anne K. Knafl
Daniel W. Kynaston
Larisa R. Masri
Jennifer L. Muslin
Aaron P. Rester
Harvind K. Rikhiraj
Stephen G. Streed
Kristen J. Tobey
Nicholas S. Turner
Jessica L. Vantine
Pesach A. D. Weinstein
■ M.Div.
Warren O. Chain
Peder J. Jothen
Meggan H. Manlove
Elizabeth J. Myer
Jaime R. Polson
Christopher D. Rodkey
■ Ph.D.
Daniel A. Arnold
Philosophy of Religion
Matthew C. Baldwin
Biblical Studies
Philippe Eberhard
Theology
T. Patrick Hill
Religious Ethics
Karina M. Hogan
Biblical Studies
Harvey J. Markowitz
History of Christianity
Daniel J. Meckel
Religion and the
Human Sciences
Mark Modak-Truran
Religious Ethics
Scott D. Nielsen
Religion and Literature
Brooke E. Olson
History of Religions
Allen W. Singleton
Philosophy of Religion
Brett T. Wilmot
Religious Ethics
Robert K. Wilson-Black
History of Christianity
Robert A. Yelle
History of Religions
SUMMER 2002
■ M.A.
Sarabinh Levy-Brightman
Esmerelda E. Negron
■ M.Div.
Brian K. Hunter
■ D.Mn.
Larry E. Turpin
■ Ph.D.
Scott G. Huelin
Religion and Literature
Gregory P. Grieve
History of Religions
Marcus R. Kunz
History of Christianity
Susanna Morrill
History of Religions
Robin A. O’Sullivan
History of Christianity
Katherine E. Ulrich
History of Religions
■ M.Div.
Diana Ventura
SOME OF OUR Ph.D. GRADUATES are available for appointment. Their resumes can
be accessed online at http://divinity.uchicago.edu/resumebook/index.html.
C I R C A
Divinity School News
New Dual Degree Programs
with the Law School
“At the Divinity School”
E-calendar
I
I
n the autumn of 2002, the Divinity
School and the Law School inaugurated
their new dual degree programs for students
whose professional plans require training both
in religion and in law. Students may now apply
to do a dual A.M.R.S./J.D., A.M./J.D., M.Div./J.D.,
or Ph.D./J.D. The Divinity School already
offers dual degree programs with the School
of Social Service Administration and the
Irving B. Harris School of Public Policy
Studies. For more information about the
School’s degree programs, please contact the
Dean of Students’ Office at 773-702-8217.
n the autumn of 2001, the Divinity
School sent out its first “At the Divinity
School” email. Formerly a paper calendar
that was sent out twice a year, the new calendar is sent out electronically on the first
of each month to local colleges, theological
schools, and interested friends and alumni.
For those interested in subscribing to “At
the Divinity School,” please send an email
to jquijano @midway.uchicago.edu. Events
are also advertised on the Divinity School’s
online calendar at http://divinity.uchicago.edu.
