and their rationally ordered lives and society,but then is banished by them because theyconclude that he is a yahoo with a brain, andthus could lead a rebellion and overturn theirsocial order. The distraught Gulliver compliesand eventually returns home to England, butonce there he literally becomes a “neigh sayer,”shunning what we would call civil society forthe company of horses in a barn, with whomhe passes as much time as he can in rationalconversation.

How are we to understand Gulliver’sexperience with the Houhynhymns, and hiscontinued allegiance, and eventual self-ostra-cization, despite their rejection of him? Anyanswer is of course complex. It does seemclear that Swift wants his reader to reckonwith the fact that neither the hyperrationalhorses nor the brutely instinctive yahoosrepresent fully realized humanity. It is alsoclear that Gulliver, who might represent acombination of them, emphatically allieshimself, and not incidentally his self-under-standing, with the former. Swift does giveGulliver one moment of equipoise—onetime when he is able to marry reason andemotion, head and heart. In it, Gulliverappeals the decision to banish him by suggesting that true justice requires mercy.Swift here renders Gulliver both incisive andeloquent. Yet the moment is both fleetingand ineffectual.

Swift’s tale is rarely invoked in discussionsof religion, but it should be. With regard to the Houhynhymns, Gulliver behaves likea member of what we would call a cult. Hedeploys the rituals from those horses when hereturns to England. Swift thus demonstratesfor us the dangers in uncritical adoption of atradition. Yet in highlighting Gulliver’s appeal,be it noted in a moment of extreme duress,that justice be tempered with mercy, Swiftalso illustrates for the reader what AbrahamLincoln would later term “the better angelsof our nature.”

The difficulty for all readers of Swift,particularly for divines who study religion, isthat Swift leaves us to draw the conclusions.

achieve Gulliver’s momentary insight andeloquence, and sustain it over time. The ready-to-hand answer is that religions in their theories and their practices are purposeful,even supervisory. Creed and code combineto encourage focus on what is true and goodand beautiful. The aim is thus to establishconditions in which the appeal of a Lincoln—and the recourse to justice tempered withmercy—is at least regularly recalled andhonored. The danger is to become like theHouhynhymns, whose justice knows nomercy and thus is not justice.

This danger—which we might term the danger of ideology, the danger of soemphasizing one aspect of the truth that itsremainder is forgotten and the whole thusperverted—is brilliantly addressed by Swiftin his depiction of the yahoos. Here criticismand irony become crucial counterpoints topurpose and supervision. Swift reveals throughGulliver the close connection between devo-tion and contempt, even the way in whichone feeds upon the other. To avoid Gulliver’sfate we need to avoid this particular, if all toohuman, equation. Swift helps us by under-scoring empirically the connections Gulliverdenies: the yahoo females uninhibitedlyexpress their sexual attraction to Gulliver,and Gulliver himself continually if unwit-tingly notes their shared physiognomy.

To fully grasp what Swift shows in Gulliverwe might here again take recourse, but thistime contrastively, to Lincoln: Gulliver’s resolute stigmatization of the yahoos is theopposite of Lincoln’s steadfast refusal todemonize the Confederacy during the CivilWar. Here Swift’s counsel about religionwould appear to suggest that creed and codemust always be modulated by scrupulousattention to any effort to demonize the“other.” In this sense, civil society and religion can and must be complementary.Given the rarity of Lincolns — and of Swifts— in our midst, it behooves us to recall theirexamples as we make the way forward. ❑

Richard A. Rosengarten, Dean

This is an index of his art: it compels us tothink harder than we might otherwise aboutboth whether, and if so how, religions can

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THE GREATEST SATIRE IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, JONATHAN SWIFT’S GULLIVER’S

Travels, famously concludes with a final voyage in which Lemuel Gulliver travels to “the land of the

Houhynhymns,” a community consisting of two classes: an oligarchy of horses who rule, and a rebellious

servant class of small, ape-like beings the horses have designated as “yahoos.” Swift twists the voyage

ironically at two moments. First, Gulliver becomes utterly loyal to and admiring of the Houhynhymns

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Creed and code combine to encourage focus on what istrue and good and beautiful. The aim is thus to establish

conditions in which the appeal of a Lincoln—and the recourseto justice tempered with mercy—is at least regularly recalled

and honored.

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Faculty News and Notes

Journal of Systematic Theology, Modern Theology, and Scottish Journal of Theology,and he is currently working on two books:Theology without Gaps: The Meaning, Truth, and Reference of God-talk and TheRecognition of the Spirit: A ConstructivePneumatology.

Otten Appointed Professor of the History of Christianityand Theology

Willemien Ottenis a scholar of thehistory of Chris-tianity and Chris-tian thought with a strong focus on the westernmedieval and theearly Christian

theological tradition, including the conti-nuity of (Neo) Platonic themes. After hermonograph on The Anthropology of JohannesScottus Eriugena (Leiden 1991), she researchedtwelfth-century thought. This resulted in herstudy From Paradise to Paradigm: A Study ofTwelfth-Century Humanism (Leiden 2004),which featured, among others, Peter Abelardand ‘Chartrian’ authors like Bernard Silvestrisand Alan of Lille.

Underlying her historical-theologicalwork is a structural attempt to see the con-tribution of (early) medieval theologians as more than the sum total of ancient andpatristic influences. Instead, she wants toanalyze the cultural outlook which allowedthese influences to become woven into thefabric of an encyclopaedic, humanist tradi-tion, by which the treatment of theologicalquestions is embedded in the broader studyof the liberal arts. Pursuing this line ofthought, she is currently researching connec-tions between Eriugena and Ralph WaldoEmerson in their thinking on nature andcreation.

Evans Appointed AssistantProfessor of the History of Christianity

Curtis Evans is an American religions histo-rian. His teaching interests include AfricanAmerican religion, the intersection of race andreligion in American history, and churchesand the problem of social and political reform.His current book, The Burden of Black Reli-gion: Representing, Vindicating, and Upliftingthe Race, forthcoming from Oxford Univer-sity Press, focuses on cultural images andacademic interpretations of black religion

and their relation to ongoing debates aboutthe place of blacks in the nation. His researchemphases are the relationship between cul-tural representations and social scientificunderstandings of African American religionand culture, and shifting conceptions of thenature of religious and intellectual capacityas signal traits of humanity and their impacton discussions of African American culturalcapacities. His current (tentative) researchproject includes an analysis of liberal Protes-tant theories of childhood religious nurturealongside advice manuals, sermonic mate-rial, and instructional media on childrearingby African American religious leaders fromthe late nineteenth to the mid-twentiethcentury.

Hector Appointed AssistantProfessor of Theology

Kevin Hector does constructive Christiantheology in conversation with contemporaryphilosophy. Hector’s scholarship is animatedby three problems: the modern problem ofrelating God, the world, and human persons;the problem of metaphysics (and the dualisticpictures which underwrite it); and the problemof establishing increasingly just social practices.Hector has published essays in International

Appointments

This fall, the Divinity School welcomes three new full-time

faculty members, two new associated faculty members, and

three visiting faculty members to its fold. To access online

faculty profiles, which include bibliographies, photographs, and con-

tact information for each faculty member, please see http://divinity

.uchicago.edu/faculty/index.html

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books include The Achievement of BernardLonergan (1970); Blessed Rage for Order: The New Pluralism in Theology (1975); TheAnalogical Imagination: Christian Theology

and the Culture of Pluralism(1981); Talking about God:Doing Theology in the Contextof Modern Pluralism, with JohnCobb (1983); A Short History ofthe Interpretation of the Bible,with Robert Grant (2d. ed.,1984); A Catholic Vision, withStephen Happel (1984); Plu-rality and Ambiguity (1987);Dialogue with the Other: TheInter-Religious Dialogue (1990);and On Naming the Present:

God, Hermeneutics, and Church (1994). Prof.Tracy is currently writing a book on God.

The tributes delivered at Prof. Tracy’sretirement reception will be published in the next issue (Fall 2007) of Criterion. A conference to honor Prof. Tracy will beheld Sunday, May 4, to Tuesday, May 6,2008, at Swift Hall. Please see page 10 andwatch our website for more details. ❑

Visiting Faculty

Edith Blumhofer is Visiting Professor ofthe History of Christianity at the DivinitySchool and Professor of History and Directorof the Institute for the Study of AmericanEvangelicals at Wheaton College. Her mostrecent book is Her Heart Can See: The Lifeand Hymns of Fanny J. Crosby. Among hercurrent projects are two books, Evangelicalism:A Very Short Introduction for Oxford Univer-sity Press and A Short History of Pentecostalismfor Cambridge University Press.

