NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Works by women writers offer a significant resource
to those searching for the connection between intellectual work and
practical spiritual practice, says a Harvard theologian who will speak
at ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´.
Stephanie Paulsell, associate dean for ministry studies at Harvard
Divinity School, will deliver the 2005 Antoinette Brown Lecture at 7
p.m. on Thursday, March 17, in Benton Chapel on the ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ campus.
The lecture, “Scriptio divina: Women, Writing and God,” is free and
open to the public. It is sponsored by the Office of Women‘s Concerns
at ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ Divinity School, ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ women‘s and gender studies,
the Margaret Cuninggim Women‘s Center and the University Lectures
Committee.
Paulsell is the author of Honoring the Body: Meditations on a Christian Practice and co-editor of The Scope of Our Art: The Vocation of the Theological Teacher. She is an ordained minister in the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
Paulsell is the 31st speaker in the Antoinette Brown Lecture Series, a
student-run event that brings a distinguished female theologian and/or
church leader to campus each year. The series began in 1974 with a gift
to ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ Divinity School by Sylvia Sanders Kelly of Atlanta, a
1954 ÐÓ°ÉÔ´´ graduate. It is named for Antoinette Brown Blackwell,
an abolitionist and feminist who became the first woman ordained to the
Christian ministry in the United States in 1853.
Media contact: Jim Patterson, (615) 322-NEWS
jim.patterson@vanderbilt.edu