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Student Fellowships and Grants 2002–2003
DIVINITY
SCHOOL PRIZES
Milo P. Jewett Prize
Thomas Blanton
Biblical Studies
Caroline Tolton
History of Christianity
John Gray Rhind Award
Jeffrey Jay
M.A. program
J. Coert Rylaarsdam
Prize
Nathan Kline
M.Div. program
Shubha Pathak
History of Religions
Ajay Rao
History of Religions
Doolittle Fellowships
Claudia Bergmann
Biblical Studies
Erik Davis
History of Religions
Jonathan Ebel
History of Christianity
Mieke Holkeboer
Theology
Kyonghwa Jung
Religious Ethics
Michael Kessler
Religious Ethics
UNIVERSITY GRANTS
Committee on
South Asian Studies:
Conference Travel Grant
Alicia Turner
History of Religions
Summer Language Stipends
Anthony Cerulli
History of Religions
Brian Collins
M.A. program
Travel Grant
Karin Meyers
Philosophy of Religion
Pre-dissertation Field
Research Grant
Erik Davis
History of Religions
Dissertation Grant
Kristin Bloomer
Theology
Dissertation Write-up Grant
Thomas Borchert
History of Religions
Jonathan Gold
Philosophy of Religion
Richard Nance
Philosophy of Religion
A U T U M N
2 0 0 2
East Asian Studies
Yuki Miyamoto
Religious Ethics
Harper Dissertation
Fellowship
Charlotte Radler
History of Christianity
Trustees Award
Warren Chain
Religious Ethics
Rory Johnson
Psychology and
Sociology of Religion
Tonya Kessler
M.A. program
Michelle Mustonen
History of Religions
Elizabeth Perez
History of Religions
Santiago Piñón
Theology
EXTERNAL GRANTS
American Institute of
Indian Studies (AIIS)
Fellowships
Laura Desmond
History of Religions
Blake Wentworth
History of Religions
Beinecke Brothers
Memorial Scholarship
Laura Hollinger
M.Div. program
Charlotte W. Newcombe
Doctoral Dissertation
Fellowship
Jason Carbine
History of Religions
Earhart Foundation
Dissertation Fellowship
Jerome Copulsky
Theology
Evangelical Lutheran
Church of America
Fellowships
Nancy Arnison
Theology
Claudia Bergmann
Biblical Studies
Peder Jothen
Theology
Elizabeth Musselman
Theology
Bruce Rittenhouse
Theology
Courtney Wilder
Theology
Gilder-Lehrman
Dissertation Fellowship
(Institute of American
History)
Jonathan Ebel
History of Christianity
Illinois Consortium for
Educational Opportunity
Program (ICEOP)
Fellowship
Michelle Mustonen
History of Religions
Elizabeth Perez
History of Religions
Javits Fellowship
Jyoti Raghu
M.A. program
Josephine de Kárman
Dissertation Fellowship
Matthew Boulton
Theology
Lady Davis Fellowship
Sharon Mattila
Biblical Studies
Louis Duprée Prize
Patrick Hatcher
History of Religions
Fulbright DDRA
Fellowship
William Elison
History of Religions
Louisville Institute
Dissertation Fellowship
Matthew Boulton
Theology
Hilda Koster
Theology
Fulbright-Hayes
Dissertation Abroad
Fellowship
Blake Wentworth
History of Religions
Lumen Christi Institute
Science and Religion
Dissertation Fellowship
Michael Epperson
Philosophy of Religion
The Fund for
Theological Education
Warren Chain
Religious Ethics
Memorial Foundation for
Jewish Culture
Deborah Green
History of Judaism
National Resource
(Title IV or FLAS)
Fellowships
Kristin Bloomer
Theology (Tamil)
Elizabeth Bucar
Religious Ethics (Arabic)
Brian Collins
M.A. program (Hindi)
Leslie Cushner
M.A. program (Tibetan)
Christian Hummel
M.A. program
(Serbo-Croatian)
Karin Meyers
Philosophy of Religion
(Tibetan)
Eloise Nelson
M.A. program
(Portuguese)
Aaron Rester
History of Religions (Hindi)
Scott Richard
History of Religions (Urdu)
Pesach Weinstein
M.A. program (Hindi)
Jonathan Young
M.A. program (Tamil)
Susan Zakin
History of Religions (Urdu)
Scaife Alumni
Scholarship
Eloise Violet Nelson
M.A. program
Wexner Graduate
Fellowship
Jane Kanarek
History of Judaism
Yale University
Center for Religion
and American Life
Fellowship
Jonathan Ebel
History of Christianity
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Gifts to the Divinity School 2001–2002
O
n April 12, 2002, University of Chicago President Don
Michael Randel and University Board of Trustees Chairman
Edgar Jannotta launched the public phase of a major
capital campaign, the Chicago Initiative.
The Divinity School is participating in
the campaign, and our ambitious goal is to
raise $16 million to increase student financial assistance; establish three professorships
at the School; build programs in the Martin
Marty Center; and make modest improvements to the building, including creating
practical study space and improving space
in the coffee shop. A fifth and key goal is
to increase the number of contributors to
the Fund for the Divinity School, our
annual fund.
Although the Divinity School raised
well over $1 million this year, fundraising
progress overall was disappointing. No
doubt, the horrific events of September 11
and the dramatic economic downturn influenced charitable giving. While our 2001–2002
annual fund income was nearly equal to last
year’s record income, we received gifts from
far fewer alumni and friends. This significant drop in the number of donors to our
core fundraising program came in a year
when we had determined that a priority for
our fundraising efforts was to increase the
number of annual fund donors.