Frank Burch Brown, the Alexander Camp-bell Visiting Professor of Religion and theArts, will offer a three-course sequence, onecourse per year over the next three years, onreligion and aesthetics. The Frederick Doyle Kershner Professor of Religion and the Artsat Christian Theological Seminary (Indiana-polis), Brown works extensively in the fieldof religious and theological aesthetics, withadditional interests in literary theory and inthe discernment of emotion and meaning(communal and personal) in the musical andvisual arts. His wide-rang-ing books are Transfigura-tion: Poetic Metaphor andReligious Belief; The Evolu-tion of Darwin’s ReligiousViews; Religious Aesthetics;and the award-winningGood Taste, Bad Taste, andChristian Taste: Aesthetics in Religious Life. Acomposer with twenty commissioned worksto his credit, he recently fulfilled a commissionfrom the Indianapolis Symphonic Choir.

Peter Casarella will be Visiting Professor ofTheology. His areas of specialization include

theological anthropology, eschatology, medievaltheology (including St. Bonaventure andNicholas of Cusa), the thought of Hans Ursvon Balthasar, and Hispanic/Latino theology.He has edited or coedited: Christian Spiritu-ality and the Culture of Modernity: The Thoughtof Louis Dupré (Eerdmans, 1998), Cuerpo de Cristo: The Hispanic Presence in the U.S.Catholic Church (Crossroad, 1998), andCusanus: The Legacy of Learned Ignorance(Catholic University Press, 2007) and pub-lished research articles in various journals.His current research projects include a bookwith the working title “Von Balthasar: TheCentrifugal Politics of Culture.” After servingfor fourteen years in the School of Theologyand Religious Studies at The Catholic Univer-sity of America, he is currently full Professorof Catholic Studies at DePaul University.

New Faculty Titles

This past Spring, two Divinity School facultymembers received new titles. Arnold I.Davidson is now the Robert O. AndersonDistinguished Service Professor in the Depart-ment of Philosophy, the Divinity School, andthe Department of Comparative Literature.William Schweiker is now the Edward L.Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor ofTheological Ethics in the Divinity Schooland the College. Professor Schweiker is alsothe new Director of the Martin Marty Center;please see page 9 for more information. Pro-fessor Schweiker will give a lecture to inau-gurate his new title in the Winter Quarter;please watch our website for more details.

In addition, Profs. Franklin I. Gamwell andW. Clark Gilpin are now, respectively, theShailer Mathews Distinguished Service Pro-

fessor of Religious Ethics, the Philosophy ofReligion, and Theology and the Margaret E.Burton Distinguished Service Professor of theHistory of Christianity and Theology.

New Associate Faculty

Philip V. Bohlman is the Mary WerkmanDistinguished Service Professor of the Human-ities and of Music, and of Jewish Studies. Anethnomusicologist, music and religion formhis central subjects, ranging from Jewishmusic in the modern era to theinterpretation of music in wor-ship in North American reli-gious communities to currentethnographic study of musicin the Muslim communities ofEurope. His writings addressissues in the intersections of music with race,nationalism, and colonial encounter; theontological and ethical dimensions of music;and social agency of aesthetics and perfor-mance. He is also Artistic Director of theJewish cabaret ensemble, the New BudapestOrpheum Society, an ensemble-in-residenceat the University of Chicago.

Christopher Faraone is the Frank CurtisSpringer and Gertrude Melcher SpringerProfessor in the Humanities at the Universityof Chicago. A member and former chair ofthe Department of Classics, he teaches andwrites primarily about Greek religion andpoetry, and regularly teaches in the core cur-riculum, where he serves as the director ofthe Greek Thought and Literature sequence.In recent years he has taught in the College’sOverseas Programs in Athens, Rome and Paris.He also teaches in the Departments of NewTestament and Early Christian Literature.

David Tracy Retires

Internationally renowned theologian and philosopher of religion David Tracy, AndrewThomas Greeley and Grace McNichols Greeley Distinguished Service Professor ofCatholic Studies and Professor of Theology and the Philosophy of Religion in the

Divinity School, retired from teaching at the end of Fall Quarter, 2006.

at John Carroll University from1976 to 1977, delivering theTuohy Lectures on “the Prob-lem of God.” The recipient ofseveral honorary doctoratedegrees, Prof. Tracy was electedto the American Academy ofArts and Sciences in 1982. Hehas lectured in approximatelyforty universities around theworld. In 1997 he won the Faculty Teaching Award at the University of Chicago, and in 2000 he delivered theprestigious Gifford Lectures under the title“This Side of God.”

Prof. Tracy taught a wide variety of coursesin contemporary theology and philosophy,including philosophical, systematic, andconstructive theology and hermeneutics,and courses dealing with issues and personsin religion and modern thought. His many

A reception in his honor was held on March1, 2007, and included talks by his DivinitySchool colleagues Wendy Doniger, BernardMcGinn, and Franklin I. Gamwell.

David Tracy was born in 1939 in Yonkers,New York. A noted Roman Catholic teacher,scholar, priest, and theologian, he receivedhis licentiate (1964) and doctorate (1969) atGregorian University in Rome. From 1967

to 1969, Prof. Tracy taught at Catholic Uni-versity of America, his first teaching assign-ment. He then moved to the University ofChicago, where he became the first Catholicpriest to be appointed to the Divinity School.In 1985 he was named Distinguished ServiceProfessor, and in 1987 he was named Distin-guished Service Professor of Roman CatholicStudies. He has served on the university’sCommittee on the Analysis of Ideas andMethods and on the Committee on SocialThought. He was a fellow, with John Cobb,

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Faculty News and Notes

New Sightings Editor Named

Kristen Tobey is the new Managing Editorfor Sightings, the Marty Center’s biweeklyonline editorial.

Ms. Tobey comes to Sightings after twoyears in the Manuscript Editing departmentat the University of Chicago Press. Shereceived a B.A. from DePaul University anda Master’s Degree from the Divinity School,where she is currently a Ph.D. student inAnthropology and Sociology of Religion.Her research focuses most specifically on the Plowshares, a contemporary Catholicmovement; and, morebroadly, on self-marginalizing religiousgroups in both histori-cal and contemporaryAmerica, and howthey create and main-tain outsider identitiesin the midst of shiftingsocial circumstances.

Kristen is eager toinvite international perspectives to Sightings,where she looks forward to taking part in theongoing exploration of religion’s presence inthe public sphere.

Read more about Sightings online athttp://marty-center.uchicago.edu/sightings/index.shtml.

Potential contributors should contactKristen at ktobey@uchicago.edu.

Other News

The 24th Annual Lecture at DePaul Univer-sity’s Center for Church-State Studies wasdelivered by Franklin I. Gamwell, the ShailerMathews Distinguished Service Professor ofReligious Ethics, the Philosophy of Religion,and Theology. His lecture, entitled “TheQuestion of Democracy,” was delivered onThursday, April 26, 2007, at 3:30 p.m. in theUnion League Club (downtown Chicago).

For more than twenty-four years, thenondenominational Center for Church-

State Studies at DePaul University hasforged a vital link between secular and religious communities in society. Theannual lecture, sponsored since 1983, servesthe Center’s mission to foster continuingdialogue among members of the legal, policy-making, and religious constituenciesof our society.

Martin E. Marty, the Fairfax M. ConeDistinguished Service Professor Emeritus,presented the lecture in 1995.

An evangelical woman who lived in Newport, Rhode Island, in the eighteenthcentury, Osborn kept an extraordinary

devotional diary, writing for more thanthirty years and producing a total of 15,000

manuscript pages. More than 1,500 of thesepages still survive.

Brekus teaches courses on every period ofAmerican religious history from the found-ing of the colonies to the present, but shealso has a particular interest in early Americaand the role of women in religious history.She is the author of the award-winningStrangers and Pilgrims: Female Preaching inAmerica, 1740–1845, which explores the riseof Protestant female preaching during theeighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

In her forthcoming book, Brekus examinesthe relationship between the evangelicalmovement and the Enlightenment by focus-ing on the story of Osborn, a schoolteacherwho gained a large following in Newport as a spiritual leader.

Of her goal for the book, which is on

contract with Knopf, she writes, “I hope towrite an accessible narrative that will give bothhistorians and educated readers a more sophis-ticated understanding of early evangelicalism,the history of women’s religious leadershipand the legacy of the Enlightenment.”

Brekus, who has already written severalchapters of Sarah Osborn’s World, plans touse her Guggenheim fellowship to completesome of her research on the book in Newport, Rhode Island, and to finish the manuscript.

Brekus wins Guggenheim Fellowship

Gamwell Delivers Center for Church-State Studies Annual Lecture

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has named Catherine Brekus,Associate Professor of the History of Christianity in the Divinity School, a 2007

Guggenheim fellow. Professor Brekus, who was selected from among 2,800 U.S.

and Canadian applicants, will use her Guggenheim fellowship to complete her book, SarahOsborn’s World: Popular Christianity in Early America, which explores the rise of evangeli-calism during the eighteenth century through the personal life story of Sarah Osborn.

