The Laing Lectures - November 14 and 15, 2007

Love & Justice

Featuring Nicholas Wolterstorff
Noah Porter Emeritus of Philosophical Theology, Yale University; and Senior Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of Virginia

Host John G. Stackhouse, Jr.,
Regent Faculty

Wednesday, November 14
7:30pm Agape in Twentieth-Century Ethics

Thursday, November 15
11:30am Agapism’s Difficulties with Justice
7:30pm Justice Within Love

How ought Christians think and talk about justice? Where does the wariness concerning talk of justice come from? Should Christians really talk about love rather than justice? Or does the New Testament present us with a more integrated understanding of the relationship between love and justice? In his lectures, Dr. Wolterstorff will examine the New Testament textual grounds for a re thinking of our understanding of love and the integral place of justice in biblical ethics.

About Nicholas Wolterstorff

Nicholas Wolterstorff is one of the world’s premier Christian philosophers, a leading figure in a wide range of philosophical conversations.

Wolterstorff received his A.B. from Calvin College in 1953, and his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard University in 1956. After teaching philosophy for two years at Yale, he returned to the philosophy department at his alma mater in 1959. Thirty years later, he returned to Yale where he was a member of the Divinity School, of the Philosophy Department, and of the Religious Studies Department. He has taught, during leaves of absence, at Haverford College, the University of Michigan, Princeton University, the University of Texas, Notre Dame University, and the Free University of Amsterdam. He retired from Yale at the end of 2001 as the Noah Porter Professor Emeritus of Philosophical Theology. Currently he is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia.

He has been President of the American Philosophical Association, and of the Society of Christian Philosophers; he is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Among the lectures he has given are the Wilde Lectures at Oxford University, the Gifford Lectures at St Andrews University, and the Stone Lectures at Princeton Seminary. Among the books he has published are On Universals, Works and Worlds of Art, Art in Action, Until Justice and Peace Embrace, Reason within the Bounds of Religion, Divine Discourse, John Locke and the Ethics of Belief, Thomas Reid and the Story of Epistemology, Educating for Shalom, and Lament for a Son. His major new book, Justice: Rights and Wrongs is to be published by Princeton University Press in early 2008.

Location and parking:

All lectures are free and held in the Regent College Chapel. Please arrive early for a good seat.

Limited parking is available at Regent College after 4:30pm. Additional parking is located a short walk from Regent at the UBC Thunderbird Parkade ($1.50 per hour).

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Photo Credit: Crucifixion. Mirror of Human Salvation. France, 15th Century AD. Art Resource