George Walker Redding Lecture- Beth Newman
Event starts: Thu, 02/13/2020 - 4:00pm
George Walker Redding Lecture
February 13, 2020, 4:00 p.m.
The Learning Resource Center, Ward Room
Elizabeth Newman is the author of Untamed Hospitality: Welcoming God and Other Strangers (2007); Attending the Wounds on Christ’s Body: Teresa’s Scriptural Vision (2012); and Divine Abundance: Leisure, the Basis of Academic Culture (2018). She currently teaches part-time at Duke Divinity School after serving as Professor of Theology and Ethics at the Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond from 2002-2019. She is a delegate of the Baptist World Alliance Conversations with the Pontifical Council for Christian Unity (2017-2022), and enjoys hiking, biking and walking her pug.
Lecture Title: “Learning to Stand and Wait: Leisure and Christian Higher Education” - A true college or university needs leisure as the basis of culture. What, however, is leisure? How does it pertain to the classroom and the overall purpose of the school? I argue that true leisure is a participation in a Wisdom not our own. This is the business of the college or university: to maintain, transmit and enlarge that Wisdom. Leisure forms the academy to see both knowing and being as ultimately gifts: a participation in Divine abundance.
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