Sarah Coakley, the Norris-Hulse Professor of Divinity at Cambridge University, will deliver three lectures during the School of Theology’s 2015 DuBose Lectures, Wednesday and Thursday, Sept. 23–24. At 9 a.m., Wednesday, Sept. 23, she will talk on “Return to Sacrifice? Biblical and Historical Mandates for a Messy Metaphor”; at 1:45 p.m., Wednesday, Sept. 23, she will lecture about “Repressing Sacrifice? Freudian and Feminist Critiques in a Modern Era”; and at 9 a.m., Thursday, Sept. 24, her topic will be “Rescuing Sacrifice? The Irreducible Significance of Sacrifice in a Théologie Totale.”
The DuBose Lectures are open to the public and free of charge, made possible by the DuBose Lecture Fund.
Coakley is a systematic theologian and philosopher of religion with wide interdisciplinary interests. She is currently writing a four-volume work in systematic theology, the first volume of which (“God, Sexuality and the Self: An Essay ‘On the Trinity’”) was published in 2013. Her related apologetic work spans the divides between natural science, social science and philosophy of religion. In her writings for the church she is especially concerned with the tight connection of spiritual practice, asceticism and contemporary theories of gender and race.
The annual DuBose Lectures feature prominent theologians from around the world and are based on the lectures given by William Porcher DuBose in 1911. Beginning in 1871, DuBose served the University of the South for more than 37 years in various positions and is widely regarded as being the most influential American theologian of the Episcopal Church.
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