Exciting events coming up at Roanoke College

LUTHERAN – CATHOLIC DIALOGUE

September 27—Johannes Brosseder, Professor of Systematic Theology at the University of Cologne, Germany, and expert in ecumenical affairs will lecture on “What Now for Lutherans and Catholics After the 1999 Agreement on Justification?” Professor Brosseder’s presentation will be responded to by the Rev. William Wiecher of College Lutheran Church in Salem, Virginia, and by Monsignor Joseph Lehman of Our Lady of Nazareth Catholic Church in Roanoke County. The lecture will be held at Antrim Chapel on the Roanoke College campus at 5PM. Tickets not required.

GENETIC ETHICS

November 10—“The Promise and Peril of Bio-technological Advance” addressed by James Peterson, Schumann Professor of Christian Ethics and author of Changing Human Nature: Ecology, Ethics, Genes, and God and Fritz Oehlschlaeger, Professor of English at Virginia Tech and author of Procreative Ethics. The lectures and ensuing conversation will be held at Atrim Chapel at 5PM. Tickets not required.

WORLD CHRISTIANITY

On Friday, February 10, at 7:30 in Antrim Chapel, Prof. Michael McClymond (St. Louis University) will speak on “Jonathan Edwards and the Future of Global Christianity.”  McClymond is the co-author of “The Theology of Jonathan Edwards” (Oxford University Press, Nov. 2011).

ABRAHAM LINCOLN

April 4—“Abraham Lincoln’s Moral Constitution” by Allen Guelzo of the Civil War Institute of Gettysburg College, for the joint Fowler and Center event “Mystic Chords of Memory—the Legacy of the Civil War on American Life.”