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2015
Schaff Lectures
Healing Babylon: Hospitality,
Common Life, and the Nature of
Faithful Citizenship.
with
Luke Bretherton
Wednesday
March 25, 2015
First Presbyterian Church
201 Wick Avenue
Youngstown, Ohio
330-744-4307
Introducing Luke Bretherton
Professor Bretherton’s primary teaching
interests are theological ethics, Christian political
thought, missiology and practices of social, political
and economic witness. Before joining the Duke
faculty, he was reader in Theology & Politics and
convener of the Faith & Public Policy Forum at
King’s College London. Prior to that he was director
of Studies of the South East Institute for Theological
Education (University of Kent), which prepared
Methodist, Reformed, and Anglican ministers for
ordination. He has worked with a variety of faithbased NGO’s, mission agencies, and churches around
the world, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe.
His first book, Hospitality as Holiness:
Christian Witness Amid Moral Diversity (Ashgate,
2006) explores the church’s response to moral
pluralism in critical dialogue with Alasdair
MacIntyre’s moral philosophy, and develops a
constructive, theological response to the issues
identified using euthanasia and the hospice movement
as a case study. As well as academic articles
published in journals such as Modern Theology,
Journal of the American Academy of Religion, and
Studies in Chrisitan Ethics, he writes in the media
(including The Guardian, The Times and The
Huffington Post) on topics related to religion and
politics. His recent work has focused on faith-based
organizations, the church’s involvement in social
welfare, provision, community organizing, the
treatment of refugees, and fair trade. That work is
drawn together in Christianity & Contemporary
Politics: The Conditions and Possibilities of Faithful
Witness (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), winner of the 2013
Michael Ramsey Prize for Theological Writing.
When living in the United Kingdom, he was
actively involved in politics as part of London
Citizens, a broad-based community organization. His
current areas of research draws on that experience,
and focuses on the intersections between Christianity,
grassroots democracy, globalization, responses to
poverty, and patterns of inter-faith relations.
L u k e
B r e t h e r t o n
(https://divinity.duke.edu/academics/faculty/lukebretherton), is associate professor of theology ethics
and senior fellow of Kenan Institute for Ethics at
Duke Divinity School, and is the author of
Resurrecting Democracy: Faith, Citizenship, and the
Politics of a Common Life.
Wednesday, March 25, 2015
The David S. Schaff
Lecture Series
4:00 p.m. Clergy, Lay, and Community
Leader Workshop
“The Politics of a Common Life and the
Nature of Faithful Citizenship”
The late Jane Booth Schaff (Mrs.
Philip H. Schaff), 1894-1981, came from a
family with historic ties to theological
education. For twenty-three years, her fatherin-law, Professor David S. Schaff, taught
Church History at Western Theological
Seminary. Western is one of the antecedents
of Pittsburgh Theological Seminary. Before
beginning his teaching duties in 1903, he held
two pastorates.
In her will, Mrs. Schaff provided for
the completion of the endowment of the
previously established David S. Schaff
Lectureship at Pittsburgh Theological
Seminary, with an important stipulation and
addition that the Schaff Lecturer(s) would
deliver one address in Youngstown.
This was a unique concept, bringing
a world-renowned lecturer to the Mahoning
Valley for religious and cultural enrichment.
For this reason, representatives of the
finest scholarship of the theological world
visit Youngstown annually to participate in
this program. This educational experience is
open to people of all denominations and
faiths and celebrates the power of words
shared to create, support, and thus nurture and
strengthen community.
SCHEDULE
3:30 p.m. Registration
6:00 p.m. Boxed Supper
Paid reservations of $8.50 per person must be in
our Church Office by Thursday, March 19, 2015.
(We will not be able to accommodate
walk-ins for dinner).
During dinner, there will be an opportunity to
share in conversation about the workshop and
future work together with Youngstown entities
MVAC and ACTION.
7:00 p.m. Public Lecture
“Poverty, Privilege and Participation in the
Healing Rule of Christ”
All events will be held at
First Presbyterian Church
201 Wick Avenue
Youngstown, OH 44503
330-744-4307
First Presbyterian Church is barrier free.
The church parking lot is accessed
off of Wick Avenue.