Chair of Christian Thought
Department of Classics and Religion
History
The Chair of Christian Thought was initiated in 1980. The original vision was to bring renowned scholars in the field of Christian thought to the University of Calgary and surrounding community. Thanks to leadership from J. Louis Lebel, President of Dome Petroleum and Chairman of the Fundraising Committee, the project reached its goal in June 1985.
Bridging the academy and faith communities
About
The Chair of Christian Thought brings the academic study of religion into the wider community through community events such as lectures and symposia while undertaking the normal activities of a university professor (teaching, research and publication)
Events
Annual sponsored events include four endowed lectures:
• The Bentall Lecture on Education and Theology
• The Iwaasa Lecture on Urban Theology
• The Lebel Lecture in Christian Ethics
• The Swanson Lecture in Spirituality
Contact
Chair of Christian Thought
Department of Classics & Religion
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta T2N 1N4
Canada
Current Chair

Carolyn Muessig
Dr. Carolyn Muessig
Professor Carolyn Muessig is the Chair of Christian Thought since July 2020. She specializes in Medieval Christianity, with particular emphasis on its devotional dimensions and the contribution of female teachers and preachers in Western Europe. Among her publications are The Faces of Women in the Sermons of Jacques de Vitry and The Stigmata in Medieval and Early Modern Europe. An award-winning teacher, she works with undergraduate and postgraduate students, and has supervised numerous PhD candidates and postdoctoral researchers. She is presently assessing the activities of medieval and early modern female preachers. Professor Muessig is committed to bringing together diverse communities from within and outside academe to explore the significance of Christianity in art, history and culture.
Chair Gordon Harland
Sept. 1986 – April 1987
Chair Alan Sell
Jan. 1988 – Dec. 1992
Seminar instructors
1993 – 1998
Grace Jantzen (University of Manchester)
Janice Soskice (Cambridge University)
Julius Lipner (Cambridge University)
Ursula King (Bristol University)
Chair Douglas Shantz
Sept. 1999 – August 2016
Research
Annual lectures
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Jan 29, 2022
Dr. Donyelle C. McCray
Associate Professor of Homiletics, Yale Divinity School- Chair of Christian Thought Bentall Lecture on Christian Education and Theology: Quilter as Truthteller? Harriet Powers, Rosie Lee Tomkins and their Stitched Sermons
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Feb. 27, 2021
Dr. Carolyn Muessig
Chair of Christian Thought
Department of Classics & Religion
University of Calgary- The Greatest Story Never Told: Female Preaching in Premodern Europe: An Afternoon with Dr. Carolyn Muessig
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Feb. 26, 2021
Dr. Carolyn Muessig
Chair of Christian Thought
Department of Classics & Religion
University of Calgary- Signs of leadership: Women and invisible stigmata in the late Middle Ages
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Feb. 25, 2021
Dr. Carolyn Muessig
Chair of Christian Thought
Department of Classics & Religion
University of Calgary- Spiritus Domini before Pope Francis: Women as spiritual advisors in medieval Italy
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Sept. 29, 2015
Dr. Ryan J. Williams
SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow
Department of Classics and Religion, University of Calgary- Challenges & Opportunities in Rehabilitating Extremist Offenders
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Sept. 28, 2015
Dr. Ryan J. Williams
SSHRC Post-Doctoral Fellow
Department of Classics and Religion, University of Calgary- Redeeming the “unredeemable”: Rehabilitating extremist offenders and what this teaches us about Peace-building
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Sept. 23, 2014
Dr. Steven Engler
Professor of Religious Studies
Humanities, Mount Royal University- Opportunities & Threats in the Global Study of Religions