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New Director of Field Education and Church Relations

Kevin Boyd joined the staff of the DivinitySchool as Director of Field Education andChurch Relations as of August 1, 2007. Mr.Boyd is an alumnus of Stetson University andof the Divinity School’s M.Div. program(2005). For the past several years he hasserved as Resident Chaplain at Rush Univer-sity Medical Center, where he was specificallyinterested in neurological disorders and howthe loss of memory function impacts thedeveloped sense of self. There he also con-tinued his interest in medical ethics (organtransplantationand the questionof identity) andthe interplaybetween religiousbeliefs and medi-cal technology bycompleting Rush’sGraduate Certifi-cation in HealthCare Ethics. He isendorsed through the Episcopal Church forhospital chaplaincy and is eligible for BoardCertification through the Association ofProfessional Chaplains.

Cynthia Lindner, Director of the M. Div.program, remarked that “Mr. Boyd brings a rich mixture of gifts to his work in ourministry program: he is grounded in Chicago’sintellectual heritage, he has been mentoredand supervised by excellent pastors andchaplains, and he has refined his own pastoralpractice in a context that demands diligentand authentic theological reflection on thepractice of ministry. I anticipate that withKevin’s energetic leadership, we will be ablenot only to solidify and strengthen the exist-ing field education curriculum, but to developa more thoroughgoing and coherent approachto students’ practical experience throughoutour program.”

At the Divinity School Mr. Boyd will beresponsible for supervising the placement ofsecond-year M.Div. students in churches, foroversight of the field work program, and forthe development of our working relationshipswith denominational adjudicatories andnational bodies.

Divinity School Receives Lilly “BorderCrossing” Grant

Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded the Divinity School at the University ofChicago $500,000 for the next three yearsto support a program that will bringtogether faculty, ministers, and the DivinitySchool’s Master of Divinity (M.Div.) andPh.D. students who are preparing to teachin theological education to address theunexamined, but widely-held assumptionthat preparation for ministry and prepara-tion for theological education reflect quitedifferent aims and purposes. The monieswill support a coordinated program of conferences, symposia, seminars, teachingopportunities, and a range of engagementswith churches and their leadership.

W. Clark Gilpin, the Margaret E. BurtonDistinguished Service Professor of the History

of Christianity andTheology in theDivinity School,stressed the impor-tance of the Endow-ment award: “Thefocused intensityof graduate studypresents few ‘readymade’ opportunitiesto step back and

ask ‘why is this profession important to me, and how do I understand its governingpurposes?’”

The programs supported by this grant,observed Cynthia Gano Lindner, Director of Ministry Studies and Clinical Faculty forPreaching and Pastoral Care in the DivinitySchool, “will make intentional and visiblewhat many of us already enjoy, and value mosthighly about the community of discourse atthe Divinity School. At Chicago, M.Div.and Ph.D. students alike benefit from aneducational context in which it is possible to have extended conversations about ourcommitments and our work with professorsand with pastors, with persons who aspire to careers in the academy and persons whoare preparing for leadership in religiouscommunities.”

The Endowment is an Indianapolis-based,private philanthropic foundation created in1937 to support the causes of religion, edu-cation and community development. TheEndowment has long had an interest in therole and purpose of religion in American lifeand strives to create opportunities across the country to learn more about the subjectthrough research, to encourage the develop-ment of a new generation of ministers, tonurture practicing ministers, and to buildhealthy and vibrant congregations.

JUF Grant

The University of Chicago Divinity Schoolis pleased to announce a grant of $200,000

from the Jewish Federation of MetropolitanChicago to support a series of four visitingprofessors, one per academic year, to enhanceits curriculum in the study of Judaism.

Richard A. Rosengarten, Dean of theDivinity School, said, “the School is immenselygrateful to Michael Kotzin and the JewishFederation for their initiative in suggestingthis possibility, which will certainly enhance

our curriculum in the study of Judaism andwhich also complements the Marty Center’scentral commitment to cultivating the broad-est possible informed public understandingof religion. Especially pertinent and welcomeis the prospect of a set of visiting fellowswhose combined expertise presents the richestpossible portrait ‘in depth’ of contemporaryJewish thought and practice.”

The Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federationof Metropolitan Chicago is the largest not-for-profit social welfare institution in Illinois,providing resources to 300,000 Chicagoansof all faiths and a network of nearly 70 agenciesand programs that care for people at everystage of life, regardless of the ability to pay.

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teaching partnerships and reflection groups,all exploring the relationship between theprofessions of teaching and ministry. At theDivinity School, Ph.D. and M.Div. studentsstudy side-by-side, sharing a common facultyand common coursework, and so we areuniquely situated to look more closely at whatmight be gained by a richer and more inten-tional conversation about our companionprofessions. The project will bring togetherpracticing ministers, Divinty School andseminary faculty, M.Div. and Ph.D. studentsin a variety of venues designed to enhancethe well-informed and deeply-engaged practice of teachers and pastors alike. Theconferences and consultations will all be openand accessible to the public: the first of these,“Advocacy in the Pulpit and in the Classroom”will be held at Swift Hall on Wednesday,September 19th from 9:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.and will include a keynote address byFranklin I. Gamwell, the Shailer MathewsDistinguished Service Professor of ReligiousEthics, the Philosophy of Religion, and Theology in the Divinity School, responses

Two new program initiatives at the DivinitySchool will encourage students and staff torenew their efforts to engage their various“publics” in dialogue, reflection, and actionover the next three years, as we seek howbest to train public theologians for teachingand ministry in the twenty-first century.

“Border Crossing: Collaborative TheologicalReflection for Ministry,” funded by a generousgift from the Lilly Endowment, will offer athree-year cycle of conferences, consultations,

Ministry Program Update

Renewing our investment in “public ministry”

Chicago’s ministry program has long been known for its insis-

tence on public ministry, the recognition that religious life

and thought shapes and is shaped by its broader context—

its “public”—in ways that are sometimes empowering and beneficial

to all, and at other times devastating and destructive all around. Our

signature claim has new currency in our current global context, as

international conflicts are often articulated in religious language, and

as religious leaders find themselves and their congregations deeply

invested in such public concerns as immigration, poverty, public

health and environmental advocacy.

. . . we are uniquelysituated to look more closely

at what might be gained by a richer and more

intentional conversation about our companion

professions.

by a panel of professors and pastors, and acase study reflection/discussion. The second,“Music in American Religious Experience,”will be held on January 25, 2008 and featureProfs. Phillip Bohlman and Edith Blumhofer.For more information, bookmark our website.

A second grant program will help ministrystudents engage in conversation and reflectionon public ministry well beyond the confinesof Swift Hall, the city of Chicago, and ourU.S. borders. Four “International MinistryStudies grants” will be issued to currentM.Div. students each year for the next four

years, thanks to matching monies from theCarpenter Foundation and the Baptist Theological Union. Acknowledging thatmost of the world’s Christians now live in Asia, Africa, and Latin America, and recognizing our students’ commitment tothe global church, these grants will make it possible for selected students to travelabroad for a summer of learning and work-ing alongside religious leaders and faithcommunities in other cultures. When students return to the Divinity School, they will be responsible for offering a pre-sentation or seminar that will share theirinsights with the Swift Hall community.While students will be responsible for identifying and making arrangements withtheir international ministry partners, wewould be happy to hear from alumni or others with international sites and or per-sonnel for our consideration. Once again,the Divinity School website includes moredetailed information about these grants, the application process, and future partnerships. ❑ — Cynthia Lindner, Director, Ministry Program

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Divinity Students Association

The Divinity Students Association(DSA) is an organization run by andfor University of Chicago DivinitySchool students. The organizationattempts to contribute to many spheresof life in the Divinity School: academic,professional, and social. This articlecontinues our series about DivinitySchool student life.

To learn more about the DSA and itsmany activities, please visit http://divinity.uchicago.edu/student/dsa/index.shtml

The Ethics Club gives students of ethics andothers who are interested a chance to sharetheir ideas and their work, review the workof and ask questions of professors in morerelaxed and intimate settings than that of a formal class, and meet other students inter-ested in similar topics both for discussionand for socializing. In 2006–07, the EthicsClub hosted six noontime meetings. Discus-sions with faculty included Professor RichardShweder of the Department of ComparativeHuman Development and Professors FranklinI. Gamwell, Martha Nussbaum, Jean BethkeElshtain, and William Schweiker, all of theDivinity School. Topics of these discussionsranged from process theology to female circumcision to just-war theory and the war

discussion. Presenting at an Ethics Clubevent allows students to discuss their workin settings that can be more formal (a conference) or more informal and relaxed(noontime meetings). We also hope to continue to have a group of committed students who will help to plan and arrangeevents. Being part of a club allows studentsto meet others (students and faculty), gainexperience both with planning academicevents and with presenting work, andmaybe have a little fun along the way.

Questions about the Ethics Club or our events can be directed to the2007– 08 club president Debra Erickson(dje@uchicago.edu). — Laura Koepke

in Iraq. We also hosted a noontime meetingwith advanced Ph.D. students of ethics todiscuss the steps involved in working towarda Ph.D. and to hear some advice on making itthrough a long and sometimes tiring butrewarding process.

