CFI Newsletter - Volume 3 - Summer 2015

Our Common Concern for the Least Among Us Seán Patrick Cardinal O’Malley, Archbishop of Boston, delivers the Quasquicentennial Lecture on April 20

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The Center for Faith and Inquiry is dedicated to promoting first-order scholarship, reflection, creativity, and conversation, drawing from Christian intellectual and spiritual traditions, the various academic disciplines, and the wisdom found in societies and cultures at large. The insights and ideas derived from our work aim to serve Gordon College, the Body of Christ, and the common good.

From the Director We enjoyed an engaging year at the Center for Faith and Inquiry, and for it we are tremendously grateful to our friends and supporters.

It is, therefore, bittersweet to share news of my departure from Gordon College. After the 2015-16 school year, the Howard family heads to Valparaiso University, where I’ve accepted a post as Professor of History and the Humanities and will hold the Phyllis and Richard Duesenberg Chair in Christian Ethics; my wife Agnes will serve as a lecturer in Valparaiso’s honors college, Christ College. We are thankful, however, to be here at Gordon one more year.

For two weeks this summer, I and twenty other scholars—ten from North America, ten from India—will join the Nagel Institute at Calvin College for an intensive travel seminar examining social and economic development in India, culminating in a book of essays. I am very much looking forward to this endeavor.

Our academic year at the CFI begins September 21 with a conference, “Islam in the Classroom: Challenges and Opportunities of Teaching about Islam in a Post-9/11 World,” which will feature a keynote address by Amir Hussain, editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion.

We also have a rich line-up of speakers in our Faith Seeking Understanding lecture series, including Stanley Hauerwas (Duke Divinity School), Ken Elzinga (UVA), and William Hurlbut (Stanford), among others.

The upcoming 12th cohort of the Jerusalem and Athens honors program will, alas, be my final one. I look forward to hosting this stellar group. In the spring, Drs. Paul Brink (Political Science) and Jennifer Hevelone-Harper (History) will begin to take over the program as I transition into my new position. I am grateful to be handing this program to such esteemed colleagues.

Finally, I hope that you might join us for an end-of-year reception at spring Symposium, April 21, 2016, so that Agnes and I may bid you, our dear friends and colleagues, farewell.

Blessings,

Tal Howard

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Highlights

Photo Seán Patrick Cardinal O’Malley meets members of Gordon’s Catholic Student Fellowship during his visit to campus

This was a year of conversation and crossing boundaries. To honor Gordon’s 125th anniversary, the Center hosted Seán Patrick Cardinal O’Malley, Archbishop of Boston, for the Quasquicentennial Lecture titled, “Our Common Concern for the Least Among Us.” Students in the JAF program attended mass at local Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox parishes, learned how Muslims read the Qur’an from Imam Dr. Talal Eid, Executive Director of the Islamic

Institute of Boston, heard from professor Marvin R. Wilson on his new book about our Hebraic heritage, and attended discussions and worship with the Benedictine brothers at Portsmouth Abbey in Rhode Island. On the facing page, Cana Short, a sophomore participant in this year’s JAF cohort, reflects on her experience crossing boundaries during this day trip to Rhode Island.

Photos LEFT: Dr. Marvin Wilson signs copies of his recent book on January 29 before a discussion of the publication.

MIDDLE: JAF students see Swan Lake at the Boston Ballet.

RIGHT: Artwork for the 2015 Symposium, “Appearance and Reality: Why is it that what seems to be often is not what is?”

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Crossing Boundaries in Love Streams of colorful light refracted from the rectangular slivers of stained glass on the interior walls of the Portsmouth Abbey chapel. Turquoise, wine red, violet, ocean blue; the elegant twinkling of colors took my breath away as I walked into the silent, hallowed space. I glanced at several classmates who stood alongside me.

Their faces (and several gaped mouths) betrayed that they were undergoing a similar experience. For many of us, this space presented a new and mystical encounter.

