November 10, 2016 Academic Life and Scholarship as Spiritual Practice
Elizabeth Liebert Professor of Spiritual Life San Francisco Theological Seminary
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November 5, 2015 A Terrible Beauty: Reimagining Human Rights
William O'Neill Associate Professor of Social Ethics
Jesuit School of Theology of Santa Clara University
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November 6, 2014
Reformations that Matter (and Some that Don’t)
Christopher Ocker Professor of Church History
San Francisco Theological Seminary
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November 5, 2013 From Paris to Alcalá: The Franciscan School and the University, 1219-1533
William Short, OFM Dean and Professor of Christian Spirituality Franciscan School of Theology
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November 8, 2012
Black Religion in the Atlantic World During the Age of Revolution: Excavating the Sublime 
James Noel H. Eugene Farlough Jr. Professor of African American Christianity
San Francisco Theological Seminary
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November 8, 2011 What Does Scholarship Have to Do with Activism? Reflections on 15 Years in the Trenches
Mary Ann Tolbert George H. Atkinson Professor of Biblical Studies
Pacific School of Religion
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November 9, 2010 Will Spirituality Have a Past?
Arthur Holder John Dillenberger Professor of Spirituality
Dean and Academic Vice President
Graduate Theological Union
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November 17, 2009 Awkward and Alive: Secularization and Religion Reconsidered
Philip L. Wickeri Flora Lamson Hewlett Professor of Evangelism and Mission San Francisco Theological Seminary
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November 11, 2008 Learning to Speak a New Tongue: Imagining a Way that Holds People Together
Fumitaka Matsuoka Robert Gordon Sproul Professor of Theology
Pacific School of Religion
Executive Director, Institute for Leadership Development
and Study of Pacific and Asian North American Religion (PANA)
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November 13, 2007 Who Do You Say I Am? The Fundamental Question for the Moral Life
Richard Gula S.S. Professor of Moral Theology
Franciscan School of Theology
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November 2, 2006 When God's Friend Becomes God's Problem: The Punitive Elijah and the Loving God According to St. Romanos the Melode
L. William Countryman Sherman E. Johnson Professor in Biblical Studies
Church Divinity School of the Pacific
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November 9, 2005 Supporting Cast or Supporting Caste: Reading Minor Characters in Biblical Narrative
Gina Hens-Piazza Professor of Biblical Studies Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
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November 10, 2004 Fruitful Flailings: Reading the Anger of the Prophet Jonah
Barbara Green Professor of Biblical Studies Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology
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November 19, 2003 The Gift of Responsibility: Fostering Global Social Contracts
Lewis S. Mudge Emeritus Professor of Theology San Francisco Theological Seminary
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November 13, 2002 The Sense of Beauty and the Talk of God
Alejandro Garcia-Rivera Associate Professor of Systematic Theology Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
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November 1, 2001 Christian Theology and Natural Science: Accomplishments and Challenges
Robert J. Russell Professor in Residence of Theology and Science, Founder and Director of the Center for Theology and the Natural Sciences Graduate Theological Union
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November 1, 2000 Entering Other Worlds: Theological Learning and Non-Christian Religions
Judith Berling Professor of Chinese and Comparative Religions Graduate Theological Union
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November 1, 1999 Invisible Forces That Determine Human Existence: The Middle Passage
Archie Smith James and Clarice Foster Professor of Pastoral Psychology and Counseling Pacific School of Religion
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November 1, 1998 Discerning the Spirits, Practicing the Faiths: The End of the Millennium Quest for Spirituality
Martha Ellen Stortz Associate Professor of Historical Theology and Ethics Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary
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November 1, 1997 Lost and Found in California: Religious Historians Discover the Pacific
Eldon Ernst Professor of American Church History American Baptist Seminary of the West
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November 1, 1996 Love and Violence: Languages of Christian Intolerance
J. Rebecca Lyman Professor of Church History Church Divinity School of the Pacific
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November 1, 1995 Deprivatizing Religion and Revitalizing Citizenship
John Coleman, SJ Professor of Religion and Culture Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
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November 1, 1994 The Pacific: Lake or Cauldron?
John Hilary Martin, OP Professor of Theology and Philosophy Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology
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November, 1993 Salvation of the Flesh: Contradictory Starting Points
Mary Ann Donovan, S.C. Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
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November, 1992 The God of Jesus in the Gospel Sayings Source
Antoinette Wire San Francisco Theological Seminary
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November, 1991 Visions of an Interfaith Future
Durwood Foster Pacific School of Religion
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November, 1990 Scientific Research and the Christian Faith
Ted Peters Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary
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November, 1989 The Hesitant Pilgrim: Catholic Biblical Scholarship Approaching the 25th Anniversary of Vatican II
John R. Donahue, S.J. Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
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November, 1988 Varieties of Mystical Nothingness: Jewish, Christian and Buddhist
Daniel C. Matt Center for Jewish Studies, Graduate Theological Union
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November, 1987 Biblical Interpretation and Spirituality: Towards a New Testament Hermeneutics of Transformation
Sandra M. Schneiders, I.H.M. Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
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November, 1986 The Abundant City
Clare Benedicks Fischer Starr King School for the Ministry
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March, 1986 (1985 Lecture) Dogmatics in Process
Benjamin A. Reist San Francisco Theological Seminary
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March, 1985 (1984 Lecture) From the End of the World to the End of World: Apocalyptic as a Social Hermeneutic
William R. Herzog San Francisco Theological Seminary
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March, 1984 (1983 Lecture) 1984 -- Orwell and Barmen
Robert McAfee Brown Pacific School of Religion
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November, 1982 An Unwanted Legacy?
Claude Welch Graduate Theological Union
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November, 1981 Luther and the Heart's Native Language
Robert J. Goeser Pacific Lutheran Theological Seminary
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November, 1980 Ecumenical Theology: Its Possibilities and Limitations
Kenan B. Osborne, O.F.M. Franciscan School of Theology
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November, 1979 Toward a Feminist Ethic: A Schizophrenic Witness
Karen Lebacqz Pacific School of Religion
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November, 1978 Atheism and Contemplation
Michael J. Buckley, S.J. Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
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November, 1977 The Size of God
Bernard Loomer Graduate Theological Union
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November, 1976 Dante's Comedy: A Vision of 'What Is and Was and Is to Come'
Massey H. Shepherd, Jr. Church Divinity School of the Pacific
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