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Sept. 22, 2014
Dr. Steven Engler
Professor of Religious Studies
Humanities, Mount Royal University- Multiple Religious Adherence & Boundary Crossing in Brazil
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Oct. 1, 2013
James K. A. Smith
Professor of Philosophy,
Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI- The Secular is Haunted: Inhabiting Our Cross-Pressured Present
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Sept. 30, 2013
James K. A. Smith
Professor of Philosophy,
Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI- Worship, Worldview & Cultural Liturgies
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Oct. 1, 2012
Anne Moore, Terence Penelhum, Tinu Ruparell, Douglas Shantz
Department of Classics and Religion, University of Calgary- Book Presentation and Panel Discussion: Christian Thought in the 21st Century: Agenda for the Future (Cascade Books, 2012)
- Presentation to Dr. Elizabeth Craigie
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Sept. 20, 2011
Professor Gordon Campbell
Leicester University (UK)- The History of the King James Bible as Literature and Sacred Text
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Sept. 19, 2011
Professor Gordon Campbell
Leicester University (UK)- The King James Bible Then and Now: how a 1611 Translation has impacted the English language
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Oct. 4, 2010
Dr. Anne Moore
Associate Professor
Department of Religious Studies, University of Calgary- Imaging Women in the Early Church: The Visual/Material Clues to Women's Leadership
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Feb. 2, 2010
Professor Joseph Wawrykow
Associate Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame- Jesus as True Human: Reflections on Aquinas' Pedagogical Strategies in Summa Theologia III
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Feb. 1, 2010
Professor Joseph Wawrykow
Associate Professor of Theology, University of Notre Dame- Thomas Aquinas Speaks to the Church Today: His Continuing Relevance
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Sept. 23, 2008
Rev. Dr. Brian Leslie Hebblethwaite
Fellow of Queens' College,
Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK- Scientific and Theological Explanations of the World: The Nature of Human Personhood
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Sept. 22, 2008
Rev. Dr. Brian Leslie Hebblethwaite
Fellow of Queens' College,
Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK- In Defence of Christianity
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March 25, 2008
Dr. Nicholas J. Watson
Professor of English and American Literature, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA- The Body of the Past: History and Imagination
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March 24, 2008
Dr. Nicholas J. Watson
Professor of English and American Literature, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA- Toward a History of Tolerance: Jews and Muslims in Medieval Christian Thought
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March 20, 2007
Dr. Tinu Ruparell
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Calgary- Two Dogmas of Interreligious Dialogue
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March 19, 2007
Dr. Tinu Ruparell
Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, University of Calgary- The Search for Truth in Interreligious Dialogue
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Oct. 4, 2005
Keith Ward
Regius Professor of Divinity, Oxford University- Islam and the West
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Oct. 3, 2005
Keith Ward
Regius Professor of Divinity, Oxford University- Christianity and the Indian Religious Traditions
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Feb. 5, 2003
Dr. Clark Pinnock and Dr. John B. Cobb Jr.
- A Dialogue on Issues between Process and Free Will Theists
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Feb. 4, 2003
Dr. John B. Cobb Jr.