The club also enjoys convening for socialevents! One of our most successful eventshas been a quarterly Pub Night, which drawsstudents from diverse areas within the DivinitySchool to gather and talk about topics inethics—or religion—or sports—or currentevents—or just to tell jokes and catch upwith our friends. Pub Nights are open to allDivinity School students and faculty.

Future plans for the club include possibleconferences on medical ethics during the2007– 08 school year and on business ethicsin 2008 – 09; a workshop with students fromthe University of Notre Dame in Autumn2007; a dinner with faculty and students;and continued noontime discussions andevenings at the Pub. One way in which we would like to grow as an organization isto make more connections between students in the Masters and the early stages of thePh.D. program and more advanced Ph.D.students, so we encourage all our Ph.D.students to submit papers either for ourupcoming conferences or for a noontime

Divinity School Ethics Club

On a hot day in late May, the Divinity School Ethics Club met

for lunch in Swift Hall for a presentation on “The Future

of Religious Ethics” with Professor William Schweiker, the

club’s advisor. Professor Schweiker discussed trends in the field of

ethics and his thoughts on how the study of religious ethics can

remain relevant, rigorous and challenging in the academy. Students

asked questions and offered their own thoughts on this topic, which

was of great interest to those intending to study and teach religious

ethics within university, seminary and other academic settings.

One of our most successful events has been

a quarterly Pub Night, whichdraws students from diverse

areas within the Divinity School to gather and talk about

topics in ethics—or religion—or sports—

or current events—or just to tell jokes and catch up

with our friends.

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Autumn and Winter Events

Alumnus of the Year 2007Lecture and Reception

Thursday, November 14:00 p.m., Swift Lecture Hall

A public lecture by John C. Holt, Ph.D.1977 (History of Religions), the DivinitySchool’s Alumnus of the Year for 2007. A reception will follow. Read more aboutProfessor Holt and his work here: http://divinity.uchicago.edu/alumni/awards/holt.shtml

Please note: There is no Nuveen Lecture this year.The 2008 Alumnus of the Year Lecture and Receptionwill be held in April of 2008.

For calendar updates, please consult the Divinity School’s website at http://divinity.uchicago.edu. Access the most up-to-date events information, sign upfor our events listserve (“At the Divinity School”), and get current (and archived)news. Please see p.10 for detailed information on upcoming conferences.

Wednesday Community Luncheons

Every Wednesday when school is in session12:00 noon–1:30 p.m., Swift Common Room

Lunches this year will include acclaimedmodern architects Tod Williams and BillieTsien—designers of the University’s newReva and David Logan Center for Creativeand Performing Arts—pictured below; Dr.Rick Kittles of the Department of Medicineon genetics, race, and ancestry; Dean’s Forawith Professors Jean-Luc Marion and JamesRobinson; Professor Stephen Pruett-Jonesfrom Ecology & Evolution on Hyde Park’smonk parakeets; and many more.

AAR/SBL Reception

Sunday, November 189:00 p.m., San Diego, California

All Divinity School alumni and friends areinvited to a reception at the annual meetingof the American Academy of Religion (AAR)and Society for Biblical Literature (SBL) tobe held this year in San Diego, California.For more information, please contact MaryJean Kraybill at 773-702-8248 or mjkraybill@uchicago.edu. See you there!

Border Crossing Series

A cycle of three conferences each academic year will provide opportunitiesfor ministers, faculty, M.Div. and Ph.D.students to explore the interrelated-ness of their intellectual interests andprofessional pursuits.

See http://divinity.uchicago.edu/events/lilly/ for more info.

Advocacy in the Pulpit and the ClassroomSeptember 19, 2007

Franklin I. Gamwell, keynote address

Music in American Religious ExperienceJanuary 25, 2008

Phillip Bohlman and Edith Blumhofer, speakers

Fourth Annual Student-OrganizedMinistry ConferenceApril 18, 2008

E V E N T S AU T U M N A N D W I N T E R Q UA RT E R S I N C LU D E

Bond Chapel Worship

Every Wednesday when school is in session11:30 a.m.–12:00 noonJoseph Bond Chapel, 1050 East 59th Street

Bond Chapel worship is a brief midweekservice of music, prayer, readings, and preach-ing in an ecumenical spirit, offered by andfor the students, staff, and faculty of theDivinity School and the wider Universitycommunity. The weekly gathering providesregular space and place for reflection, wonder, and praise. All are welcome!

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Please see http://divinity.uchicago.edu/news/wednesdays.shtml for upcoming datesand speaker information.

Lunch itself (a vegetarian meal; a veganoption is available by prior request) is preparedand served by our creative and energetic student staff. Those interested in attendingshould reserve a lunch in advance by email-ing divinitylunch@gmail.com or by calling773-702-8230.

Please see Marty Center Conferences, p. 10,for information on upcoming conferences.

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The Martin 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 world outside the academy. In all of

its projects, the Center aims to serve as a robust circulatory system

that strengthens, deepens, and extends scholarly inquiry by moving

it through the deliberating bodies of the students, faculty, and

public. — William Schweiker, Director of the Marty Center

MartyCenterNews andEvents

Professor Schweiker’s scholarship and teach-ing engage theological and ethical questionsattentive to global dynamics, comparativereligious ethics, the history of ethics, andhermeneutical philosophy.

His recent books include Power, Valueand Conviction: Theological Ethics in thePostmodern Age (1998) and Theological Ethicsand Global Dynamics: In the Time of ManyWorlds (2004). He has published numerousarticles and award-winning essays, as well asedited and contributed tosix volumes, including,most recently, HumanityBefore God: ContemporaryFaces of Jewish, Christianand Islamic Ethics (2006).Professor Schweiker wasalso chief editor and con-tributor to A Companionto Religious Ethics (2004),a comprehensive andinnovative work in thefield of comparative reli-gious ethics. He is cur-rently an editor of TheJournal of Religion and is writing a book on “theological humanism.” ProfessorSchweiker is an ordained minister in theUnited Methodist Church.

The work of the MMC in terms of supporting faculty work and sponsoringconferences and publications will continueunder Professor Schweiker. His ownresearch concerns will find some expressionin the Center’s work as well. “I want to give special attention to the historical andcontemporary interactions—contentious,peaceful, concealed, and intentional—among religions,” said Schweiker. “I amengaged in exploring and also advancing

forms of religious humanismnow arising within various con-texts which aim to address thevarious global challenges peopleface. I intend to engage inresearch projects on these globaldynamics and interactions withan eye to the role—if any—the religions can play in forginga humane future.”

Professor Schweiker succeeds Wendy Doniger, theMircea Eliade DistinguishedService Professor of the Historyof Religions, as director of the

Center. Dean Rosengarten offered the following words of gratitude toProfessor Doniger for her three yearsof service at the Center’s helm: “I am tremendously grateful to WendyDoniger for three inspired years ofleadership of the Marty Center. AsDirector she shaped a distinctiveintellectual profile for the Center’swork, one that focused the questionof public religion as a comparativeproject and that also brought intoplay classic questions about the her-itage of the study of religion in rela-tion to the “Chicago School” of the historyof religions à la Joachim Wach and MirceaEliade. She was also a devoted architect of

the dissertation seminar that is a crucialpiece of the Center’s annual work.”

The vision of establishing a venue for theadvanced study of religions at the Universityof Chicago came from Joseph M. Kitagawa,dean of the Divinity School from 1970 to1980. Martin E. Marty, a historian of mod-ern Christianity, worked closely with DeanKitagawa to formulate the purposes andoperation of the center within the context of the Divinity School’s general mission of teaching and graduate research. The Institute for the Advanced Study of Religionofficially opened in October 1979, with Professor Marty as its director. Subsequentdirectors have been Bernard McGinn (1983–

1992), a historian ofmedieval Christianity;Frank Reynolds (1992–2000), a historian of religions who special-izes in Buddhist studies; and W. Clark Gilpin(2001–2004). In 1998,the Institute for theAdvanced Study of Religion was renamedthe Martin Marty Center, to honor itsfounding director

for his singular distinction as historian,author, and commentator on religion and public life. ❑

William Schweiker Appointed Director of Marty Center

This May, Richard A. Rosengarten, Dean of the Divinity

School, announced the appointment of William Schweiker,

Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theo-

logical Ethics, to the directorship of the Martin Marty Center, the

Divinity School’s institute for the advanced study of religion.

“I want to give special attention to the

historical and contemporaryinteractions — contentious,

peaceful, concealed, and intentional — among

religions.”

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Marty Center Conferences

In May of 2008 the University ofChicago will hold a conference celebrat-ing the theological scholarship of David

Tracy and discussing central issues in hiscurrent research. In consultation with Prof.Tracy, the Divinity School has organized theconference to explore the significance ofAugustine of Hippo for interpreting ourcontemporary theological, philosophical,and cultural circumstances. Prof. Tracy isscheduled to present one of the papers himself, at 5:00 p.m. on Sunday, May 4.

