21st annual Wheaton Theology Conference will be organized on the topic “Bonhoeffer, Christ, and Culture” between April 12 to 13 at the college campus. The event will be hosted by Wheaton College Biblical and Theological Studies department. The conference is co-sponsored with Inter Varsity Press.
Conference participants will explore Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s thought and ministry, emphasizing particularly on his views of Jesus Christ, the Christian community, and the Church’s engagement with culture. Keynote speaker Jean Bethke Elshtain is the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Professor of Social and Political Ethics, Divinity School, The University of Chicago, and holder of the Leavey Chair in the Foundations of American Freedom, Georgetown University.
Charles Marsh is Professor of Religious Studies and Director of The Project on Lived Theology at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Reclaiming Dietrich Bonhoeffer: The Promise of His Theology; God’s Long Summer: Stories of Faith and Civil Rights; Wayward Christian Soldiers: Freeing the Gospel from Political Captivity; and Welcoming Justice: God’s Movement toward Beloved Community (with John M. Perkins). Marsh is currently writing Strange Glory: A Life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, to be published by Knopf (New York) and Ullstein (Berlin). Eminent speakers also include Lori Brandt Hale, Joel Lawrence, Stephen Plant, Reggie Williams, and Philip Ziegler.
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