- How Modern Science Has Changed Our View of God: Process Theology and the Bible
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Feb. 3, 2003
Dr. Clark Pinnock
- The Metaphysics of Love: Rethinking the Doctrine of God and His Relation to the World
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March 5, 2002
Rev. Dr. John Polkinghorne
Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge University- Recent Trends in Science and Religion
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March 4, 2002
Rev. Dr. John Polkinghorne
Fellow of Queen's College, Cambridge University- Can a Scientist Pray? Affirming both Religious and Scientific Responses to the World
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March 5, 2001
Douglas Shantz
Chair of Christian Thought, UCalgary- Women, Men and the Experience of God: Comparing Spiritual Autobiographies
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Jan. 26, 2001
Dr. Peter C. Erb
Professor of Religion and Culture, Wilfred Laurier University
Waterloo, Ontario- Bernard of Clairvaux on the Psychology, the 'Self,' and the Love of God
- Bishop Butler and the Analogy of Religion: Another Look at the English Enlightenment
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Jan. 25, 2001
Dr. Peter C. Erb
Professor of Religion and Culture, Wilfred Laurier University
Waterloo, Ontario- Murder, Espionage and other Christian Mysteries: Contemporary Christian Novelists in the Secular World
- Conversion and Politics in England and the Colonies: John Henry Newman and Pandita Ramabai
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Jan. 23, 2001
Prof. Lynn Szabo
Sessional Assistant Professor of English and Communications, Trinity Western University
Langley, British Columbia- The View from Here: Thomas Merton’s Poetic View of the World
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Sept. 18, 2021
Rev. Dr. Carmen Lansdowne
Executive Director, First United Church Community Ministry Society
and First United Church Social Housing Society- Lessons from the Streets: The liberative wisdom of Brené Brown in addressing multiple existential threats
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Sept. 17, 2021
Rev. Dr. Carmen Lansdowne
Executive Director, First United Church Community Ministry Society
and First United Church Social Housing Society- Broken Promises, Broken Systems: An Indigenous view of theodicy in the form of systemic injustice
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Oct. 24, 2020
Dr. Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Professor of History and Gender Studies
Calvin University- Jesus and John Wayne: An Afternoon with Dr. Kristin Kobes Du Mez
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Oct. 23, 2020
Dr. Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Professor of History and Gender Studies
Calvin University- Who is Evangelical? Defining American Evangelicalism and What's at Stake
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Oct. 22, 2020
Dr. Kristin Kobes Du Mez
Professor of History and Gender Studies
Calvin University- Why We Want to Kill You: Islamophobia in American Evangelicalism
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Nov. 2, 2015
Professors Douglas H. Shantz and David G. Dick
University of Calgary- Panel on Money & Religious Virtue: From the Eye of the Needle to the Prosperity Gospel
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Feb. 2, 2015
Panel on Addressing Poverty in Calgary: Issues, Challenges, and Strategies
Derek Cook
Former Executive Director of the Calgary Poverty Reduction Initiative- Why Jesus Didn't Talk Very Much About the Poor | Download »
Darrell Howard
Community Facilitator at Vibrant Communities Calgary- Darrell Howard on Poverty | Download »
Jeff Loomis
Executive Director at Momentum: Community Economic Development Society- Poverty is Not only about money... | Download »
- Poverty presentation | Download »
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Jan. 21, 2013
Panel on Homelessness: Bringing Many Perspectives to Bear on a Human Tragedy
Deputy Mayor Gael MacLeod
Deputy Mayor of Calgary- Greetings
Dr. John Rook
CEO, Calgary Homeless Foundation- Homelessness as a social problem
Bishop Fred Henry
Roman Catholic Bishop of Calgary- Homelessness as a spiritual problem
Mr. John Bodman
Formerly homeless for years- Homelessness as a personal problem
Susan Scott
Author of The Beginning of the End- Book signing
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Jan. 31, 2012
Dr. John Rook
CEO of Potential Place Society, Calgary- Homeless shelter residents: Who are they and what are their needs in a time of rapid economic growth?
