These semi-monthly seminars, presented by the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity in collaboration with the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine are a regular gathering of faculty, students, clinicians, and others interested in the intersections of theology, medicine, and culture during the fall and spring semesters. Continuing education credit is available.

Join TMC co-director Farr Curlin, M.D. and Ekaterina Lomperis, Ph.D., to discuss her recent book. In it, Lomperis looks to recover Martin Luther’s little-studied theology of medicine, arguing that Luther prized the proper use of medicine as a divinely preferred means of actively resisting bodily suffering. Curlin and Lomperis will explore how this early modern “reformation of healing” might inform contemporary practices of medicine and efforts to reform those practices.

These semi-monthly seminars, presented by the Theology, Medicine, and Culture Initiative at Duke Divinity in collaboration with the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine are a regular gathering of faculty, students, clinicians, and others interested in the intersections of theology, medicine, and culture during the fall and spring semesters. Continuing education credit is available.

Where death was once something that simply “happened” to us, advances in medicine now require us to make choices about how and when we die—and we often do so bereft of cultural or religious guidance. Dr. Travis Pickell traces the roots of this “burdened agency” and proposes alternatives drawn from Christian theology and practice. This conversation between Pickell and TMC Associate Director Brett McCarty will explore what this account offers both to those facing death and to those who accompany them.