One of the world’s foremost theologians will deliver the annual Keeney Peace Lecture at Bluffton University next week.
Dr. Stanley Hauerwas, Gilbert T. Rowe Professor Emeritus of Divinity and Law at the Duke University Divinity School, will discuss “How to Remember the Poor” at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 10, in Yoder Recital Hall.
His presentation, addressing the central place of charity for Christian discipleship, is free and open to the public.
Now chair of theological ethics at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, Hauerwas was named “America’s Best Theologian” by Time magazine in 2001. Christianity Today selected his 1981 book, “A Community of Character: Toward a Constructive Christian Social Ethic,” as one of the 100 most important books on religion in the 20th century.
Hauerwas has written more than 40 books, also including, most recently, “Approaching the End: Eschatological Reflections on Church, Politics and Life.” He was also a senior research fellow at Duke Divinity School, where he taught following a long tenure at the University of Notre Dame. He holds four degrees from Yale University, including a Ph.D.; a Doctor of Divinity degree from the University of Edinburgh, Scotland; and honorary doctorates from four universities.
Bluffton’s Keeney Peace Lectureship was established in 1978 by the family of William Sr. and Kathryn Keeney to express appreciation for Bluffton’s influence and to strengthen the continuing peace witness among the community.
