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Dr. Norman WirzbaSpring 2012
Scholar-in-Residence

Dr. Norman Wirzba


Research Professor of Theology, Ecology, and Rural Life
Duke University Divinity School

The Honors Community is pleased to announce its 14th Scholar-in-Residence lecture series. We will welcome Dr. Norman Wirzba to Union University for a series of four midday lectures February 14-17.

Dr. Wirzba is Research Professor of Theology, Ecology, and Rural Life at Duke University Divinity School. He pursues research and teaching interests at the intersections of theology, philosophy, ecology, and agrarian and environmental studies. In particular, he focuses on understanding and promoting practices that will equip both rural and urban church communities to be more faithful and responsible members of creation.

His recent books include Food and Faith: A Theology of Eating (Cambridge), The Paradise of God: Renewing Religion in an Ecological Age (Oxford), and Living the Sabbath: Discovering the Rhythms of Rest and Delight (Brazos). He has also edited The Essential Agrarian Reader: The Future of Culture, Community, and the Land (Counterpoint) and The Art of the Commonplace: The Agrarian Essays of Wendell Berry (Counterpoint).

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Scholar-in-Residence Lectures
  • 2012 - Norman Wirzba
    "Living in God's Creation"
  • 2011 - Gilbert Meilaender
    "Facing the Dying of the Light: Perspectives on Aging and Dying"
  • 2009 - Gerald L. Bray
    "God is Love"
  • 2009 - John Woodbridge
    "The Surprising Vitality of the Christian Faith During the European Enlightenment"
  • 2008 - Tom Cooper
    "Mass Media in a Changing World: Media Ethics"
  • 2008 - Paul Fiddes
    "Ancient and Modern Wisdom: Seeing the World and Knowing God"
  • 2007 - Nigel Goodwin
    "In Vivo-Transformation"
  • 2006 - Richard Chewning
    "Becoming Partakers of the Divine Nature"
  • 2005 - Millard Erickson
    "Theology and the Disciplines"
  • 2004 - James Leo Garrett, Jr.
    "Baptist Theology in Historical Perspective"
  • 2003 - James Sire
    "Habits of Worldview Thinking"
  • 2002 - Anthony Thiselton
    "Horizons in Literary Interpretation"
  • 2001 - David Cook
    "Morality in the Postmodern World"
  • 2000 - Arthur F. Holmes
    "Shaping the Christian Mind"