2013 Wiley Lectures

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“Who’s Afraid of Relavitism?  Embracing the Contingency of Creaturehood”

 

Lecture 1:  “It Depends: Creation, Contingency, and the Specter of Relativism”

  • Monday, February 11, 2013, 1:30 p.m. - 2:20 p.m.
  • Location:  Crill Performance Hall

Lecture 2:  “Context is Everything: Wittgenstein on Meaning as Use”

  • Tuesday, February 12, 2013, 9:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. 
  • Location:  Crill Performance Hall

Lecture 3:  “Learning How to Use The World: Augustine the ‘Relativist’”

  • Tuesday, February 12, 2013, 1:30 p.m. - 2:20 p.m.
  • Location:  Crill Performance Hall

Brewed Awakening Conversation: “God of the Market, God of the Nation-State: Cultural Exegesis of Secular Liturgies”

Guest Chapel Speaker:  Dr. James K. A. Smith

  • Wednesday, February 13, 2013 9:45 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.
  • Location:  Brown Chapel

Lecture 4:  “Who’s Afraid of Contingency?  Owning Up To Our Creaturehood with Rorty”

  • Wednesday, February 13, 2013, 11:00 a.m. - 11:50 a.m.
  • Location:  Crill Performance Hall

 

This concludes the Spring 2013 H. Orton Wiley Lecture Series in Theology. 

The public is welcome.  All events are free, and located on the main PLNU campus located at,  

3900 Lomaland Drive, San Diego, CA. 

Please direct any question to: MAReligion@pointloma.edu or call: (619) 849-2234.

Dr. James K.A. Smith is professor of philosophy at Calvin College where he holds the Byker Chair in Appied Reformed Theology and Worldview.

A specialist in continental philosophy and philosophical theology, Dr. Smith’s work is multidisciplinary – a kind of theologically-informed cultural criticism that is just as concerned with politics and science as worship and discipleship.  Reflective of this, he is a fellow of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship and serves as a Senior Fellow of The Colossian Forum on Faith, Science, and Culture. 

Jamie is an award-winning author whose books include Who’s Afraid of Postmodernism? Taking Derrida, Lyodtard, and Foucault to Church (Baker Academic, 2006), Thinking in Tongues: Pentecostal Contributions to Christian Philosophy (Erdmans, 2010), Desiring the Kingdom: Worship, Worldview, and Cultural Formation (Baker Academic, 2009-winner of the Christianity Today Book Award). His new book, Imagining the Kingdom: How Worship Works appeared in January 2013.

He and his wife, Deanna, have 4 children and are committed urban dwellers who make their home in the Heritage Hill neighborhood of Grand Rapids, MI.

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