The conference structure will be chrono-logical, with sessions proceeding from late

antiquity through the medieval and earlymodern periods to the present. But, through-out, it aims to establish a series of conversa-tions between the Augustinian tradition,broadly conceived, and contemporaryscholarship in theology, philosophy, and

cultural history.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

The conference schedule and more detailswill be made available in November. Please bookmark the conference’s web site:http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/conferences/tracy/.

This conference will address connec-tions among religion, mourning, andpsychoanalysis, taking each term as

both framework and object of analysis. Thefocus of the conference involves the paradoxof mourning: the mourning (and melancholy)that follow death and other forms of loss and

change entails a psychic labor with a creativedimension. New forms of memory, identity,morality and solidarity can be produced onthe individual level; and new cultural prod-ucts, such as the theoretical inventiveness ofpsychoanalysis and religious studies them-selves, may emerge on the cultural level.

Religion will be considered as a mediatorof mourning in papers that speak to its rolein the transformation of meaning wroughtby the mourning of death and loss. Religionwill also be considered as a lost object itself,as a set of symbolic structures whose efficacyhas been lost to those who take their bear-ings from a secular worldview. Following thework of Peter Homans, Professor Emeritusof Psychology and of Religious Studies inthe Divinity School, who has traced the origins of psychoanalysis to Freud’s loss of traditional religious involvement, thesepapers undercut the usual dichotomies ofsecular/religious and mourning/melancholy,demonstrating an internal and ongoing relationship to a reworked conception ofreligion embedded within such presumedlysecular disciplines as psychoanalysis and the academic study of religion.

Please join us as we consider the roles of religion, mourning, and psychoanalysis in our plural and interconnected worlds ofbelief and doubt, faith and disillusionment,engagement and critique.

Sponsored by the Divinity School of theUniversity of Chicago with the Center forReligion and Psychotherapy of Chicago.

Please visit http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/conferences/mourning/index.shtml/for more details.

The Divinity School is pleased toannounce a celebration of the 80thbirthday of Martin Marty, Fairfax

M. Cone Distinguished Service ProfessorEmeritus of the History of Modern Chris-tianity in the Divinity School—and the10th anniversary of the Marty Center, to beheld on February 5 and 6, 2008.

The celebration will consist of a two-dayconference and an evening celebration.

Please visit http://marty-center.uchicago.edu/conferences/city/ for more details.

CONFERENCE

Tuesday afternoon, February 5, and Wednesday morning, February 6, 2008

Gleacher Center

The conference will consist of keynote talks(Ray Suarez, confirmed; other keynotespeakers TBA), and sessions on variousaspects of the theme ‘religion and the city.’

CELEBRATION

Tuesday, February 5, 2008, 6–8 p.m.River East Art Center

Upcoming 2008 Conferences

Religion and the City: Our Urban Humanity and the World Beyond

February 5–6, 2008, Gleacher Center and River East Art Center, Chicago

Mourning and Religion: Psychoanalytic Reflections on the Role of Religion in Individual and Cultural Loss

October 26–27, 2007, Swift Hall

Augustine: Theological and Philosophical Conversations — A Conference Honoring David Tracy

May 4 –6, 2008, Swift Hall

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An Interview with William Schweiker

CIRCA: What does it mean to you to havebeen appointed the new director of theMarty Center, and what are your plans forthe Center?

WS: It is a genuine honor for me to beappointed the Director of the Marty Center.I am excited about continuing the work of many years and so many scholars. Myconnection to the Center is longstanding.When a student, I was selected as a JuniorFellow in the Institute for the AdvancedStudy of Religion, as it was then called,directed by Bernard McGinn. Since joiningthe faculty, I have helped to run the Seminarwith previous directors Frank Reynolds,Clark Gilpin, and Wendy Doniger. Further,I have been fortunate enough to help orga-nize several conferences co-sponsored by the Marty Center. I have also done somewriting for Sightings and also the Web Forum.So, in various ways, I have come to under-stand and deeply appreciate the intellectualvitality of the Center.

The Marty Center must remain at theforefront of scholarship on religion and tocontinue to build on its renown. Meetingthose aspirations is my first responsibility, as I see it. I intend to do so by supportingfaculty research, fostering new projects, andcontinuing the work of the Fellows Seminarand our various publications. I also hope to make contact with other research centersaround the university, the nation, and alsoglobally. Happily, we have two importantconferences already in the works for thiscoming year, one around Martin Marty’sbirthday and also the conference in honor of David Tracy. We will work to make thesemajor events for the Center and the DivinitySchool. Other events are also afoot.

The Center has been always been concerned with the public meaning of the religions. In fact, attention to the social reality of religion is a longstanding focus of work at the Divinity School, one thatreaches back to our earliest years. Further-more, everyone working in religious studiesnowadays is mindful of the importance, andalso sometimes the peril, of good critical,historical, and constructive work on the religions. If one looks globally, there aremanifold challenges—authoritarian andotherwise—to the rigorous analysis andinterpretation of the religions. Freedom ofinquiry is more important today than atanytime in the recent past, and that is true, I believe, even for the religions themselves.The Marty Center has been a bulwark forthe spirit of inquiry and it must continuethat tradition of research.

Given the shared ethos among everyoneinvolved with the place, it is also the casethat each of the directors has left her or hisdistinctive mark on the work of the Center.

In my own case, three interlocking concernsshape my current work which I intend toexplore in collaboration with faculty hereand other scholars, both in meetings andconferences.

One interest of mine is the current up-surge of new forms of “humanism.” We areliving in an age of manifold types of endanger-ment to life through the extension of humanpower in its various forms, ranging fromgenetics to the environment. This opensquestions about the relation of religion andscience, but also historical, comparative, andconstructive work on what the religions meanby “life” and its forms, its moral status, andalso the scope of human responsibility. I thinkthis could be a rich topic to explore fromvarious perspectives. My hope, then, is tofoster interest in research around these threebroad areas of concern.

CIRCA: This year you will be inauguratingsome new events and projects at the MartyCenter. Could you tell us a little about thegenesis of these new items, and where youhope to see them at the end of your three-year term?

WS: I have already noted that I want to helpto foster and sponsor work on three areas of interest, realizing that the precise shape of

those projects will be defined by the partici-pants. Beyond those initiatives there are twomajor things I am planning to begin at theCenter. For many years the Center has hostedsenior scholars from a variety of fields. Thesescholars participate in the Fellows Seminarand at times have taught courses and seminars.This coming year we will begin the SeniorFellows’ Symposium. A Senior Fellow, begin-ning this coming Spring with Professor MaryGerhardt, will give a public presentationand discussion of work. This will allow theCenter to showcase our Senior Fellows andalso, I hope, to attract more applications forresearch time at the Center. Conjointly, Iwant to use these occasions to involve otherresearch centers around the university andthe city and thereby to further the visibilityof the Center.

The other initiative I would like to see is to facilitate work in-house in the DivinitySchool among faculty in a particular area(say, Theology or History of Judaism) thatwill increase the vitality of work and also the general conversation in Swift Hall. TheMarty Center has always been a place forthis faculty to meet and to discuss topics ofshared interest. I am hoping in various waysto build on that past. The precise form thesemeetings will take will obviously be deter-mined by the participants, but I am alreadyhaving conversations with various folks abouthow to facilitate those discussions.

In the course of the next three years I hopethese initiatives will become permanent features of the work of the Center.

CIRCA: Tell us something about your current(non-MMC) projects, and your goals forfuture research?

WS: I intend to do more work on the themeof theological and religious humanism in avariety of ways. My next big project, which I am now beginning, builds on my previouswriting and will tackle the whole theme of“ethics and the integrity of life.” This willinvolve historical work—in (say) terms ofhow ideas of “life” are used in Christianthought but also the legacy of Lebensphilo-sophie and also current ethics—but alsodebates at the interface of ethics, religion,and the life sciences. My intention is thatthis research will find expression in a systematic work in theological ethics.

Beyond those projects, I also try to beresponsive to various requests to speak andto write on a host of topics. Who knowswhat the future holds in that respect? Thatfor me is just part of the adventure of think-ing. And I am delighted that I can continuethe adventure in a new way through mywork with the Marty Center. ❑

William Schweiker is the Edward L. Ryerson Distinguished Service Professor of Theological

Ethics. He was appointed to the directorship of the Martin Marty Center in May, 2007.

Here he discusses his future plans for the Center.

“Freedom of inquiry is moreimportant today than at

anytime in the recent past, andthat is true, I believe, even for

the religions themselves.”

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Last winter, as the Alma Wilson TeachingFellow, I taught a course on sixteenth-century Anabaptism and Spiritualism andthe representations of these “Radical” move-ments in historical and fictional narratives. I knew it would be a great quarter when, onthe first day, several of my eighteen studentsquestioned the title of my course: “TheRadical Reformation of the Sixteenth Century.” For what exactly did I mean by“radical”? Indeed, as more than one studentpointed out, “radical” could mean many different things. I was more than happy tobegin my answer by explaining that whileMartin Luther was clearly the most theolog-ically radical of the Reformers who broke withthe Roman Church, given his claim that weare saved by grace through faith and are there-fore simul iustus et peccator in this life, Lutherwas also a social conservative who condemnedthe peasant uprisings in the Empire between1524 and 1525 and relied on the Germanprinces for support against Rome.