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Jan. 30, 2012
Dr. John Rook
CEO of Potential Place Society, Calgary- Am I My Sister’s and Brother’s Keeper? The Ethics of Homelessness and Programs that Work
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April 17, 2011
A panel of students from Professor Douglas Shantz's Religious Studies graduate seminar on Christianity in the Age of Pietism and Enlightenment will examine this topic from various perspectives
- How Christian Faith Adapted to the Age of Enlightenment Reason
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March 16, 2010
Dr. Ron A. Kuipers
Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto- Cross-Pressured Authenticity: Charles Taylor on Religious Identity in a Secular Age
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March 15, 2010
Dr. Ron A. Kuipers
Institute for Christian Studies, Toronto- What's So Critical About Faith? Exploring a Crucial Feature of Human Life
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March 16, 2009
Professor Douglas H. Shantz, PhD
Holder of the Chair of Christian Thought, University of Calgary- The Place of Religion in a Secular Age: Charles Taylor's Explanation of the Rise and Significance of Secularism in the West
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Jan. 29, 2008
Dr. Sallie McFague
Professor of Theology Emerita, Vanderbilt University Distinguised Theologian in Residence, Vancouver School of Theology- Urban Ecology and Religion
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Jan. 28, 2008
Dr. Sallie McFague
Professor of Theology Emerita, Vanderbilt University Distinguised Theologian in Residence, Vancouver School of Theology- Global Warming: A Theological Problem
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Oct. 31, 2006
Crawford Gribben
Professor of English and American Studies, University of Manchester- The USA in Rapture Fiction: Evangelicalism’s new Apocalyptic Other
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Oct. 30, 2006
Crawford Gribben
Professor of English and American Studies, University of Manchester- Left Behind Fiction and the Evangelical Crisis
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Jan. 25, 2006
Mary Jo Leddy
Director of Romero House
Toronto- God and Caesar at the 49th Parallel
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Jan. 24, 2006
Mary Jo Leddy
Director of Romero House
Toronto- Canada Chooses Between Two Kinds of Societies: A Punishing Society or a Forgiving Society
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Sept. 23-24, 2002
3 Day Symposium: "Religion and Public Life: the Canadian Experience"
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Sept. 24, 2002
Dr. David Marshall
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Calgary- The Preacher-Politician and Alberta Society
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Sept. 24, 2002
Dr. Marguerite Van Die
Associate Professor, Dept. of History & Theology, Queen's Theological College, Queen's University
Kingston, OntarioResponse:
Dr. David Marshall
Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Calgary- Faith and Public Life in Canada and the USA: How Different Are We?
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Sept. 23, 2002
Dr. Marguerite Van Die
Associate Professor, Dept. of History & Theology, Queen's Theological College, Queen's University
Kingston, Ontario- The End of Christian Canada: Past Perspectives, Present Opportunities
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March 6, 2001
Prof. Anne Moore
Instructor in Religious Studies, University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta- Jesus Christ, Movie Star: Depictions of Christ in Modern Film
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Nov. 8, 2000
Mary Jo Leddy
Director of the Romero House Community for Refugees and Adjunct Professor at Regis College, University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario- Towards a North American Liberation Theology: Liberating Power
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Nov. 7, 2000
Mary Jo Leddy
Director of the Romero House Community for Refugees and Adjunct Professor at Regis College, University of Toronto
Toronto, Ontario- Towards a North American Liberation Theology: Liberating Gratitude
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Dec. 4, 2021
Dr. Warren Kinghorn, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center; Esther Colliflower Associate Professor of the Practice of Pastoral and Moral Theology at Duke Divinity School; co-director of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School.
- Why Mental Disorders Are Not Brain Disorders (Alone): A Holistic Christian Approach to Mental Health Care
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Dec. 3, 2021
Dr. Warren Kinghorn, Associate Professor of Psychiatry at Duke University Medical Center; Esther Colliflower Associate Professor of the Practice of Pastoral and Moral Theology at Duke Divinity School; co-director of the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity School.