In addition to the Fund for the Divinity
School’s receipt of $154,500, contributed by
generous alumni and friends, the School also
received over $383,000 in estate gifts. These
included a munificent gift to the Rolland
Walter Schloerb Fellowship in Ministry
Studies Fund of nearly $300,000 from the
estate of Helen Kotas Hirsch; a final gift of
$50,000 to the Dorothy Grant Maclear
Professorship Fund from the estate of James
F. Maclear; and a gift of over $32,000 from
the estate of Elizabeth Z. Burkhart.
In addition, the Divinity School received
over $200,000 in major gifts. Dr. Robert Wells
and Mrs. Jean Carton generously provided
over $43,000 to support the School, and
Anthony and Priscilla Yu made the first gift
toward fulfillment of a generous five-year
pledge of $25,000 to establish the Nathan
and Charlotte Scott Dissertation Fund.
We are grateful for the generosity of our
alumni and friends, and grateful for the
philanthropy of the Lynde and Harry
Bradley Foundation, Inc.; the Center for
the Scientific Study of Religion; the
Chapin May Foundation of Illinois; the
Field Foundation of Illinois; the Henry
Luce Foundation, Inc.; the Pew Charitable
Trusts; and Wabash College.
Molly Bartlett
Associate Dean for External Relations
The Dean’s Circle
The Harper Society
The Harper Society
T
he Harper Society
was established by the
University of Chicago to honor
donors whose annual gifts are
equal to or above $25,000.
This year, the Divinity School
and the University gratefully
acknowledge the generosity
of Harper Society members
Ernest Cadman Colwell
Fellows $10,000 +
Shailer Mathews Fellows
$2,500–$4,999
Aileen S. Andrew
Foundation
Mrs. Jerald C. Brauer
Mrs. Florence F. and
Mr. C. Russell Cox
Mrs. Margaret C. Fallers
Nuveen Benevolent Trust
Mrs. John Shedd Reed
Mr. and Mrs. Dean L. Buntrock
Mrs. Emily Huggins Fine
Mrs. Patricia E. Kauffman
Mr. Martin E. and Harriet Marty
Mr. Daniel R. Murray
The Pew Charitable Trusts
Mr. Geoffrey L. and
Mrs. Joanne C. Stringer
Shirley Jackson Case
Fellows $5,000–$9,999
Eri B. Hulbert Fellows
$1,000–$2,499
Mr. Robert L. and
Mrs. Sheila R. Berner, Jr.
The Donnelley Foundation
Rev. Nina Donnelley
The Field Foundation
of Illinois, Inc.
Mr. Oliver Nicklin
The John Nuveen Company
Mr. Stephen S. Peterson
The Pew Charitable Trusts
The Phi Beta Kappa Society
Mr. Robert G. * and
Mrs. Mary Wegner Schloerb
Mrs. Ella D. and
Mr. Richard P. Strubel
Dr. and Mrs. Anthony C. Yu
Barclays Global Investors
Boston College
Mr. Stephen Stewart Bowen
Dr. Ann Cory Bretz
Ms. Mary Lou Brous
Dr. Lisa G. Sowle Cahill
Ms. Lisa A. Cavallari
in memory of Victoria Waters
Chapin-May Foundation
of Illinois
Mr. John C. and
Mrs. Jane B. Colman
Allan Cox and Associates, Inc.
Mr. Allan Cox
Mr. Robert W. Crowe
Mr. James R. and
Rev. Nina Herrmann Donnelley
Ms. Alexandra C. Earle
Mr. V. David and Mrs. Sonia
Hutchins Garrison
Rev. Carlson Gerdau
Mr. Donald A. Gillies *
Dr. Robert Wells and Mrs.
Jean Carton, whose gift will
provide much-needed support.
* Baptist Theological Union Trustee
Mr. W. Clark Gilpin
Mr. Larry L. Greenfield *
Mr. Ernest Otto Gundling
Estate of John J. Halko, Jr.