By highlighting Luther’s social conser-vatism, I was then able to introduce thesocially “Radical” reformers and sects thatwe were to study within the historical context of the mid-1520s and beyond. As James Stayer points out in The GermanPeasants’ War and Anabaptist Community of Goods (required reading in the course),many who participated in the Peasant’s Warfelt that Luther and Zwingli had not fullybased their reforms on the model of theApostolic Church, especially with respect to the idea that one must choose to followthe example of Christ and reshape the socialorder along New Testament lines. This viewgained currency among a group of Swissreformers led by the humanist ConradGrebel who began to re-baptize each otherin January of 1525 in order to separate them-selves from the false Christians in Zurich(hence the pejorative term “Anabaptist,”

Marty Center Fellowship Programs

A Report from the Wilson Teaching Fellow

Each year, the Alma Wilson Teaching Fellowship, made possible

by a generous endowment gift, provides one advanced graduate

student in the Divinity School an opportunity for supervised

teaching experience in the University of Chicago’s undergraduate college.

history and fiction. To that end, I asked for a book review of the recent popular spythriller Q written by a group of four Italianactivists now known as Wu Ming (at the timethey used the pseudonym “Luther Blissett”).This novel tells the story of an Anabaptistwho began as a disciple of Thomas Müntzerand narrowly escaped death during the Peasants’ War, unlike “Magister Thomas,”who was quickly executed after his capture.Our hero would go on to survive the siegeof Münster in 1535, form a new life among a group of spiritualizing Anabaptists in theNetherlands, become rich by cheating therichest banking family of Europe throughcredit fraud, and finally help finance the dis-semination of the subversive Benefit of Christin Venice in the late 1540s. Throughout thenovel he plays a game of cat and mouse witha heretic hunter and spy named Q who worksfor none other than the zealous Catholiccounter-reformer Gian Pietro Carafa, laterPope Paul IV (r. 1555 – 1559). My studentsrose to the occasion in their reviews, remind-ing me that every work of history or historicalfiction tells readers as much or more aboutthe time period of the author(s) than theactual events depicted in the narrative. Forexample, some of my students argued thatour Anabaptist’s progressive movement fromovert revolutionary violence to subversiveeconomic and propagandistic measuresagainst the Imperial and Papal status quoreflects the Italian authors’ view that oftenthe most effective way to produce change in society is by quietly undermining thefoundation of power, not confronting ithead-on. Our readings of Gottfried Keller’snovella Ursula and Friedrich Engels’s TheGerman Peasants War in the last few weeksof the course likewise demonstrated that theRadical reformers of the sixteenth centurycould be useful for later generations of socialradicals or conservatives looking for charlatans,heretics, or heroes.

Finally, I assigned a research paper onsome aspect of the Radical Reformation,due at the end of the course. Given that the course was cross-listed in History andReligious Studies, I gave the students con-siderable freedom to pursue their own inter-ests, and they did not disappoint. I learnedwhy there was no lasting Radical Reformationin Sweden (there was one printing press,controlled by the pro-Lutheran Crown),why the Schleitheim Confession of 1527 isreminiscent of the Rule of St. Benedict andits focus on obedience (its author, MichaelSattler, had been Prior of St. Peter’s monasteryin the Black Forest), and how contemporaryUnitarians have appropriated the sixteenth-century Socinians into their own historicalmemory. These are but a few examples ofthe fine work produced by my students, andI thoroughly enjoyed reading their bookreviews and final papers. In fact, most of thecredit for this course goes to them, for thehigh quality of their written work, groundedin our lively discussions of the primary andsecondary readings in class, would havebeen impossible without their dedicationand hard work throughout the quarter. ❑

— Adam Darlage

“Indeed, as more than one student pointed out,

“radical” could mean many different things.”

or “Wiedertäufer”). A few Radicals evencontended that armed revolutionary actionwas necessary to free the common peoplefrom their bondage to the secular and eccle-siastical “fat cats” and usher in the Kingdomof God. None other than Thomas Müntzer,perhaps the most well known Radicalreformer of the sixteenth century, heraldedthis position. Finally, some Radicals, troubledby the increasing proliferation of Anabaptistsects in the 1520s and 1530s, contended thatthe true Church of God was internal andspiritual. They therefore abandoned relianceon external ceremonies or rites to somedegree or another and claimed adherence tothe true Church of the Spirit. Such was theview of the “Spiritualist” Sebastian Franck,who argued that the true visible Church hadfallen after the death of the apostles.

One of the most interesting aspects of the course was our look at various represen-tations of the Radical Reformation in

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This year’s Marty Center disserta-tion seminar is being offered intwo sections, one led by WilliamSchweiker, director of the Center;

the other led by Wendy Doniger, past director.Both the Senior Research Fellows and

Junior Dissertation Fellows, listed below, willparticipate in the seminar, which is designedto advance interdisciplinary research in allareas of religious studies. Junior Fellows willbe required to present their individual pro-jects not only within the seminar, beforetheir peers, but before public interlocutorsat a special spring meeting. The seminar’sgoal is, thus, to help participants articulatetheir projects in ways that will be intelligible

to specialists and non-specialists alike.

This year the MMCis instituting a newevent, the Senior Fellow Symposium.This event will allow a Senior Fellow to present her or his workin a public forum to

members of the seminar, the entire DivinitySchool community and also members of theUniversity and interested persons. ProfessorMary Gerhart will be speaking at the firstSenior Fellow Symposium to be held thisyear, with a reception to follow. The datewill be announced on our website.

Senior Research Fellow

Our Marty Center Senior Research Fellowfor 2007–2008 is Mary Gerhart. ProfessorGerhart will be working on a book with theworking title The Divine Conjectures: Towarda Loving Universe, based on what is knownof the workings of conjecture and hypothesisin science and religion.

Mary Gerhart (Ph.D. 1973) is ProfessorEmerita of Religious Studies at Hobart and

William Smith Colleges inGeneva, New York. Sheserved as Editorial Chair ofReligious Studies Review and as visiting professor at theUniversity of Houston and of Notre Dame.

Her academic work haslong emphasized an inter-disciplinary approach. Herbooks include The Question

of ‘Belief ’ in Literary Criticism: An Introduc-tion to the Hermeneutical Theory of PaulRicoeur (1979, based on her dissertation)and Genre Choices, Gender Questions (1992).With Anthony Yu, she published Morpholo-gies of Faith: Essays in Religion and Culturein Honor of Nathan A. Scott, Jr. (1990). The Christianity Reader, an 864-page anthol-ogy of primary texts from 200 BCE to thepresent—which she edited with FabianUdoh—appeared in July 2007.

Her work with physicist Allan Russell

Junior Fellows

Of our sixteen junior fellows, thirteen areDivinity School students and three areextradepartmental.

Barbra Barnett, “Religious Arguments in the Public Square: An Examination ofReligious Freedom in Discourse Theory of Law and Democracy”

Brian Collins, “Themes of Matricide, MassKilling, Cattle Theft, and Mixed Birth inthe Mythology of Parashurama”

Adam Darlage, “Priests Under Pressure:Catholic Polemics and Propaganda inNikolsburg, Moravia (1575–1610)”

Erik Davis, “Society After Trauma: Buddhism and The Dead in ContemporaryCambodia”

Spencer Dew, “Pedagogy and Community:Kathy Acker’s ‘Talmudic Mode’”

Joel Harter, “The Word Made Flesh: Symboland Coleridge’s Theological Hermeneutics”

Elizabeth Hopp-Peters, “Breaking Pots,Making Metaphors: Prophetic Action Narratives in the Book of Jeremiah”

Jeff Israel, “Jewish Humor and PoliticalCivility: On Moral Play with Tradition, Self, and Others”

Meira Kensky, “Trying Man, Trying God:The Divine Courtroom in Jewish andChristian Literature”

David Monaco, “The Sentences of the Syriac Menander: Introduction, Text andTranslation, and Commentary”

Edward Silver, “The Schools of Jeremiah:Signs, Symbols and Text-Formation in theBook of Jeremiah”

Sandra Sullivan, “I Was Hungry and You Gave Me Food: Agape, Justice and Special Relations Seen Through the Lens of Dependent Care”

Thomas Zebrowski, “Theology and Philos-ophy in the Ethics of Alasdair MacIntyre”

Extradepartmental Fellows

Sean Anthony, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations“‘Abd Allah b. Saba’ and the Saba’ıya: The Origins of Shı’ism and Ghuluwbetween History and Theologoumena”

Melissa Weininger, Committee on Jewish Studies“Imagining ‘That Man’: Three Jewish Writers on Jesus”

Hong You, East Asian Languages and Civilizations“Popular Religious Revival in ContemporaryChina: Religion, Local Culture, and the State”

Marty Center Fellows 2007-2008

The Martin Marty Center, continuing its emphasis on global interactions and aspects of religion, will

have one senior fellow and sixteen junior fellows in 2007‒08.

broke new ground with their MetaphoricProcess: The Creation of Scientific and ReligiousUnderstanding (1984) and New Maps for Old:Explorations in Science and Religion (2001).Their third book is her project for her yearas a Marty Center Fellow.

