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Theologian in Residence Weekend, October 9-11, 2020
“The Spiritual Life as Ascent to God: The Gospel of John and the Gospel of Mary”

Ames United Church of Christ and our Theologian in Residence Committee host a yearly weekend learning event. Join us next October 2020 for the 36th Annual Theologian in Residence Weekend featuring Dr. Karen King, Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard Divinity School

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Dr. Karen King

Karen L. King was appointed to the Divinity School in 1997 and from 2003 to 2009 served as the Winn Professor of Ecclesiastical History. In October 2009, she became the first woman appointed as the Hollis Professor of Divinity, the oldest endowed chair in the United States (1721).

Trained in comparative religions and historical studies, she pursues teaching and research specialties in the history of Christianity. Her books include The Secret Revelation of John; The Gospel of Mary of Magdala: Jesus and the First Woman Apostle; What Is Gnosticism?; Reading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity (with Elaine Pagels); and Revelation of the Unknowable God. Other publications include Images of the Feminine in Gnosticism (ed.) and Women and Goddess Traditions in Antiquity and Today (ed.).

Her particular theoretical interests are in discourses of normativity (orthodoxy and heresy), gender studies, and religion and violence. She has received research grants and awards for excellence in teaching and research; among them are grants from the Luce Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, Deutsche Akademische Austauschdienst, and the Graves Foundation. King is a member of the American Academy of Religion, the Society of Biblical Literature, the International Association for Coptic Studies, and Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas.

Schedule of Events (Tentative)

The Theologian-in-Residence Program has been rescheduled for the weekend of September 17-19, 2021.  The Theologian will be, as previously announced, Dr. Karen King of the Harvard Divinity School.  Details about the topic and format for the program (which will be offered remotely) will be available in the near future.

Previous Theologians in Residence

Year
2019
2018
2017
​2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
2005
2004
2003
2002
2001
2000
1999
1998
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1997
1996
1995
1994
1993
1992
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1991
1990
1989
1988
1987
1985
​1984
Theologian
David Vasquez-Levy
Dave Csinos
Harry T. Cook
Barry Lynn
Ruth Duck & Cynthia Wilson
Phyllis Tickle
Gary Dorrien
Marva Dawn
Ingrid Mattson
Peter Sawtell
Walter Brueggemann
Diana Butler Bass
Randall Balmer
Christine M. Smith
Amy Jill Levine
Norman Jackson
Dale Bishop
Doug Adams
John Shelby Spong
John Dominic Crossan
Karen Jo Torjesen
Tex Sample
​
George A. Drake
Rita Nakashima Brock
Robin Scroggs
Marcus Borg
Donald White
Marty McMane
​& Alan Johnson
Brian Wren
Charles Hambrick-Stowe
John Bolen
Keith G. Schrag
Andre LaCoque
Wilson Yates
Henry Gustafson
Theme
"Immigration Matters: Joined Together, Finding Solutions"
​"Will our Faith Have Children?"
"God, Christ, and Religious Action: A Challenge to Your Beliefs and Actions"
"God and Government: Are Religious Liberties Crumbling?"
"Stirred by the Spirit: Spirit-filled Worship and Spirit-filled Congregational Singing"
"Being Christian and Church in 21st Century America"
"The Crisis and Necessity of Progressive Theology"
"Worship When God Seems to Be Absent"
"Islam: Rumor and Reality"
"Biblical Faith and Ecological Hope: Rethinking Theology for the Health of Creation"
​"The Good News of Alternative"
"The Practicing Congregation: Imagining a New Old Church"
"Perspectives on American Evangelicalism"
"Resurrection: Fidelity to Life...in This Life"
"Jesus, Gender, and Judaism"
"Is God's Justice Irrelevant or Central to Our Faith?"
"Building Bridges"
"Bringing to Life the Humor in the Bible"
"A New Christianity for a New World"
"The Historical Jesus and the Birth of Christianity"
"Rethinking Gender: Masculinity and Femininity in Early Christianity"
"Christian Faith and Cultural Diversity: Doing Ministry in Oral, Literate, and Electronic Cultures"
"Puritanism"
"Who Do You Say That I Am?"
​"Exploring the Theology of Paul"
"Meeting Jesus Again for the First Time"
"The Church and the Environment: Modernism and Post-Modernism Views"
"Good News"

"The Language of Worship"
"Spiritual Roots and Spiritual Growth"
"Ethics in the Bible" and "Faith Development and the Church"
"Creating a Just Peace in Home and Church"
"The Church and the Environment"
"Art and the Journey of Faith"
​"A New Vision of the New Testament"
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