- What Do Emotions Mean? Aquinas, Descartes, and Modern Mental Health Care
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Jan. 30, 2021
Dr. Kate Kirkpatrick
Fellow in Philosophy and Christian Ethics, and Director of Studies in Philosophy
Regent's Park College, University of Oxford- The Death of God and the Lives of Women: An Afternoon with Dr. Kate Kirkpatrick
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Jan. 29, 2021
Dr. Kate Kirkpatrick
Fellow in Philosophy and Christian Ethics, and Director of Studies in Philosophy
Regent's Park College, University of Oxford- Existentialism and Exemplars
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Jan. 28, 2021
Dr. Kate Kirkpatrick
Fellow in Philosophy and Christian Ethics, and Director of Studies in Philosophy
Regent's Park College, University of Oxford- Writing Simone de Beauvoir
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Feb. 2, 2016
Eric Wasylenko, MD, MHSc
Palliative Care Physician and Practicing Clinical Ethicist- Medicine, Mercy & Humility: Ethics & Physician Assisted Death
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Feb. 1, 2016
Eric Wasylenko, MD, MHSc
Palliative Care Physician and Practicing Clinical Ethicist- Medicine, Mercy & Humility: Ethics & Physician Assisted Death
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March 9, 2015
Professor Douglas H. Shantz
Department of Classics and Religion
University of Calgary- The Moravian Tradition of Recording One’s Spiritual Journey: Practice, Significance, Examples
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Nov. 5, 2013
Dr. Molly Worthen
Assistant Professor, Department of History
University of North Carolina- Holy Minded: Evangelicals & the Problem of Anti-Intellectualism
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Nov. 4, 2013
Dr. Molly Worthen
Assistant Professor, Department of History
University of North Carolina- Culture War & the Continental Divide: Rival Evangelicalisms in North American Political Life
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Nov. 20, 2012
Former MP Bill Blaikie
Director, Knowles-Woodsworth Centre for Theology and Public Policy
University of Winnipeg- The Left-Hand of God: Why There will Always be a Religious Left in Canadian Politics
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Nov. 19, 2012
Former MP Bill Blaikie
Director, Knowles-Woodsworth Centre for Theology and Public Policy
University of Winnipeg- Faith & Politics: Reflections on the Roots of Canada’s Current Parliament
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March 13, 2012
Dr. Ramez Boutros
University of Toronto- Early women's Monasticism in Egypt
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March 12, 2012
Dr. Ramez Boutros
University of Toronto- The Flight of the Holy Family into Egypt: Literary & Archaeological Sources
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Feb. 7, 2011
Dr. Douglas H. Shantz
PhD, Professor of Christian Thought, University of Calgary- The Church & the Academy: What an Historian of Christianity Can Offer the Church of Today
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Feb. 7, 2011
Dr. Roy Darcus
- Response of Dr. Roy Darcus to Prof. Douglas Shantz’s Lecture, The Church and the Academy
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Nov. 3, 2009
Professor Doris Bergen
Chancellor Rose and Ray Wolfe Chair in Holocaust Studies, University of Toronto- Christian Churches in the Third Reich
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Nov. 3, 2009
Dr. Kyle T. Jantzen
Ambrose University College- The Sword of the Lord: Hitler's Chaplains
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Feb. 3, 2009
Dr. Otto Selles
Professor French, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI- Tolerance and "Fanaticism": The Huguenot Sect of the Multipliers (Montpellier, France, 1720-1723)
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Feb. 2, 2009
Dr. Otto Selles
Professor French, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI- Tolerance: Vice or Virtue?
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Sept. 21, 2007
Dr. Errol P. Mendes
Professor of Law, University of Ottawa
Response:
Professor Gregory A. Daneke
Chair of Business Ethics, University of Calgary- The Moral Argument against the Business Case for Corporate Social Responsibility: A Call for a New Moral and Spiritual Approach
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Sept. 20, 2007
Dr. Errol P. Mendes
Professor of Law, University of Ottawa- The Moral Argument for Corporate Social Responsibility: A Call for a New Moral and Spiritual Approach
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Sept. 20, 2007
John B. McWilliams, QC,
Former Senior Vice-President, General Counsel of Nexen Inc.- Making a Difference Without Succumbing to Temptation: One Corporate Experience
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Jan. 30, 2007
Dr. Ian Markham
Professor of Theology and Ethics, Hartford Seminary, Hartford CT- Neither Conservative nor Liberal: A Theology of Christian Engagement with Non-Christian Traditions
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Jan. 29, 2007
Dr. Ian Markham
Professor of Theology and Ethics, Hartford Seminary, Hartford CT- Open Orthodoxy and Same-Sex Marriage: Where Should Christians Stand?