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extend their sincere thanks to all who support the work of the

School. The following alumni, friends, and organizations

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and Lydia V. Beckman Joan L. Bell-HaynesBennett and AssociatesThomas R. Bennett IIDouglas C. BensonThe Biblical Colloquium Clyde A. and Carol Lee BlackMary M. BoyveyHilary M. Bradbury James M. Brandt William O. BreedloveWalter L. Brenneman, Jr. Herbert BronsteinDon S. BrowningGary Broxmeyer and FamilyMuriel BroxmeyerJohn M. BuchananJorunn Jacobsen BuckleyRichard Clarence Bush, Jr. Thomas Anthony ByrnesKathleen Anne Cahalan and

Donald B. OttenhoffJean K. CarneySoon-Hyang ChungJohn B. Cobb, Jr. Kelton Cobb and

Heidi GehmanLee A. CrawfordKeith A. DavisRobert D. DenhamCora K. DiceJeffrey Edward DoaneDimis T. DowseJohn L. Dreibelbis Thomas A. Droege Paul Brooks DuffDennis C. DulingClaudette T. DwyerOtis C. Edwards, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Stan EliasRobert S. Ellwood, Jr. Alan C. Embree

J. Ronald EngelRussell L. and Delores M. FateMichael and Mona FishbaneMiles Mark Fisher IVDavid H. FongFourth Presbyterian ChurchSally Jacobson FrosticBartlett GageEugene V. GallagherBoyd GibsonElmore Giles, Jr. Penny Gill Jean GilliesRoger GilmoreG. Wayne GlickJoanna F. and Mark A. GoodinJanice E. Gordon-BarnesDonald E. GowanGerald J. and Jean GreggGalen J. Guengerich and

Holly G. AtkinsonRoger D. HaightCharles H. HambrickGary L. HarbaughNancy A. HardestyJ. Albert HarrillRoger Hatch and

Joyce A. BaughRobert A. HausmanJohn and Susan Rae HelgelandThomas Eugene HelmStewart W. Herman IIIStephen A. HirbyWilliam G. HortonWilbur K. HuckMarjorie M. HyerHenry Idema IIIDouglas Jake JacobsenRobert W. and Joan M. JaisCharles L. JohnsonBarbara Bakke KaiserMasahiro KanoTeruo KawataWerner H. KelberHugh J. Kennedy, Jr. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel KenskyG. Richard KernTakeshi KimuraHans-Josef KlauckFrederick C. KlawiterMichael C. KotzinRonald E. Krahenbuhl Rebecca Susan Krantz William R. LaFleurJames Welborn LewisMichael LiebArmin H. and Shirley LimperJeffrey H. LindgrenJeffrey S. and Paula R. LindnerDiana Lynn LingafelterLowell W. and

Lois Gehr LivezeyPeter MachinistWilliam MadgesKevin J. Madigan and

Stephanie Ann PaulsellWilliam Kalley MahonyDavid Raymond MasonGerald Patrick McKennyCatherine McNally-Allen and

William H. AllenWoodrow S. MertensMessiah Lutheran ChurchWilliam E. Middleton and

Barbra Anne HardyDavid H. MileyAlan L. MillerJames R. Monroe, Jr. Dominic V. Monti William H. MooreKenneth R. MuseSusan NashGordon L. NelsonRandolph A. NelsonScott D. NielsenNorth Shore

Congregation Israel Eric W. NyeCharles Daniel OrzechSueo OshimaRobert J. Parker, Jr. and

Sarah Elizabeth TaylorE. Spencer ParsonsJohn H. PattonEdwin D. PetermanEdward Albert Phillips, Jr. G. Philip PointsLynn Margaret PolandThomas H. Quigley, Jr. and

Jane Quigley Jill RaittGene ReevesKenneth F. Ripple

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Gifts in memory of Professor Tikva Frymer-Kensky

The Divinity School is grateful for the gifts made during the 2006-

07 academic year to honor the life and work of Professor TikvaFrymer-Kensky. The donors are listed below. If you would like tocontribute to the Tikva Frymer-Kensky Memorial Fund, please con-tact Mary Jean Kraybill at 773-702-8248 or mjkraybill@uchicago.edu.

Barbara AndrewsThe Biblical ColloquiumEsther Stern Bloom and

Benjamin BloomHerbert BronsteinDara BroxmeyerMr. and

Mrs. Gary BroxmeyerMuriel Broxmeyer and

Richard WeilSusan BroxmeyerEmily BrunnerJohn and Faye Chaplin

Penny GillJon GruenbergSteven HarrisMr. and Mrs. Samuel KenskyHersch KlaffMr. and

Mrs. Richard KirschnerRebecca Susan KrantzDeborah LewisPeter MachinistStanley MarderMargaret MitchellKelly Murphy

Mr. and Mrs. MurrayMr. and Mrs. Sam PfefferDebra SamuelsDonna Shewach and

Stan EliasWilliam ShinerGary and Marion SilvermanDaniel and Katie SnellMr. and Mrs. Julius SolomonElsie Ruth SternRichard and June SwartzWeisbach Family

Elliott and Lynn Ross-BryantStephen C. RoweWilliam L. SachsDebra SamuelsMarthame E. Sanders IIISarah Bowen and

John-Paul SavantLindell L. SawyersGregory SchneiderCraig Alan SchroederJames Hubert ShackelfordTalbert O. ShawVivian Irene SheltonDonna ShewachGerald Lawson Sittser, Jr. Jeffrey S. SlovakBrent A. and Patricia SmithHuston C. SmithBrent W. Sockness and

Barbara Pitkin Bob Speaks, Jr. John Richard SpencerElsie Ruth Stern Alan J. StoneGail Hinich SutherlandRobert P. TaylorWilliam E. and

Dian M. Taylor Laura Jean Torgerson and

Timothy Q. DonaghyEmilie M. TownesDonald H. TreeseGeorge Samuel TreynorJeffrey Alan TrumbowerJohn R. Van Eenwyk Peter Higbie Van NessDavid Garrett VellengaJimmy N. WalkerLarry F. WaltmanWelton WarkentinGeorge A. WeckmanJ. Stafford WeeksJay Douglas WexlerDonald H. WheatDavid G. WhiteRobert K. Wilson-BlackLydia Nell WittmanArnold Jacob WolfRalph C. Wood, Jr. and

Suzanne C. Wood Richard W. Young

Swift Hall Club$1 – $99

Cherie Weitzner AciernoSamuel Lawrence AdamsRobert Eugene AlvisKatherine J. Amato-Von HemertMaria A. AntonaccioDianne Emi ArakawaYaakov Shalom and

Rachel ArielWilliam BairdDorlan Clio BalesWayne E. Barr John R. BeanFrancisco J. BenzoniWilliam Joseph BergerBenjamin Bloom Family Esther Stern Bloom Thomas A. Borchert and

Rhonda WilliamsJohn W. BousemanGary A. BousmanWilliam Clyde BrownC. Conrad BrownePreston M. Browning, Jr.Dara BroxmeyerEmily Sarah Brunner Stanley E. Brush Margaret K. BurkeyHugh W. BurtnerArthur A. and

Erica Moore CallahamJason A. CarbineAmy R. CarrJ. Harley Chapman, Jr.Jacqueline Jinhui ChoKenneth E. ChristiansenGerald ChristiansonDavid Ashton ClairmontRobert J. ClarkDonn M. CoddingtonJoseph A. ComberWarren R. and

Clara C. CopelandPamela Del CoutureWilliam R. CrockettSteve J. CrumpRobert Phillips DavidowJames A. DentonGeorge A. Drake

Mae J. DurlandStephen Curtis DuvallLeland E. ElhardW. Douglas EnsmingerS. Bernhard ErlingMartin J. Essig and

Yvonne T. GilmoreH. Joan EvansDaniel Rush FinnKelly Erin FinnKirstin Boswell FordRobert E. FrederickGerald W. GilletteDuane Gilbert GrageJames GreenThomas G. GreenL. Eugene GrovesJon GruenbergMark A. and

Leslie McPherson HadleyJames S. HamreAmy Lignitz HarkenSteven L. Harris and

Barbara Bruno Robert A. HausmanDavid M. HeldDavid Lyle HerndonPaul S. HiyamaGael A. HodgkinsAbigail Christine

Zang HoffmanJohn C. Hollowell, Jr.Wesley V. HromatkoBrian Keith HunterBetsy Ellen Jansen-KamphuisChanning R. JeschkeJennifer Gonder Jesse and