Back in February, the Jerusalem and Athens Forum went on an outing to Portsmouth Abbey, a Benedictine Monastery in Portsmouth, Rhode Island. We had prepared for the outing by reading several writings

by Pope Francis, and spent a short time discussing these readings with our host, one of the Abbey’s abbots, during our visit. In a particularly memorable moment of this discussion, the abbot remarked, “As short as few decades ago, I do not think I could have foreseen this event taking place. A group of Protestant college students visiting a Catholic monastery, discussing a Pope’s writings with a Benedictine abbot; such ecumenical encounters would have been unimaginable.” What had perhaps seemed like a casual “field-trip,” inconsequential for purposes beyond our own edification and enjoyment, was actually a historical moment worth celebrating.

Following our discussion, we attended a vigil service that took place in the aforementioned heart-quieting sacred space. It was different from any kind of worship service I had experienced before. And yet, I did not feel like a stranger. Around me, I saw brothers and sisters gathered together in contemplative worship. We entered into moments of quiet prayer as one. Our voices came together harmoniously as we echoed the simple yet elegant Gregorian chants led

by three abbots in the center of the chapel.

Our hosts’ gestures of hospitality continued into the evening. After the vigil service, we joined our hosts and a group of visiting Chilean monks for a time of dinner and fellowship.

Conversation and laughter pervaded the room, questions and responses crisscrossing the dinner tables. I was struck by how much we shared— whether in our appreciation for the warm and satiating food, or in our desires to dedicate our lives to Christ.

These Chilean monks had come to the abbey for a period of several months to instruct the students of Portsmouth Abbey high school in lectio divina, a contemplative and prayerful method of reading the Scriptures. They had crossed geographic and cultural boundaries to live life together with the Portsmouth Abbey community, and to share the fruits with which they had been gifted. Although they had never engaged in lectio in a language other than their mother tongue, this linguistic challenge did not keep them from guiding the high school students.

Their zeal to show these students how they could immerse themselves in the life-giving world of Scripture gave them the courage to cross a multitude of barriers.

Witnessing the zeal and earnestness of these Chilean monks inspired me to reflect within myself, what divides might I have the courage to cross, guided by the same divine love that seemed to inspire their efforts?

What divides and barriers might we be willing to cross in love, my brothers and sisters of Gordon College?

CANA SHORT ’17 Cana Short is a sophomore studying history and English at Gordon College. She is from Chiba, Japan and is a 2014-15 alumna of the Jerusalem and Athens Forum honors program.

Photos TOP: Brother Damian gives JAF students a tour of the grounds at the Benedictine Portsmouth Abbey in Rhode Island on February 28. MIDDLE: JAF Students at the First Baptist Church in America, Providence, Rhode Island, where they received a tour from J. Stanley Lemons, Emeritus Professor of History at Rhode Island College and Clerk and Historian at the church.

BOTTOM: The Blessed Virgin at dusk in the Portsmouth Abbey Chapel.

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Photo Imam Dr. Talal Eid speaks with JAF students and other campus guests about how Muslims read the Qur’an.

Jerusalem and Athens Forum Gordon’s Interdisciplinary, Great-Books, Honors Seminar The 11th cohort of the Jerusalem and Athens Forum (JAF) honors program engaged a year of study, discussions, events, and trips examining the history of western theology, philosophy, and literature, from Aristotle, Augustine, and Dante to Alexis de Tocqueville, Adam Smith, and Flannery O’Connor.

This year featured a presentation from Imam Dr. Talal Eid, executive director of the Islamic Institute of Boston, on “How Muslims Read the Qur’an”

(pictured), and a series of three discussions with Dr. Bruce Webb, emeritus professor of economics and business at Gordon, on Catholic social thought and Christian perspectives on economics. The 11th cohort was the first in program history to visit the Boston Ballet to see Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake, and was also the first to read Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov in its entirety.

Alumni Spotlight “I enjoyed my return to JAF this past winter in Orvieto, Italy for the JAF291 seminar. While we viewed art every day, we never stepped into a museum, instead experiencing it ‘at work’ in churches and civic centers.”