Hartmarx Charitable Foundation
Mr. Robert A. Helman
International Business Machines
Corporation
Jewish Federation
of Metropolitan Chicago
Mr. Randolph R. Kurtz
Lake Family Foundation
Mr. Charles W. Lake, Jr.
Mrs. Edward H. Levi
Mr. Andrew J. Lynch
University of Notre Dame
Mr. Paul Phillip and
Ms. Abigail Crampton Pribbenow
Mr. John Shedd Reed
Dr. John W. Reed *
Prof. and Mrs. Nathan Scott, Jr.
Ms. Valere Blair Scott
Mr. David V. Skoblow
Mr. David John Smith
and Ms. Jane R. Nozell
Mr. Frederick H. and Mrs.
Suzanne B. Stitt in memory
of Victoria Waters
Mrs. Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
and Mr. Barry Sullivan
Mrs. Barbara Kirchick and
Mr. Michael William Urbut
Mr. Alfred and
Mrs. Joan W. Ward
Ms. Eva J. Waters
in memory of Victoria Waters
Mr. Richard J. Wiebe
We are profoundly grateful for
their support.
For more information on giving opportunities and volunteering
for the Divinity School, please contact Molly Bartlett by phone at 773-702-8248,
or email her at mbartlet @ midway.uchicago.edu.
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C I R C A
The Honor Roll
Midway Club
$500–$999
Mr. Jay R. Calhoun
Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace
Ms. Anne E. Carr
Mr. Tim Child
Mr. Jonathan D. Day
R. R. Donnelley and Sons
Company
Mr. Kingman and
Mrs. Leslie Stone Douglass
Dr. Norman Farnsworth *
Mr. James L. and
Mrs. Margaret E. Foorman
Hon. Joan B. Gottschall
Mr. Stanislaus Grabarek
Mr. Robert M. Grant
Mr. John B. and
Mrs. Linda H. Hillman
Rev. Susan B. W. Johnson *
Mr. Thomas E. Lanctot
Mr. Paul and
Mrs. Carolyn Landahl
Mrs. Glen A. Lloyd
Mrs. Jill Carlotta and
Mr. David W. Maher
Mr. G. Michael McCrossin
Ms. Geraldine S. and
Mr. F. Richard Meyer
Dr. Donald William Musser
North Shore Baptist Church
Ms. Mary Cone and
Mr. Richard H. O’Riley
Rev. David B. Parke
Mr. Samuel C. Pearson, Jr.
Dr. John R. Phillips
Dr. Joseph Llewellyn Price II
Mr. Richard Alan
Rosengarten
Mrs. Harriet Rylaarsdam
Mr. John M. Schloerb *
Mr. David P. Schmidt and
Ms. Norma Michalski
Estate of Emaroy June Smith
Mr. Bart Stroupe
Dr. Douglas E. and
Mrs. Margie A. Sturm
Mr. James P. and
Mrs. Kathleen Marie Wind
Scholars Club
$250–$499
Mr. Hans Dieter and
Mrs. Christel Betz
Rev. Bernard R. Bonnot
Dr. Merle W. and
Dr. Eunice B. Boyer
Mr. and Mrs. Bernard
O. Brown
Mr. Frank B. B. Brown
Mr. Don S. and
Mrs. Carol L. Browning
Rev. John M. Buchanan
Mr. Harold E. Butz
Mr. John I. and
Ms. Patricia S. Cadwallader
Mr. Edwin Thomas
Callahan III
Mrs. Judith A. Demetriou *
Mrs. Rose B. Dyrud
Dr. Ralph H. Elliott *
Ms. Jean Bethke Elshtain
Mr. Wm. Trent Foley and
Ms. Pamela S. Kelley
Mr. Richard M. and Mrs.
Marguerite Franklin
Mr. David Paul Grandstrand
Mr. Norman F. Gustaveson
Dr. George P. Guthrie
Ms. Mary Catherine Henry
Mr. Richard J. Hoskins
Mrs. Carolyn C. Kinsley
Mr. Joel Kraemer
Mr. Emmet and
Mrs. Dianne W. Larkin
Lincoln Financial Group
Foundation
Mrs. Jeanne W. Loomer
Mr. Anthony M. Mallerdino
Mr. John Paul McCarthy
Ms. Margaret Mary Mitchell
Dr. John H. Patton
Rev. and Mrs. Everett L. Perry
Rev. Dr. Edward H. Piper
Mr. and Mrs. James T. Rhind
Mr. James Rurak
A U T U M N
Mr. William R. Schoedel
Ms. Susan Marie Simonaitis
Mr. G. Ralph Strohl
Mr. Robert Alan Super
USG Foundation, Inc.
