Kathryn Tanner to deliver Harvey Lecture
Mar 22, 2010
Dr. Kathryn Tanner
AUSTIN, TEXAS -- Kathryn Tanner, theologian, writer and educator, will deliver the Harvey Lecture at Seminary of the Southwest on March 22.
Dr. Tanner will speak at 6:30 p.m. in Knapp Auditorium on the seminary campus at 501 E. 32nd Street. Doors open at 6:00 and the lecture is free and open to the public. The title of her lecture is "Gender and the Trinity".
Kathryn Tanner is the Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor of Theology in the Divinity School at The University of Chicago. In her teaching and writing she addresses contemporary challenges to Christian belief.
She has written about beliefs about God's relation to the world, cultural studies' relevance for rethinking theological method, and systematic theology and the incarnation. Her latest book, Christ the Key, explores the centrality of Jesus Christ for Christian thought and life.
A self-described "cradle Episcopalian", Tanner is interested in thinking hard about issues that come up in Church life that Christians face on a day-to-day basis.
Dr. Tanner was a featured speaker at the 2010 Trinity Institute on "Building an Ethical Economy" hosted by Trinity Church, Wall Street.
The Harvey Lecture, organized annually by seminarians, honors the late Very Rev. Hudnall Harvey, dean of Seminary of the Southwest from 1968 to his death in 1972. The lectureship serves as a living memorial to Dean Harvey's ministry at Southwest.