—Margaret Ivy ’11 (JAF 2010-11) Margaret Ivy is a grant writer in the Provost’s Office at Gordon College and participated in the inaugural section of JAF291: International Seminar in Italy.

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Outings and Discussions A Year of Museums Museum of Fine Art JAF students visited the MFA, Boston, viewing art with significance for their course of study in “Tradition” during the fall semester. Notable exhibits included Dante and Virgil (pictured), a replica of a traditional Spanish Chapel, and Medieval altar pieces emphasizing Mary the mother of Christ.

Peabody Essex Museum

Harvard Art Museum On Saturday, March 28, JAF alumni and students gathered at the newly-renovated Harvard Art Museums in Cambridge, MA. Their extensive collection includes works by Michelangelo, Albrecht Dürer, Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Rembrandt and Monet, among others. Lunch followed at the nearby Grafton Street Grille.

Favorite Books This cohort’s favorite texts included Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s Brother’s Karamazov, Josef Piper’s Leisure, the Basis of Culture, and Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World.

JAF students enjoyed PEM’s permanent collections of maritime seascapes, and other African American, Asian export, and Native American art, including Edward Mooney’s Portrait of Ahmad bin Na’aman (1840).

Alumni Trips Past Trips

Upcoming Trips

Philadelphia June 20–23, 2014

Iceland: Place, Culture, and Theology in a “Frontier” Location, September 15-20, 2015

“The city of brotherly love,” Philadelphia is one of America’s iconic, historically significant cities. JAF alumni, staff, and faculty visited Independence Hall, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and a series of important houses of worship, including Old St. Josephs Church, the oldest Catholic parish in Philadelphia; Christ Church, where most of the continental congress worshiped in 1776; and the Arch Street Quaker Meeting House. Students also enjoyed two discussions, the first on early American politics and religion with John Fea (Messiah College), and the second on early Lutheranism in America with Jon Pahl (Lutheran Theological Seminary of Philadelphia).

Iceland fascinates. Its beguiling landscape is well known: active volcanoes, glaciers, lava beds, waterfalls, thermal baths, geysers, fjords, not to mention regular appearances of the “northern lights.” Iceland’s past is equally beguiling: a frontier outpost of Scandinavian culture and Norse religion, Iceland witnessed the coming of Christianity (1000) and then the coming of Lutheranism (1540-50s). Yet today Christianity has virtually evacuated the land, making it among the most secular places on earth even while the Norsemen’s “Althing” is today the oldest parliamentary body in the world. Tally everything up and you have a compelling JAF alumni study trip.

Photos LEFT: Independence Hall, Philadelphia, PA. MIDDLE: Mark Whitfield ’12, Chelsea Kapes ’15, Abigail Nash ’15, Katie Nellis ’14, Lauren Bennett ’09, Professor Tal Howard, and Matthew Reese ’15 in front of the Philadelphia Museum of Art. RIGHT: Discussing Quakerism at the historic Arch Street Quaker Meeting House.

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Photo Dr. Sindiso Mnisi Weeks delivers the 2015 Franz Lecture, “Women in Post-Apartheid South Africa” on February 26

Faith Seeking Understanding An Ongoing Lecture Series at Gordon College This year’s series featured another notable list of speakers and inaugurated two new named lectures.

Dr. J. David Richardson, Syracuse University (pictured below, left), delivered the inaugural John Mason lecture, and Rev. Dr. Oliver O’Donovan, University of Edinburgh (pictured below, center, with his wife Joan and Rev. Dr. Malcolm Reid), delivered the inaugural Malcolm Reid Lecture. Dr. Rosalind Picard, MIT’s Media Lab (Right), delivered

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the second annual Tak Yan Lee Endowed Lecture on Science and Faith, titled “On Machines, Humans, and Our Common Future.” Other speakers included Peter Berger (Boston University), Eleonore Stump (Saint Louis University), Eric Gregory (Princeton University), Sindiso Mnisi Weeks (UMASS, Boston; former Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University), and Katie Kresser (Seattle Pacific University).