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March 6, 2006
Dr. Douglas H. Shantz
PhD, Professor of Christian Thought, University of Calgary- What Are They Saying about Conversion? New Insights, Many Models
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Nov. 5, 2002
Dr. Margaret Miles Dillenberger
Professor of Historical Theology, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California- Religious Studies in a Religiously Plural Society
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Nov. 4, 2002
Dr. Margaret Miles Dillenberger
Professor of Historical Theology, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, California- The Flesh Made Word: Augustine and the Christian Body
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Sept. 25, 2001
Margaret Somerville
Founding Director of the McGill University Center for Medicine, Ethics and Law- Searching for Ethics in Science and Medicine: The Challenge in a Secular Society
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Feb. 6-7, 2001
Father Hugh Feiss OSB
Monastery of the Ascension, Idaho- Contemplation: What It is and Why We Need It
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Dec. 5, 2020
Dr. Bernard McGinn
Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor Emeritus of Historical Theology and of the History of Christianity
Divinity School, University of Chicago- What is Mysticism? An Afternoon with Dr. Bernard McGinn
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Dec. 4, 2020
Dr. Bernard McGinn
Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor Emeritus of Historical Theology and of the History of Christianity
Divinity School, University of Chicago- The Compassion of the Mystics
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Dec. 2, 2020
Dr. Bernard McGinn
Naomi Shenstone Donnelley Professor Emeritus of Historical Theology and of the History of Christianity
Divinity School, University of Chicago- Perspectives on Prayer from Meister Eckhart and Julian of Norwich
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March 7, 2016
Dr. Douglas H. Shantz
PhD, Professor of Christian Thought, University of Calgary- How Should We Study and Teach Religion? Some Reflections after 33 Years
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March 7, 2016
Tinu Ruparell
PhD, Head, Department of Classics and Religion
University of Calgary- How to Teach Religion: A Response to Prof. Douglas Shantz’ Swanson Lecture in Christian Spirituality
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Nov. 4, 2014
Rev. Raymond C. Aldred
Assistant Professor of Theology
Ambrose University, Calgary- A Communal Theology of Holistic Engagement with Creation
- A Communal Theology of Holistic Engagement with Creation
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Nov. 3, 2014
Rev. Raymond C. Aldred
Assistant Professor of Theology
Ambrose University, Calgary- Stories From the Edge: Aboriginal Insights in an Uncertain World
- Stories From the Edge: Aboriginal Insights in an Uncertain World
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March 11, 2014
Dr. Hartmut Lehmann
Professor of Modern History, University of Kiel- 2017 - Germany’s Quincentenary Celebration of the Reformation in an Age of Religious Pluralism and Secularization
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March 10, 2014
Dr. Hartmut Lehmann
University of KielDr. Douglas H. Shantz
University of Calgary- A Panel on Presenting German Pietism to a North American Audience
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March 5, 2013
Professor Heather Coleman
Canada Research Chair in Imperial Russian History
Department of History & Classics, University of Alberta- Studying Russian Religion since the Collapse of Communism
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March 4, 2013
Professor Heather Coleman
Canada Research Chair in Imperial Russian History
Department of History & Classics, University of Alberta- Religious Freedom in Russia Today
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Oct. 18, 2011
Peter C. Erb
Professor Emeritus of Religion, WLU- John Henry Newman’s The Idea of a University and its continuing Relevance
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Oct. 17, 2011
Peter C. Erb
Professor Emeritus of Religion, WLU- John Henry Newman’s Conversion and Path to Sainthood
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Nov. 8, 2010
Dr. Mark T. Mealey
PhD, University of Toronto- John Wesley's Challenge & Response to Modernity
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Oct. 6, 2009
Rev. John Vissers, PhD
Principal, The Presbyterian College, Montreal, and Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University- Calvin & Canadian Protestantism: The Thought & Influence of W.W. Bryden
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Oct. 5, 2009
Rev. John Vissers, PhD
Principal, The Presbyterian College, Montreal, and Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill University- Life with God: The Spiritual Theology of John Calvin
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Nov. 17, 2008
Rev. Cynthia Bourgeault, Ph.D.
