Annual Lectures

Kenneth W. Clark Lectures

Established in 1984, the Kenneth Willis Clark Lectureship Fund honors the life and work of Reverend Professor Kenneth Willis Clark, a Divinity School faculty member for 36 years. Each year this fund enables the Divinity School to offer a distinguished program with special emphasis on New Testament studies and textual criticism.

These are free public lectures. No pre-registration is necessary.

2012 Lectures

Guest Speaker: Markus Bockmuehl

Markus Bockmuehl is a Fellow of Keble College and Professor of Biblical and Early Christian Studies at the University of Oxford. After high school he stayed in Vancouver for degrees in classics and in theology before pursuing a Ph.D. at Cambridge. He then held academic posts in Vancouver, Cambridge and St Andrews before moving (in 2007) to Oxford, where he currently also serves as an Associate Head of the Humanities Division. Among his recent publications are Seeing the Word: Refocusing New Testament Study (Baker Academic, 2006); Paradise in Antiquity (ed. with Guy Stroumsa, Cambridge, 2010), as well as two books on St Peter: The Remembered Peter in Ancient Reception and Modern Debate (Mohr Siebeck, 2010) and Simon Peter in Scripture and Memory (Baker Academic, 2012 [in press]). Markus and his wife Celia (a conservator of books and works of art on paper) live in rural Buckinghamshire and have five school-age children.

Schedule

Lecture 1
“The Cuckoo in the Nest: How Not To Read the Apocryphal Gospels”
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
12:20-1:20 p.m.
0016 Westbrook, Duke Divinity School

Lecture 2
“The Virgin on the Donkey: Making Sense of the Christmas Story”
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
10:00-11:15 a.m.
0016 Westbrook, Duke Divinity School

Please contact Jacquelyn Norris with any questions.

The James A. Gray Lectures

These annual lectures, established in 1950 as part of a bequest made in 1947 by James A. Gray of Winston-Salem, N.C., are delivered during the Divinity School Convocation & Pastors’ School.

The Franklin S. Hickman Lectures

This lectureship was established in 1966 as part of a bequest by Mrs. Franklin S. Hickman in memory of her late husband, Dr. Franklin Simpson Hickman, professor of psychology of religion, Duke Divinity School, and dean of the Chapel, Duke University. This lectureship enables the Divinity School to bring practicing ministers of extraordinary qualities to lecture and preach, often in conjunction with Convocation & Pastors’ School, and to participate in Divinity School classes, worship, and informal sessions with students and faculty.

The Jameson Jones Lectures

A legacy of the ninth dean of the Divinity School, the Jameson Jones Fund provides for an annual lecture in the practice of ministry. Occasional seminars in preaching are offered in conjunction with the named lectures.