2014–15 Lectures KATIE KRESSER

ELEONORE STUMP

ROSALIND PICARD

September 30, 2014 Associate Professor of Art, Seattle Pacific University

November 13, 2014 Rober J. Henie Professor of Philosophy, St. Louis University

February 12, 2015 Director of the Affective Computing Research Group, MIT Media Lab

THE WALTER AND DARLENE HANSEN LECTURE

“The Surprising Muse: Reflections on Art and Faith”

J. DAVID RICHARDSON October 13, 2014 Professor Emeritus of Economics and International Relations, Syracuse University THE INAUGURAL JOHN MASON LECTURE

“Social Entrepreneurship for the Sake of the Kingdom: Why Microeconomics Matters”

OLIVER O’DONOVAN October 23, 2014 Professor Emeritus of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology, University of Edinburgh, Scotland

“The Nature of the Atonement”

ERIC GREGORY December 1, 2014 Professor of Religion, Princeton University THE ANNUAL CRUM LECTURE

“Augustine and the Art of Politics”

PETER BERGER December 2, 2014 Professor Emeritus of Religion, Sociology, and Theology, Boston University

“The Challenge of Religious Pluralism”

THE TAK YAN LEE LECTURE ON SCIENCE AND FAITH

“On Machines, Humans, and Our Common Future”

SINDISO MNISI WEEKS February 26, 2015 Professor of Public Policy of Excluded Populations, University of Massachusetts Boston THE ANNUAL FRANZ LECTURE

“Women in Post-Apartheid South Africa”

SEAN PATRICK CARDINAL O’MALLEY April 20, 2015 Archbishop of Boston THE QUASQUICENTENNIAL LECTURE

“Our Common Concern for the Least Among Us”

THE INAUGURAL MALCOLM REID LECTURE

“Action and Rest”

2015–16 Lectures KENNETH ELZINGA

RICHARD SEAGER

MOLLY WORTHEN

October 6, 2015 Robert C. Taylor Chair in Economics, University of Virginia

December 3, 2015 Bates and Benjamin Professor of Religious Studies, Hamilton College

April 7, 2016 Assistant Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

“Economics and Theology in Conversation”

STANLEY HAUERWAS October 29, 2015 Gilbert T. Rowe Professor Emeritus of Divinity and Law, Duke Divinity School

“How to Be Theologically Funny”

“Interfaith Dialogue: A Brief History”

BRIAN JOHNSON February 18, 2016 President, Tuskegee University

“Race and Higher Education: The State of Our National Conversation”

GREGORY WOLFE

WILLIAM HURLBUT

November 19, 2015 Writer-in-Residence, Seattle Pacific University; Editor, Image

March 17, 2016 Consulting Professor of Neurobiology, Stanford Medical School

“Christian Humanism and the Vocation of the Artist”

“Biotechnology and the Human Future”

“The Crisis of Authority in American Evangelicalism”

MARK ROCHE April 21, 2016 Rev. Edmund P. Joyce Professor of German Languages and Literature, University of Notre Dame

“Making the Case for the Liberal Arts”

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Photo Dr. Kirsten Sanders ’05 interviews her former mentor, Dr. Marvin Wilson, during a conversation on his recent book

Respectful Conversations Ongoing Conversations Our Respectful Conversations brought us into contact with a variety of faith traditions, including Judaism, Eastern Orthodoxy, and Islam. Dr. Kirsten Sanders ’05 interviewed her former mentor and teacher Professor Marv Wilson on his new book. Dr. Sanders is also an alumna of the first JAF cohort, and the first JAF student to complete doctoral work, which she did at Emory University. Dr. Nicholas Ganson (Bridgewater State University) shared a

history of Eastern Orthodoxy in a public lecture, and we were also pleased to host two faculty-student discussions, one titled “Civic Society and the Common Good” and the other titled “The Vocation of an Artist in Our Time.” The Center also hosted the 18th annual Spring Symposium and a conference, “God, Globalization, and the Good Society in Asia Today.”