Mr. Jimmy N. Walker *
Mr. Clark M. and
Mrs. Barbara E. Williamson
Mr. Robert K. Wilson-Black
Century Club
$100–$249
Abbott Laboratories Fund
Dr. Roger Ray Adams
Dr. Maria Ahlstrom
Ms. Phyllis D. Airhart
Mr. Edward Walter Amend
Mr. Alan B. Anderson
Mr. Pierre Fisher Auger and
Ms. Jill Fisher Auger
Dr. Richard P. Baepler
Rev. Philip R. Bane
Mr. Scott W. Barron
Ms. Molly Bartlett
Dr. Peter T. Beckman, Jr.
Mr. Robert D. Benne
Bennett and Associates
Dr. Thomas R. Bennett II
Mr. James M. Brandt
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The Religion and Culture Web Forum
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EGINNING IN JANUARY 2003,
Luther King, Jr. Mr. Gilpin is currently studying
the genre, with particular attention to sixteenthand seventeenth-century England, as Burke
Library Research Scholar at Union Theological
Seminary in New York.
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literary tradition that reaches from the Apostle
Paul to such twentieth-century figures as
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Dorothy Day, and Martin
Interview with Hans-Josef Klauck, continued from page 4
with success, the topic was highly unusual for
the German academy.
CIRCA: Does this explain your motivation
for coming to Chicago?
H-J K: The History of Religions emphasis
was certainly part of my motivation for coming
to the Divinity School. However, I must confess
that another motivation was the School’s
lighter teaching requirement. Professors in
Germany have twice the teaching courseload
and almost triple the number of students per
class compared with professors in the United
States. They also have to prepare four different
levels of students: those who plan to teach
in primary schools, those who plan to teach
in secondary schools, those who plan to teach
in ministry, and those who plan to go into
research and writing. Such a curriculum takes
up an enormous amount of time and energy,
and my teaching and writing suffered as a
result. The Divinity School, which caters only
to graduate students, offers me the opportunity to concentrate on teaching in a way
that I think is most beneficial to students.
It also gives me time to focus on writing.
Another motivation for me to come to
Chicago was the Divinity School’s non-
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denominational character. In Germany, the
departments still function on denominational
bases, which means that, as a Catholic, I was
only permitted to teach on a Catholic theological faculty. In Germany, the church has a
say in who gets appointed to faculties, even
at state universities, and this creates tensions
and divisions that I do not think are healthy
for the field of theological studies. This is a
uniquely German situation that can only be
explained historically. Furthermore, because
education is completely free in Germany,
an enormous strain is put on the economy,
and everyone suffers as a result, students and
teachers alike. Consequently, the system is
so overburdened that I believe it has reached
its limit.
on these texts in the Divinity School and in
the Department of New Testament and Early
Christian Literature will aid me greatly in my
research by allowing me to hone my thoughts
and to think about how to formulate them
in an intelligible and helpful way. Future
projects also include a graduate textbook on
the history of early Christianity for the Mohr
Siebeck publishing house in Tübingen, and
possibly a volume for the distinguished American commentary series Hermeneia, for which
I serve on the editorial board. In all of these
endeavors, I must say that I feel privileged to
be part of an institution that takes with equal
seriousness the education of its students and
the research of its faculty.
CIRCA: What do you hope to contribute to
the field in the next few years and how will
being at the Divinity School help you in that
endeavor?
“I feel privileged to be part
H-J K: I’ve just started to do more specialized
research on the apocryphal literature, as I
mentioned, and I plan to follow this, first by
writing a volume on apocryphal acts, and
then by writing on apocryphal apocalypses
and letters. Conducting doctoral seminars
of an institution that takes
with equal seriousness the
education of its students and
the research of its faculty.”
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