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Annual Theology Department
Tuesday, March 16,
2010 
Our Rev. Vernon Robertson Annual Theology
Lecture took place on Tuesday, March 16, 2010.Our speaker was Robert Louis Wilken, and the title of his lecture was
"Loving God with a Holy Passion: The Erotic Language of the
Song of Songs and the Spiritual Life'. Robert Louis Wilken, recently retired as the William R. Kenan Jr.
Professor of the History of Christianity at the University of Virginia,
has published numerous articles and is the author of ten books,
including: Judaism and the Early Christian Mind: A Study of Cyril of
Alexandria’s Exegesis and Theology; The Spirit of Early
Christianity; Remembering the Christian Past; The
Christians as the Romans Saw Them; and The Land Called Holy:
Palestine in Christian History and Thought. He is also the general
editor of The Church’s Bible, a new commentary series on
books of the Bible composed of quotations from patristic and medieval
commentators. Fr. George Kilcourse - In April 2009 Dr.
Kilcourse presented a paper entitled "'Revelation' and the Good under
construction: Ruby Turpin's Entry into the Purgative Way," at Reason,
Fiction and Faith: An International Flannery O'Connor Conference at
Pontificia Universita della Santa Croce, Rome, Italy. - His review essay on
Kenneth Paul Kramer, Redeeming Time: T.S. Eliot’s Four
Quartets,” appeared in Spiritus [Journal of the Society for
the Study of Christian Spirituality] VIII:2 (Fall 2008), 238-41. Dr.
J. Milburn Thompson - In
May 2009 Dr. Thompson took part in a panel discussion “The Christian
Tradition on War and peace” at the Annual Meeting of the College
Theology Society, held at the University of Notre Dame, IN. - He
published an article, entitled, "Catholic Social Teaching and the Ethics of
Torture," inJournal for Peace and Justice Studies, Vol 17,
Issue 2 (2009), pp. 22-42 - Thompson’s book Justice
and Peace: A Christian Primer (Orbis Books, Rev. Ed., 2003) has
been recently translated into Indonesian. Dr.
Elizabeth Hinson-Hasty -
Last spring, Dr. Hinson-Hasty organized and served on a panel entitled
"Bridging the Divide Between Church and Academy" at the annual meeting
of the Society of Christian Ethics. She also led a four-week lecture
and discussion series at Bardstown Road Presbyterian Church. Over the
summer, she wrote an essay entitled "In Each the Work of All, In All
the Work of Each": Sin and Salvation in Schleiermacher and
Rauschenbusch that will be published in Schleiermacher in America,
edited by Terrence Tice and Jeffrey Wilcox. -
"The Future of the Social Gospel" was published in the April 2009
edition of Theology Today. - She recently presented a
paper entitled “Embodying Wisdom: Creating Effective Communities
ofMoral Discernment in the US Today” at a conference in Velletri,
Italy. Her paper will be translated into Italian and published later
this year.
- Last semester she
also served as a lecturer for a series on “Seeing with the Eyes of the
Heart” that was sponsored by Pinnacle Theological Center in Scottsdale,
Ariz. Her lecture was entitled “Fora Love Beyond All Reasons: God and
the 21st Century Social Creed.” Dr.
Gregory Hillis -
This past summer Dr. Hillis presented papers at two conferences. In May
he presented a paper entitled "The Holy Spirit and the Governance of the
Church according to Cyril of Alexandria” at the Annual Meeting of the
Canadian Society of Patristic Studies in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Also
in May he presented a paper entitled “Baptism and Pneumatology in the
Nestorian Controversy” at the Annual Meeting of the North American
Patristics Society in Chicago, IL. -
His article, entitled, "New Birth through the Second Adam: The Holy
Spirit and the Miraculous Conception in Cyril of Alexandria” has been
accepted for publication in Studia Patristica (forthcoming
2010). - In
July he published an op-ed in The Record, the newspaper for the
archdiocese of Louisville, entitled “Pope
Benedict’s New Encyclical: What it means to ‘Love in Truth’” -
Upcoming presentations include a paper on Cyril of Alexandria's
ecclesiology at the annual meeting of the North American Patristics
Society in Chicago in May 2010.
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