Books and Conversations Exploring our Hebraic Heritage Professor Marvin R Wilson, Exploring Our Hebraic Heritage: A Christian Theology of Roots and Renewal (Eerdmans, 2014).

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Civil Society & the Common Good A discussion of the essay “To Empower People,” by Peter Berger and Richard John Neuhaus, with Carter Crocket (Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership), Tim Sherratt (political science), and Bruce Webb (emeritus, economics and business)

The Vocation of an Artist in Our Time A discussion with JAF students of Jacques Maritain’s essay “Art and Scholasticism,” with Dean of European Programs John Skillen and Professor Bruce Herman (art).

Conferences God, Globalization, and the Good Society in Asia Today A one-day conference at Gordon College on October 20, 2014 Cosponsored by The Review of Faith and International Affairs at the Institute for Global Engagement, this conference examined the implications of religious resurgence for public life in Asia, with keynote addresses given by Dr. Brian Grimm, president of the Religious Freedom & Business Foundation, and Dr. Fenggang Yang, Professor of Sociology and founding Director of the Center on Religion and Chinese Society at Purdue University, founding Editor-in-Chief of the Review of Religion and Chinese Society, and the President-elect of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion.

“In part as a result of globalization, the challenges and opportunities of robust religious pluralism are now front-burner issues in Asia, the most religiously diverse region in the world. This exciting collaboration between CFI and The Review of Faith & International Affairs brought together experts for a nuanced, practical exploration of the complex roles of religion in Asian public life today.”

Dennis Hoover, Ph.D. Dennis Hoover is Vice President for Research and Publications at the Institute for Global Engagement, executive director of the Center on Faith & International Affairs (CFIA), and editor of CFIA’s journal, The Review of Faith & International Affairs.

God, Globalization, and the Good Society in Asia Today OCTOBER 20, 2014 A one-day conference at Gordon College Cosponsored by The Institute for Global Engagement www.gordon.edu/godandasia

Photos LEFT: Keynote, Brian Grimm (Religious Freedom & Business Foundation); MIDDLE TOP: Txiaoli Wang (Pu Shi Institute for Social Sciences); MIDDLE BOTTOM: Todd Johnson (Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary); RIGHT: Dennis Hoover

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Recent Events Herrmann Lectures on Faith and Science

Photo Dr. David Lahti ’93, Dr. Dick Wright, emeriti faculty, Dr. Randy Isaac, American Scientific Affiliation, and Rev. Dr. Lucas Mix, Harvard University, at the Herrmann lectures in November 2014

The Robert Herrmann Lectures on Faith and Science take place at Gordon College and honor Dr. Bob Herrmann, friend and colleague of Sir John Templeton and a past faculty member and health professions advisor at Gordon College.

Since their beginning in 2012, the lectures have been given

by Dr. Owen Gingrich, Professor Emeritus of Astronomy and of the History of Science at Harvard University and a senior astronomer emeritus at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, and by Gifford Lecturer Dr. Denis Alexander, Emeritus Director of the Faraday Institute for Science and Religion, St Edmund’s College, Cambridge, where he is a Fellow. Dr. Gingerich’s lectures were published by Harvard University Press in October 2014 as God’s Planet. We are pleased to invite NASA’s Dr. Jennifer Wiseman to deliver the 2016 lectures.

Symposium 2015: Appearance and Reality

Photo Senior David Popa ’15 paints publicly during Symposium 2015 on April 16

This year’s Symposium theme, Appearance and Reality, asked students and faculty to ponder questions of truth, reality, and deception in a wide variety of ways, through presentations, discussions, art installations, drama, and music. Highlights included the live creation of a mural on the lawn in front of KOSC (pictured above), discussions on gender roles, misconceptions of Orthodox and Catholic traditions, feminism, political engagement, icons, cryptography, medieval manuscripts, and political liberalism. The day concluded with a talk by Betsy Cowan, Neighborhood Business Manager for the city of Boston, about her work with immigrant entrepreneurs. The keynote address was given by Dr. Ruth Melkonian-Hoover (political science) on the reality behind the political rhetoric of U.S. immigration policy.

