Lectureships
The Seminary has a series of lectureships provided for students and the local community. Lecturers in recent years include such notable speakers as Wendell Berry, Nancy Eisland and Rabbi Yitz Greenberg.
The Cobb Lectures, March 27-28
Dr. Kwok Pui-Lan
William F. Cole Professor of Christian Theology and Spirituality
Episcopal Divinity School, Cambridge, Mass.
Thursday - Friday, March 27 - 28,
11:30 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
LTS Fellowship Hall
Refreshments will be served.
Dr. Kwok Pui Lan is the William F. Cole Professor of Christian Theology and Spirituality at the Episcopal Divinity School in Cambridge, MA. She will deliver the 2008 William Daniel Cobb Lectures at Lexington Theological Seminary at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday and Friday, March 27 and 28.
On Thursday, her topic will be “Globalization and the Challenge to Christianity” and on Friday, she will address “America, Empire, and Prophetic Christianity.”
Dr. Kwok Pui Lan is an internationally known theologian who has published extensively in Asian feminist theology, biblical interpretation, and postcolonial criticism. Her publications include Postcolonial Imagination and Feminist Theology (2005), Introducing Asian Feminist Theology (2000); and Discovering the Bible in the Non-Biblical World (1995). She is the coeditor of two groundbreaking volumes Empire and the Christian Tradition: New Readings of Classical Theologians (2007), and Off the Menu: Asian and Asian North American Women’s Religion and Theology (2007).
The current established lectureships are:
William Daniel Cobb Lectures
The William Daniel Cobb, III Lectures were established as a memorial to their namesake who died February 24, 1987, only months after becoming president of Lexington Theological Seminary. Dr. Cobb set the endowment of several quality lectureships as one of his goals for the Seminary. The Cobb Lectures allow the Seminary annually to bring to campus a noted speaker in one of the disciplines of theological study.
Franklin B. Moosnick Lectures on Jewish-Christian Relations
Smith Lectures on Preaching