Forum on Religion and Society
2009 Lecturer: Patrick Miller
The 2009 James Luther Adams Forum on Religion and Society will be held Monday, January 12, at Princeton Theological Seminary in Princeton, N.J. The forum will take place at 1:15 p.m. in the Erdman Center.
The speaker is Dr. Patrick D. Miller, Charles T. Haley Professor of Old Testament Theology Emeritus at Princeton Theological Seminary, who will address Adams's use of the Bible.
2007-2008 Lecturer: Michelle Campagnolo Bouvier
The 2007-2008 James Luther Adams Foundation Forum on Religion and Society will be held on April 6, 2008, at 7:00 p.m. at the Emerson Unitarian Universalist Church in Houston, Texas.
The lecture will be given by Michelle Campagnolo Bouvier, Secretary General of the Société Européenne de Culture in Venice, Italy. She will discuss her own contacts with Adams as well as his significant relationships with her father, André Bouvier, and her husband, Umberto Campagnolo.
She will be setting her reflections in the wider context of Adams's collaboration with her father in the ecumenical field and will be looking for traces of the influence of Harvard Divinity School, where Adams taught, on them. She is pleased to be drawing particular attention to Adams's ecumenical interests, a topic that the Forum has not yet treated at length. She will discuss Adams's influence on the ecumenical movement and particularly upon the development of the Société Européenne de Culture.
Harvey Cox's 2007 Lecture Now Online
The text of Professor Harvey Cox's lecture, delivered March 15 as the 2006-2007 James Luther Adams Forum on Religion and Society, is now available online as a PDF. In his address, Cox examines the rise of evangelical and Pentecostal churches in Brazil — known as crentes — which illustrate many of Adams's ideas about voluntary associations. Cox asks what crentes are doing in Latin America to nurture the rise of genuine democracy and how they are beginning to influence public policy.
2006-2007 Lecturer: Harvey Cox
This year's James Luther Adams Forum on Religion and Society will be held on Tuesday, March 13, 2007, at 5:15 p.m. in the Sperry Lecture Hall of Harvard Divinity School in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
The lecture will be given this year by Dr. Harvey G. Cox, Jr., Hollis Professor of Divinity, at the Divinity School. His topic will be "James Luther Adams: Evangelical Unitarian or Unitarian Evangelical?" Professor Cox is eminently qualified to speak on this topic as a doctoral student and former colleague of Adams on one hand. On the other hand he has an active knowledge of Evangelicalism from his own background, including InterVarsity in college, and from team teaching courses at Harvard with outstanding Evangelical and Pentecostal scholars. This interest has also been reflected in his writings.
A reception will follow.