Upcoming Events Jennifer Wiseman | NASA Dr. Wiseman is a senior astrophysicist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, where she serves as the Senior Project Scientist for the Hubble Space Telescope.

She will deliver the Robert Herrmann Lectures on Faith and Science in the fall of 2016.

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Scholarship Publications A Question of Conscience The Excommunication of Ignaz von Döllinger

A Future for American Evangelicalism Commitment, Openness, and Conversation

Thomas Albert (Tal) Howard CFI Director

Harold Heie CFI Founding Director

Commonweal, October 10, 2014 commonwealmagazine.org/questionconscience

Wipf & Stock, May 2015 wipfandstock.com/a-future-for-americanevangelicalism.html

Making Sacrifices: Visions of Sacrifice in European and American Cultures

Published lectures from the God, Globalization conference

Impanation, Incarnation, and Enabling Externalism

Gregor Thuswaldner co-editor (with Nicholas Brooks) CFI Senior Fellow 2014–15

Brian Grimm The Modern Chinese Secret to Economic Growth

Religious Studies, Volume 51, Issue 01 (March 2015), pp 75-90

New Academic Press, July 2015 www.newacademicpress.at

The Slave Rebellion: Tragedy and Possibility in the Theatre of Raul Hernandez Garrido Pilar Pérez Serrano CFI Faculty Fellow, 2014-15 Editorial Fundamentos, Spring 2014

James Arcadi CFI Visiting Fellow 2014-15

journals.cambridge.org

Robert P. Weller Global Religious Change and Civil Life in Chinese Societies Faith & International Affairs, Summer 2015 globalengage.org/faith-international-affairs

A Theology of Immigrant Labor Ruth Melkonian-Hoover CFI Faculty Fellow, 2013-14 Comment, April 30, 2015 www.cardus.ca/comment

www.editorialfundamentos.es

Presentations September 19, 2014 “Religious Nationalism, the Legacy of the Reformation, and the Manifesto of the 93”

March 4, 2015 “Ignaz von Döllinger and Catholic Theology before the First Vatican Council”

April 29, 2015 “Dissonant Theatre Fictions: Fracture and Representation in Mayorga, Bezerra and Garrido”

Thomas Albert (Tal) Howard CFI Director

by Thomas Albert (Tal) Howard CFI Director

Pilar Pérez Serrano CFI Faculty Fellow, 2014-15

Oxford University, UK The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities

Cambridge University, UK The Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities

University of Buffalo North East Modern Language Association

www.torch.ox.ac.uk/culture-theology-andworld-war-1

www.crassh.cam.ac.uk/events/25682

www.buffalo.edu/nemla

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CFI Fellows Senior Fellow

Steve Hunt Professor of New Testament

Gregor Thuswaldner Professor of German and Linguistics at Gordon College and Academic Director of The Salzburg Institute of Religion, Culture and the Arts

Visiting Fellow Rev. James Arcadi Adjunct Professor at Gordon College and Assisting Clergy at Christ the Redeemer Anglican Church

Places and Spaces in the Gospel of John In collaboration with Rev. Bob Whittet, director of church relations, and 15 Johannine scholars from across the world, grant funds supported our efforts to begin planning for a pastor’s conference to be held at Gordon in 2017 and 2020. This grant also provided funding for new academic software. Finally, funds supported my ongoing work building a bibliography and reading widely in the area of “spatial semantics.” I am asking how “space” and “place” contribute meaning to a story, in preparation for a book on John’s Gospel from this perspective.

Pilar Pérez Serrano

2014-15 Faculty Fellows

Associate Professor of Spanish

Steve Alter

Tragedy and Hope In Contemporary

Professor of History

The Battle for the Bible in America: Old Testament Scholarship and Near Eastern Archeology, 1870–1940 During this project I made significant progress on a major book project, an exploration of American scholars’ engagement with Old Testament “higher criticism” and ancient Near Eastern archaeology in the years 1870–1940. This era saw both the birth of modern Bible scholarship and the golden age of Holy Land exploration, focusing on a large cast of biblical scholars and archaeologists who debated the Hebrew Bible’s historical reliability and religious authority. No work has yet recounted in detail how American scholars of this period argued these issues.

