Teresa Morgan
Thursday, October 15 | 7:00 PM | Belin Chapel
A Biblical Theology of Hope for the 鈥淚nterim Time鈥�
Friday, October 16 | 11:00AM | Dillon II (Hinton 135)
Hope at the Growing Point of the World
Teresa Morgan is the McDonald Agape Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at Yale Divinity School. She was previously on faculty at Oxford University. She studied classics at Cambridge University, theology at Oxford, and violin and viola in London and Cologne. Her research lies in the history of ideas and mentality, and the social and cultural practices and institutions which shape and are shaped by them. She is especially interested in the way groups of people think: particularly groups 鈥榖elow鈥� the level of the socio-intellectual elites who provide so much of our evidence for the ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern worlds. One idea which underlies all her work is that mentality is as powerful a societal force as, for instance, politics or economics.
Professor Morgan writes across Greek and Roman history, the New Testament, and early Christianity, especially on Greek, Roman, and early Christian ethics (e.g.聽Popular Morality in the Early Roman Empire, 2007), Greek and Roman education (Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds, 1998), and Paul (Being 鈥榠n Christ鈥� in the Letters of Paul: Saved Through Christ and In His Hands, 2020). She is currently coming to the end of a four-volume investigation of the historical evolution, early religious meaning, and contemporary significance of ancient Mediterranean and early Christian trust and faith (Roman Faith and Christian Faith, 2015,聽The New Testament and the Theology of Trust, 2022,聽Trust in Atonement聽(2024), and聽The Invention of Faith聽(forthcoming). When this is finished, she plans to return to ethics with a study of the evolution of Christian ethics in the first four centuries CE.
About the A. O. Collins Lectures
The A. O. Collins lectures began in 1993 with the goal of bringing recognized scholars to address the university community in current trends in theology, religious studies and philosophy. The series is named for Dr. A. O. Collins who chaired HCU鈥檚 Department of Christianity and Philosophy until his retirement in 1990. Over the last two decades, due to the generosity of former students and friends of the university, top scholars from around the world have lectured聽on our campus on a wide range of topics on religion and philosophy.
Our past lecturers have included:
- Dr. James H. Charlesworth, Princeton Theological Seminary
- Dr. Walter Brueggemann, Columbia Theological Seminary
- Dr. Charles Talbert, Baylor University
- Dr. Ellen T. Charry, Princeton Theological Seminary
- Dr. Luke Timothy Johnson, Emory University
- Dr. Alan Segal, Barnard College, Columbia University
- Dr. Samuel Proctor, Duke University
- Dr. John Howard Yoder, University of Notre Dame
- Dr. James W. McClendon, Jr., Fuller Theological Seminary
- Dr. Michael J. Gorman, St. Mary鈥檚 Seminary
- Dr. Larry Hurtado, University of Edinburgh
- Dr. Emanuel Tov, Hebrew University
- Dr. Craig Evans, Acadia Divinity College
- Dr. Richard Bauckham, St. Andrews University
- Mark Lanier, Lanier Theological Library
- Dr. John J. Collins, Yale Divinity School
- Dr. Dale Alison,聽Princeton Theological Seminary
- Dr. David Aune, University of Notre Dame
- Dr. Matthew Levering, Mundelein Seminary
- Dr. David M. Moffitt, University of St Andrews
- Dr. Jack Levison, Southern Methodist University
- Dr. Edith Humphrey, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary
- Dr. Katherine Sonderegger, Virginia Theological Seminary
- Dr. Esau McCaulley, Wheaton College
- Dr. Michael Ward, University of Oxford | 九色视频