Invitation to an inauguration

  • The Theology Faculty of the University of Heidelberg and the Heidelberg Center for American Studies cordially offer an open invitation to the inaugural lecture of the Jonathan Edwards Center Germany:

    Peter J. Thuesen
    Professor of Religious Studies
    Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
    “Jonathan Edwards and the Transatlantic World of Books”

    On: Wednesday, 11 July, 2012, 18:15
    At: The Atrium of the Heidelberg Center for American Studies
    Curt and Heidemarie Engelhorn Palais
    Hauptstraße 120
    69117 Heidelberg

    To be followed by a reception.

    A symposium will be held the next day, on Thursday, 12 July, on “New Avenues in Jonathan Edwards Studies and Eighteenth-Century Religious History,” in the Stucco at the Heidelberg Center for American Studies.

    The full schedule:

    Wednesday, 11 July
    18:15-18:45
    Welcome
    18:45-19:15
    Kenneth P. Minkema (Yale Divinity School) and Jan Stievermann (Universität Heidelberg)
    “What is the Jonathan Edwards Center?”

    19:15-20:15
    Peter J. Thuessen (Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis)
    “Jonathan Edwards and the Transatlantic World of Books”

    Thursday, 12 July
    Symposium
    “New Avenues in Jonathan Edwards Studies and Eighteenth-Century Religious History”

    9:30-10:30
    Hermann Wellenreuther (Universität Göttingen)
    “Is Religion Affected by Atlantic Transfers in the Early Modern Period?”

    11:00-12:00
    Andreas Beck (Evangelische Theologische Fakulteit, Leuven)
    “Jonathan Edwards and Reformed Orthodoxy on Free Will and Determinism”

    12:00-14:00
    Lunch Break

    14:00-15:00
    Sarah Rivett (Princeton University)
    “Savage Sounds: Indigenous Words and Missionary Linguistics in New Light Theology”

    15:30-16:30
    Reiner Smolinski (Georgia State University)
    “Cotton Mather and Jonathan Edwards and the Challenge of Philosophical Materialism”

    17:00-18:00
    Round Table
    “New Projects and Archives in Eighteenth-Century Religious History”

    To register for the lecture or the symposium, call the HCA at 06221/54-3710 or e-mail dsilliman@hca.uni-heidelberg.de by 1 July.

    • Posted by: Daniel Silliman on 27th Mar, 2012. Posted under: Uncategorized