Director of the Aspen Wisdom School- Encountering the Wisdom Jesus
- The Wisdom Jesus encounters the Jesus Seminar
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Oct. 29, 2007
Dr. Douglas H. Shantz
University of Calgary- What Evangelicals Should Know about Martin Luther: How Evangelicalism Departed from its Reformation Roots
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Oct. 29, 2007
Dr. Mark T. Mealey
Rocky Mountain College, Calgary, AB- Response to Douglas Shantz
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Oct. 29, 2007
Dr. Paul Knudtson
Rocky Mountain College, Calgary, AB- Response to Douglas Shantz
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Sept. 26, 2006
Professor Charles L. Quarles
Associate Professor of Religion, Louisiana College, Pineville, Louisiana- How Useful are the Lost Gospels for Historical Jesus Research?
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Sept. 25, 2006
Professor David Bershad
University of CalgaryProfessor Michael Duggan
St. Mary’s University CollegeProfessor Anne Moore
University of Calgary- The DaVinci Code: The Movie, the Book
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Nov. 15, 2005
Dr. Bonnie Thurston
Former Professor of New Testament, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary- Zeal for the Glory of the One God: Thomas Merton and Islam
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Nov. 14, 2005
Dr. Bonnie Thurston
Former Professor of New Testament, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary- I woke up': Thomas Merton and Buddhism
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Oct. 28, 2003
Dr. Susan Felch
Professor of English, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI- Noble Gentlewomen Famous for their Learning. The Public Roles of Women in Elizabethan England
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Oct. 27, 2003
Dr. Susan Felch
Professor of English, Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI- Naming the Animals: Genesis Two as a Prototype for the Project of Christian Scholarship
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Sept. 30, 2003
Dr. Dennis Martin
Associate Professor of Historical Theology, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois- Having Faith in History: Critical Empathy in Understanding Medieval Devotion to Christ
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Sept. 29, 2003
Dr. Dennis Martin
Associate Professor of Historical Theology, Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois- Doing What Comes Naturally: Pope John Paul II on Sacrificial Love in Politics, Economics and World Conflict
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March 3, 2003
Dr. Douglas H. Shantz
Associate Professor of Christian Thought, University of Calgary- A Church Ahead of its Time: The 18th Century Moravian Community on Gender, Worship and Ecumenism
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Nov. 26-27, 2001
Paul Knitter
Professor at Xavier University, Cincinnati, Ohio- Where are we with Inter-Faith Dialogue?
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Sept. 22, 2001
Dr. Michael W. Higgins
Professor of Religious Studies and English, St. Jerome’s University, Waterloo, Ontario- The Tower of Babel and the Silent-Speaking Poet
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March 17, 2001
Wayne McCready
Professor of Religious Studies, University of Calgary- The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Origins of Christianity
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Sept. 21-24, 2000
Michael Higgins
Professor and President at St. Jerome’s University, Waterloo, Ontario- Insights on the Spiritual Journey: A Public Symposium focussed on the Life and Writings of Thomas Merton
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Sept. 21-24, 2000
Lynn Szabo
Sessional Instructor, Trinity Western University, Langley, B.C.- The Seven Storeys of Thomas Merton’s Mountain: Spiritual Mappings for the Twenty-first Century
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Feb. 9, 2013
Dr. Pieternella Van Doorn-Harder
- Sixth Annual Coptic Studies Symposium: Coptic Heritage: Traditions & Transitions
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Oct. 1, 2005
Preston Manning
President and CEO of the newly formed Manning Centre for Building Democracy- Address by Preston Manning at The 20th Anniversary Dinner for the Chair of Christian Thought
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Sept. 20, 2005
