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READ THIS BOOK February 2015
Feb. 9, 2015—Each month, we ask a member of the Vanderbilt Divinity School faculty to recommend a book they are currently reading. Our February recommendation is offered by James Hudnut-Beumler, Anne Potter Wilson Distinguished Professor of American Religious History. This Month’s Book: Weird John Brown: Divine Violence and the Limits of Ethics...
January READ THIS BOOK
Jan. 11, 2015—Each month, we ask a member of the Vanderbilt Divinity School faculty to recommend a book they are currently reading. Our January recommendation is offered by Phillis I. Sheppard, Associate Professor in Religion, Psychology, and Culture. A Womanist Pastoral Theology Against Intimate and Cultural Violence by Stephanie M. Crumpton, Palgrave Macmillan (2014) This past Fall...
READ THIS BOOK – December 2014
Dec. 14, 2014—Each month, we ask a member of the Vanderbilt Divinity School faculty to recommend a book they are currently reading. Our December recommendation is offered by Herbert Marbury, Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible. When I prep for a new course, I use the experience as an opportunity to read new books but also to reread those that...
READ THIS BOOK November 2014
Nov. 9, 2014—Each month, we ask a member of the Vanderbilt Divinity School faculty to recommend a book they are currently reading. Our November recommendation is offered by Ellen Armour, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Chair in Feminist Theology, Director of the Carpenter Program in Religion, Gender, and Sexuality. The U.S. may be moving...
READ THIS BOOK – October 2014
Oct. 12, 2014—Each month, we ask a member of the Vanderbilt Divinity School faculty to recommend a book they are currently reading. Our October recommendation is offered by David A. Michelson, Assistant Professor of the History of Christianity, Affiliate Faculty Member in Classics and Islamic Studies. My recommendation for this month is Saint Isaac of Nineveh, On Asetical...
READ THIS BOOK! September 2014
Sep. 14, 2014—Each month, we ask a member of the Vanderbilt Divinity School faculty to recommend a book they are currently reading. Our September recommendation is offered by Paul Lim, Associate Professor of the History of Christianity, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Affiliate Professor, Department of History. This summer past was an immensely packed season of travel—teaching...
READ THIS BOOK August 2014
Aug. 10, 2014—Each month, we ask a member of the Vanderbilt Divinity School faculty to recommend a book they are currently reading. Our August recommendation is offered by Bonnie Miller-McLemore, E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Religion, Psychology, and Culture. “Not a Snazzy Title But . . . .” Thoughts...
May 2014 READ THIS BOOK
May. 12, 2014—Each month, we ask a member of the Vanderbilt Divinity School faculty to recommend a book they are currently reading. Our May recommendation is offered by Dale P. Andrews, Distinguished Professor of Homiletics, Social Justice, and Practical Theology. I find Joseph Evans’ text, Lifting the Veil of Eurocentrism: The Du Boisian Hermeneutic of Double Consciousness, to...
Read This Book: April 2014
Apr. 13, 2014—The April book has been recommended by Emilie M. Townes, Dean of the Divinity School E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Professor of Womanist Ethics and Society Toward a Womanist Ethic of Incarnation: Black Bodies, the Black Church, and the Council of Chalcedon by Eboni Marshall Turman Palgrave Macmillan (2013) Marshall Turman is Assistant Research Professor...
Read This Book: March 2014
Mar. 9, 2014—Read This Book is a new, monthly book review/recommendation by members of the Vanderbilt Divinity School faculty. New reviews will be posted on the second Sunday of each month. Our first selection is by John McClure, Charles G. Finney Professor of Preaching and Worship. I strongly recommend my new book, co-edited with Ronald Allen and...