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Spanish Theatre This grant supported my book project titled La rebelión de los esclavos: tragedia y posibilidad en el teatro de Raúl Hernández Garrido (Madrid: Editorial Fundamentos, 2014), and provided an opportunity for me to attend the book’s signing event in Spain. As a result, I also presented a related paper at the Northeast Modern Language Association conference in Toronto in April 2015 entitled “Dissonant theatre fictions: fracture and representation in Mayorga, Bezerra and Garrido.” In addition, I will share portions of this research at a future Faculty Forum at Gordon.

2015-16 Faculty Fellows Lauren Swayne Barthold Associate Professor of Philosophy

Engaging Christians: Towards a Critical, Fallibilistic Dialogue Jennifer Hevelone-Harper Professor of History

Islam and the Classroom: Challenges and Opportunities of Teaching about Islam in a Post-9/11 World Dan Darko Associate Professor of New Testament Studies

Kinship and Leadership in 1 Timothy— Comparative Analysis of GrecoRoman Conventions and Christian Leadership in African Context Moisés Park Associate Professor of Spanish

“Canutismo” in Chile: Bridging Culture Through Ecumenical Narratives

People DIRECTOR Thomas Albert Howard, Ph.D. Director, and Professor of History STAFF

ADVISORY COUNCIL Kenneth G. Elzinga, Ph.D. Robert C. Taylor Professor of Economics, University of Virginia

M. Ryan Groff, M.A.

Christian Smith, Ph.D.

Administrative Director, and Adjunct Professor

William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of Sociology, and Director of the Center for the Study of Religion, University of Notre Dame

Susanne McCarron, M.A. Program Coordinator

Tom and Lyn Shields

2014–15 APPRENTICES

Beverly Farms, MA

Josh Guerin ’16

Janet H. Wills

Mary Hierholzer ’16

President and CEO, Wills Financial Group

Jacob Stephens ’16 Matthew Reese ’15 FACULTY STEERING BOARD Stan Gaede, Ph.D. Scholar-in-Residence, and President of the Christian College Consortium Bruce Herman, M.F.A. Lothlórien Distinguished Chair of Fine Art Jennifer Hevelone-Harper, Ph.D.

Eric Convey Web Editor, Boston Business Journal Alan Jacobs, Ph.D. Distinguished Professor of the Humanities, Baylor University Malcolm Reid, Ph.D. Emeritus Professor of Philosophy, Gordon College; Director of Outreach and Assistant Rector at Christ the Redeemer Anglican Church, Danvers, MA

Professor of History

Mark A. Noll, Ph.D.

Ruth Melkonian-Hoover, Ph.D.

Francis A. McAnaney Professor of History, University of Notre Dame

Department Chair and Associate Professor of Political Science

Richard and Carolyn Lippmann

Bruce Webb, Ph.D.

Wayland, MA

Emeritus Professor of Economics and Business

William R. Cross

Marvin R. Wilson, Ph.D.

Vice President, Eaton Vance Management, Boston, MA

Ockenga Professor of Biblical and Theological Studies

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Islam in the Classroom: Challenges and Opportunities of Teaching about Islam in a Post-9/11 World A one-day conference at Gordon College on September 21, 2015

Speakers Amir Hussain

Judith Rood

Professor of Theological Studies at Loyola, Marymount University; Editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion

Professor of History and Middle Eastern Studies at Biola University

Jennifer Hevelone-Harper

Gabriel Reynolds

Professor of History at Gordon College

LEARN MORE AND REGISTER www.gordon.edu/islamintheclassroom

Professor of Islamic Studies and Theology at the University of Notre Dame

Co-sponsored with the Lilly Fellows Program at Valparaiso University