Denis Renevey
Chair of Medieval English Literature, University of Lausanne- Mystical Feeling in Late Medieval England: An Assessment of the Textual Evidence
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Sept. 19, 2005
Denis Renevey
Chair of Medieval English Literature, University of Lausanne- Devotion to the Name of Jesus in Medieval England
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June 8, 2005
Rev. Dr. Setri Nyomi
General Secretary, The World Alliance of Reformed Churches (WARC)Respondents:
Dr. Mark Durieux, Dr. Anne Moore, Rev. Leslie Walker- Interreligious Dialogue in a Global Setting: An African Perspective on the Future of Christianity
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April 9, 2005
Charles Nienkirchen
Professor of Christian History and Spirituality, Nazarene University College, Calgary- Spiritual Direction in Ancient and Ecumenical Perspective: Discovering Possibilities for Contemporary Spiritual Growth
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March 8, 2005
Prof. Reginald Bibby
Department of Sociology, University of Lethbridge, Alberta- Restless Gods: The Problem with Posing a Renaissance
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March 7, 2005
Prof. Reginald Bibby
Department of Sociology, University of Lethbridge, Alberta- The Renaissance of Religion in Canada: Recuperative Powers of Canadian Religious Groups
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Feb. 1, 2005
Arlette Zinck
Associate Professor, Department of English, King’s University College, EdmontonJohn Sneep
Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, The King’s University College, Edmonton- Learning to Read Salvation: Psychological & Spiritual Change in Bunyan’s Grace Abounding and The Pilgrim’s Progress
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Jan. 31, 2005
Arlette Zinck
Associate Professor, Department of English, King’s University College, Edmonton- Of Holy Men & Holy Wars: John Bunyan reads Bush and Bin Laden
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Nov. 2, 2004
Craig A. Evans
Payzant Distinguished Professor New Testament- Messianic Hopes & Messianic Figures in Late Antiquity
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Nov. 1, 2004
Craig A. Evans
Payzant Distinguished Professor New Testament- What Are They Saying About the Historical Jesus
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Sept. 28, 2004
Wesley A. Kort
Professor of Religion, Duke University
Durham, North Carolina- Conrad's London and the Future of Sacred Space
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Sept. 27, 2004
Wesley A. Kort
Professor of Religion, Duke University
Durham, North Carolina- C.S. Lewis and the Anatomy of Pleasure
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May 17, 2004
Brian Keating
Head, Conservation Outreach, Calgary Zoological SocietyTinu Ruparell
Assistant Professor, Religious Studies, University of CalgaryElaine Park
Professor, English, St. Mary's College- Evening Discussion of The Life of Pi by Yann Martel
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March 9, 2004
Douglas John Hall
Emeritus Professor of Christian Theology, McGill University- Rediscovering Dietrich Bonhoeffer Bonhoeffer's Ethic of the Cross
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March 8, 2004
Douglas John Hall
Emeritus Professor of Christian Theology, McGill University- Between Fundamentalism and Liberalism: Karl Barth on the Bible
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Feb. 3, 2004
Rudy Wiebe
Award-winning Canadian novelist
Edmonton, AB- "The Archaeology of a Novel." The Blue Mountains of China as Site
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Feb. 2, 2004
Rudy Wiebe
Award-winning Canadian novelist
Edmonton, AB- Climbing Mountains that do Not Yet Exist. The Fiction Writer at Work
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Nov. 10, 1999
Dr. Douglas H. Shantz
Associate Professor of Christian Thought
University of Calgary- Longing for the Millennium: Christian End-time Expectations and Historical Explanation
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Sept. 21, 1999
Dr. James R. Payton
Professor of History
Redeemer College- Eastern Orthodoxy: Hellenized Christianity? Christianity and Culture in the Orthodox Paradigm
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Sept. 20, 1999
Dr. James R. Payton
Professor of History
Redeemer College- Dialogue with Eastern Orthodoxy: What Western Christians Can Learn from the Orthodox