John T. DunganThomas E. JohnsrudLarry A. JonesRichard K. KaeskeMichael Edwin KarunasRobert H. Keller, Jr.Michael Jon KesslerIssa J. KhalilPatricia L. and

Richard J. Kirschner Lloyd R. and Janet KittlausKenneth H. KleinDonald S. KlinefelterJohn A. Knight, Jr. and

Melody D. KnowlesEmily Joyce Magdelyn KnoxKaren E. KnutsonRobert Emil KoenigPaul KollmanCarl E. KriegDale G. LaskyBlaise LevaiDeborah and David LewisErika Ann LindenHubert G. LockeJerome H. LongCharles Harvey LordLutheran Church

of the ResurrectionMary Noelene MacDonaldLeland H. MahoodTeresa A. MaltbyFranklin M. MangrumJesse Dayton MannStanley MarderTroy Wayne MartinD. David MaxfieldLinda C. McClainPark McGintyJohn A. MeardonJohn R. MendoncaEsther M. MennDavid G. MesenbringJeffrey F. MeyerLauree Hersch MeyerLester V. MeyerDale Miller, Jr.Gilbert E. MillerWilliam Thomas MooreJoseph M. Morales and

Patricia BlanchetteRussell R. Morgan, Jr.Mark and

Donna Morrison-ReedKelly MurphyRichard Fleming NanceElyse Anne Nelson Winger

and Stewart WingerSusan L. NiederfrankDouglas R. W. NorellNorth Shore

Congregation IsraelStephen Michael OkeyLinda E. OldsJon Fredric PahlHarry B. PartinPeiying Peng

Barbara A. G. PetersonMr. and Mrs. Sam PfefferRoy D. PhillipsAnthony Richard Picarello, Jr.George V. PixleyLouis M. PrattCraig R. PrentissElena G. Procario-FoleyArthur Marvin PryArthur E. and

Judith C. PuotinenMark Allan RamionRudolph Rex ReederRichard RiceRosalind J. RichardsMac Linscott RickettsDong-Gook RohClark N. RossT. Howland SanksAnthony F. ScheurichJ. Peter SchinellerJohn J. SchmittRichard and June SwartzMichael A. ScottRonald Eugene SelleckEdgar Paul SenneRichard E. SherrellMarion and Gary SilvermanDonald R. and

Patricia Hawes SimeStephen A. and

Cynthia L. SimmonsMichael Bart SkerkerMarvin E. SmithDaniel and Katie SnellJulius and Alice W. Solomon Julius and Alice SolomonTed J. SolomonTerry E. SparkesRichard E. StarkeyArvel Meryl SteeceWilson W. SteinbrecherElsie Stern

Walter M. Stuhr, Jr.Rex J. StyzensMichelle SunJune and Richard SwartzPaul Joseph ThiboutotJ. Mark ThomasJames Jonathan ThompsonNancy M. TillyCaroline Catherine ToltonRobert H. TuckerKerry Merle TupperHerbert F. VetterNelvin L. VosWeisbach FamilyJason Terrence WallWilliam J. WassnerVan B. WeigelJames WellmanNorman Albert WellsRichard W. WernerPaul Henry WestermeyerCharles Alan WilsonDavid E. WitheridgeJames Ora YerkesEdward A. YonanDaniel J. Zehnal

Matching Gifts

The following companies and foundations generouslymatched gifts made during the2006–2007 academic year:

Abbott Laboratories Accenture FoundationField Foundation of Illinois, Inc.International Business

Machines, Inc.PfizerUSG Foundation, Inc.

Gifts in Honor of Individuals

The Divinity School offers special thanks for gifts thathonored individuals during the2006–2007 year.

In honor of Allan Cox’s birthdayRichard P. and

Ella D. StrubelWilliam E. and

Dian M. Taylor

In honor of Susan and Peter Ward Marty’s anniversary

Joan W. Ward

In honor of Professor Bernard Meland

Iver F. Yeager

Gifts in Memoriam

The Divinity School offers special thanks for gifts thathonored the memory of individuals during the 2006–2007 year.

In memory of Professor Langdon Gilkey

J. Keith Keeling

* Deceased

Grants made to the Divinity School during the 2006–2007 academic year:

E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Foundation — To support internationalsummer internships for ministry students.

The Ford Foundation — For the International Association of Black Religionsand Spiritualities under the direction of Professor Dwight Hopkins.

The Lilly Endowment, Inc. — To fund the three-year project Border Crossing:Collaborative Theological Reflection for Ministry.

Andrew W. Mellon Foundation — In support of Professor Anthony C. Yu’sresearch and writing on the sixteenth-century masterwork of traditional Chinesefiction, The Journey to the West.

Grants to the Divinity School

Non-Profit Org.

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Dean of Students’ Report

Enrollment

This fall, the DivinitySchool enrolled 81 enteringdegree candidates (1 A.M.R.S., 54 M.A., 16 M.Div.,and 10 Ph.D.)

Convocations

Autumn 2006

M.Div.Myung Sahm Suh

Ph.D.Claudia Dorit BergmannElizabeth Marie BucarWilliam Andrew Wright

Winter 2007

M.A.Jerome V. Caponigro

Ph.D.Antonios Finitsis

Spring 2007

M.A.Peter Bradley AndresJordan Renee BerryJohn B. Crosby IIIRachel Katherine CundyAntonia Michelle DaymondDeirdre Anne Debruyn Robert Timothy DesmondAnca DraganescuTarick Fathi Elgendy Vincent Matthew EvenerElaine Marie FisherEmilie Clare GoodhartAllison Leigh GrayMichelle Anne GuittarTiffani Christine JonesBradley Glenn KershnerPhilippa Rose KochRohit KukretiNicole Verenita Lasky Meryl Wells MazepaLaura Ruth Patten Sanchez Daniel Arthur RoberAlexander Keith Rocklin

Simone M. SandyRebekah Erinn Revelle

StackhouseJoseph Edward Steineger IVThomas J.Tropp

M.Div.Bret Alexander ChandlerCiahnan Quinn DarrellBenjamin James DueholmJohn Zachery FlackApril Joy LewtonMegan Catherine MioVy Thanh NguyenJoshua James PattyJacqueline Mary Ellen PosekKyle Gordon RaderPolly Rebecca Toner

Ph.D.Jane Louise Kanarek

Student Fellowships,Grants and Awards

Ahluwalia Memorial GrantSunit Sarvraj Singh

AIIS Junior Research FellowshipOscar Carlos

Figuero-Castro

Charlotte W. NewcombeDoctoral Dissertation FellowshipDavid Charles Albertson

Fulbright-Hays Groups Projects Abroad GrantAllyson Celeste Gonzalez

Fulbright IIEBenjamin Schonthal

Henry Luce FellowshipBonnie K. Carenen

Mellon ACLS DissertationCompletion FellowshipNoah Daniel SalomonForeign Language and Area Study Fellowships(FLAS)

Summer QuarterEllen Alexis AmbrosoneJawad QureshiAlexander Keith Rocklin

Academic YearEllen Alexis AmbrosoneAnthony Sadek BanoutSidney Sun HuangRuchama Jerusha

Johnston-BloomCharles Scott PrestonAlexander Keith Rocklin

College Graduates in Religious Studies2006–2007

Nine students completedfourth-year B.A. papers inReligious Studies this year,led by the B.A. paper precep-tor, Joel Harter. They andtheir topics are (advisors’names follow in brackets):

Jared Conrad-Bradshaw“In Bad Hands: PrayerBeads and Religious Scholarship”(Christian Wedemeyer)

Daniel Cooperider “Musings on Mystical Pragmatism in Henry DavidThoreau and CharlesSanders Pierce” (W. Clark Gilpin)

Monica Groat “Reconsidering the Wall of Separation: An Analysisof Thomas Jefferson’sUnderstanding of the

Relationship between Religious Belief and Religious Practice in Lightof the Free Exercise Clause” (W. Clark Gilpin)

Joshua Kellerman “The Influence of Eschatology on SocialActivism and its PerceivedChances of Success” (Omar McRoberts)

Mary Grace Lin “Attaining to God: Maimonides and Levi ben Gershom on Intellect in the Book of Job” (James Robinson)

Cindy Nneoma Osueke“Rejecting the Curse ofHam: Nationalism and its Effects on ReligiousInterpretation in ColonialNigeria” (Dwight Hopkins)

Annie Theodoropoulos “Myths, Masks, and Discourse: Defining theBoundaries of Personhoodin Yup’ik Alaska” (Bruce Lincoln)

AnnaLinden Weller “Reclaiming the Consecratiofor Christ: Imperial CultImagery and the ChristianEmperor in Eusebius’ Vita Constantini” (Hans-Josef Klauck)

Jessica Wolman “‘We Are Israel’: The Septuagint, the Parting ofthe Ways, and the Formationof a Christian Identity” (Margaret Mitchell)

Some of our Ph.D. graduates are available for appointment. Their resumes can be accessed online at http://divinity.uchicago.edu/resumebook/index.html