Noted theologian Douglas John Hall
to speak on stewardship
at Gettysburg Seminary

 

Douglas John Hall, one of North America’s leading theologians, will discuss issues of Christian stewardship during two public lectures at Lutheran Theological Seminary at Gettysburg on Oct. 27.

          The first address, Stewardship as Our Human Vocation, explores stewardship as the highest purpose for which human beings are called today.

“We are for the stewarding of life in the midst of many threats to the creation and all its creatures, including homo sapiens!” Hall explains. “How can Christians themselves appropriate this vocation, and how can we formulate ‘gospel’ in light of it?”

          The second, Stewards of the Mysteries of God, looks at the state of Protestantism and prospects for its future. “Today, much that calls itself Protestantism has little or no relation to the classical Protestantism of the Reformers,” Hall said.

“How can we recover the courage of the classical Protestant heritage and become its stewards in a world that is quite different from the world of the reformers?” Some of these same themes Hall touches upon in his latest book, the autobiographical Bound and Free: A Theologians Journey, to be published this summer by Fortress.

The talks will be at 9 a.m. and 10:30 a.m., respectively, on Oct. 27 at the Seminary. At 1:30 p.m. there will be A Dialogue with Douglas John Hall.

Registration fee of $10 includes lunch. For registration call the seminary events coordinator, (717) 334-6286, or wmizenko@ltsg.edu.

The talks are sponsored by the seminary’s Arthur Larson Stewardship Council and take place the day following the Seminary’s annual Luther Colloquy, at which Hall will also speak. Information about the Colloquy is available at www.ltsg.edu/luthercolloquy/colloquium05.htm.

Renowned as one of North America’s prominent systematic theologians, Douglas John Hall is professor emeritus at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, where he taught 20 years before retirement in 1995. He has worked extensively on issues of stewardship and theology of the cross. He is the author of some 25 books, including The Cross and Our Context: Jesus and the Suffering World (Fortress Press, August 2003), The end of Christendom and the future of Christianity (Trinity Press, 1997), and The steward: A biblical symbol come of age, (Eerdmans, 1990).

An ordained minister in the United Church of Canada, Hall lives in Montreal with his wife, Rhoda.