Chi Rho Lecture Series – Speakers
2015 – David Ford, Daring Spirit, The Gospel of John for the 21st Century
Listen to David Ford’s lectures from 2015.
2014 – Jack Levison, The Holy Spirit You Never Knew
Listen to Jack Levison’s lectures from 2014.
2012 – Steve Delamarter, The Word Became Flesh and the Flesh Became Word: How Manuscripts Shaped Culture and Culture Shaped Manuscripts
2011 – Gordon Lathrop, The Four Beasts on Sunday: New Testament Gospels and Christian Worship
2009 – Amy-Jill Levine, Jesus Between Jews and Christians
2008 – Carol Newson, Good and Evil: Making Sense of a Senseless World
2007 – Mary Jane Haemig, Teaching the Faith in the American West
2006 – Daniel Falk, Says Who? The Words of God and Human Words
2005 – Ched Myers, The Biblical Vision of Sabbath Economics
2004 – Luke Timothy Johnson, Paul the Apostle: Liberator or Oppressor
2003 – Marva Dawn, Revelation & the Revelation: Being Christian in Crisis Times
2002 – Pheme Perkins, Raising the Dead: Why Does Easter Matter?
2001 – Walter Wink, Becoming Human: The Enigma of the Son of Man
2000 – Marcus Borg, Re-Visioning Christianity: History, Metaphor and Sacrament
1999 – Walter Burghardt, Christians in a New Millennium
1998 – Charles Strozier, Christian Fundamentalism and the Apocalyptic in the 1990s
1997 – Sandra Schneiders, Sacred Scripture and Christian Spirituality
1996 – James Charlesworth, Jesus and the Dead Sea Scrolls
1995 – Dorothee Solle, After the Shoah
1994 – Phyllis Trible, A Feminist Reads the Bible
1993 – Brian Wren, Reforming Faith: A Poet’s Exploration
1992 – Heiko Oberman, The Relevance of the Reformation: The Gospel for Modern Times
1991 – Raymond Brown, The Passion and Death of Jesus: Issues Historical and Theological
1990 – Leander Keck, Jesus and Salvation
1989 – Fred Craddock, Jesus and the Search to Know God
1988 – Martin Marty, Religious Extremes: Killing and Giving Life
1987 – Walter Wangerin, A Word to the Bewildered
1986 – Walter Brueggemann, Coventanting: Speech with Heaven Obedience on Earth
1985 – Kevin Seasoltz and Don Saliers, Worship Renewal: Symbol and Song
1984 – Justo Gonzalez and Catherine Gonzalez, Signs of Our Theological Times
1983 – George Lindbeck and Harry McSorley, Luther in the 20th Century
1982 – Sister Jose Hobday, Full Living Now
1981 – Elizabeth Bettenhausen, Old Creation / New Creation
1980 – George Forell, The Augsburg Confession
1979 – Krister Stendahl, The Church: God’s Laboratory
1978 – Edna & Howard Hong, An Inland Journey: A Pilgrimage of Possibilities of Human Existence
1977 – Joseph Sittler, The Christian Faith & Three Contemporary Issues
1976 – Edmund Stiemle, The Bible as Story and Our Stories
1976 – Martin Marty, Bi-Centennial Celebration (not Chi Rho)
1975 – James Burtness, Understanding the Holy Spirit
1974 – Robert Bertram, Such Authority to Men: A look at the Gospel of Matthew
1973 – James Kallas, Evenings with the Evangelists
1972 – Hagan Staack, An Old Bible for New Man
1971 – William Lazareth, A Theology of Ecology
1970 – George Forell, Christianity in a Pluralistic World