- Boston College Events
- ›
- Event Details
Annual Candlemas Lecture: Willie Jennings: To Hear the World Again: Giving Christians an Actual Doctrine of Creation
Willie Jennings is Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and Africana Studies at Yale Divinity School. His book The Christian Imagination: Theology and the Origins of Race (2010) won the American Academy of Religion Award of Excellence in the Study of Religion and the Grawemeyer Award in Religion. Englewood Review of Books called the work a “theological masterpiece.” Writing in the areas of liberation theologies, cultural identities, and anthropology, Jennings has authored more than 40 scholarly essays and nearly two-dozen reviews, as well as essays on academic administration and blog posts for Religion Dispatches. Jennings recently completed Acts: A Commentary, The Revolution of the Intimate and is at work on a new project on the doctrine of creation, tentatively titled Reframing the World. Jennings is an ordained Baptist minister and has served as interim pastor for several North Carolina churches.
Thursday, February 8, 2018 at 7:00pm
Devlin Hall, Room 101
Devlin Hall, Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
- Event Type
- Events by Audience
- Events by Interest
- Schools, Colleges & Units
- Web filters
-
Diversity & Inclusion (web), show on home page, Lowell Humanities Series
- Cost
-
Free
- Campus Calendar
- Lowell Humanities Series
- Sponsor
-
Lowell Humanities Series
- Contact
-
Lauren Wilwerding (lauren.wilwerding@bc.edu)
- Open To
-
Open to the public.
- Subscribe
- Google Calendar iCal Outlook