Alice Pope Shade Lecture: Charles Mathewes
January 28, 2010
Faith, Irony and Power: Niebuhrian Lessons for Liberal Education after the End of History
Charles Mathewes is associate professor of religious studies and principal of Brown College at the University of Virginia. He is also editor of the Journal of the American Academy of Religion. His two most recent books, both published by Cambridge University Press, are A Theology of Public Life (2008) and Evil and the Augustinian Tradition (2001). He is co-author of Prophesies of Godlessness: Predictions of America's Imminent Secularization from the Puritans to the Present Day (Oxford 2008) and co-editor of Having: Property and Possession in Religious and Social Life (Eerdmans 2004).
7:30 p.m.
Stretansky Concert Hall
The lecture is free and open to the public.
