ROBINSON WRITING FELLOWS ANNOUNCED
4/19/2010
The Center wishes to congratulate the twelve successful applicants for its summer workshop, Writing Theology with Marilynne Robinson. As CTI Writing Fellows, they will participate in this intensive, three-week workshop with Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Marilynne Robinson. Ms. Robinson writes of her hopes for the workshop. “We will consider the impulse to think and write theologically, always in light of the intrinsic and profound significance of theology to the life of faith and the world of thought.”
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Katie Geneva Cannon, Ph.D., Annie Scales Rogers Professor of Christian Social Ethics,
Union Theological Seminary-Presbyterian School of Christian Education, Richmond, Virginia
John W. Coakley, Th.D., Professor of Church History, New Brunswick Theological Seminary, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Mark Salem Gignilliat, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Divinity, Beeson Divinity School, Samford University, Birmingham, Alabama
Michael F. Hull, S.T.D., Professor of Sacred Scripture, St. Joseph’s Seminary, Yonkers, New York
William Stacy Johnson, Ph.D., Arthur M. Adams Professor of Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary, Princeton, New Jersey
Rodrigo J. Morales, Ph.D., Assistant Professor, Department of Theology, Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Margaret Sinclair Odell, Ph.D., Professor of Religion, St. Olaf College, Northfield, Minnesota
Barbara R. Rossing, Th.D., Professor of New Testament, Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Matthew L. Skinner, Ph.D., Associate Professor of New Testament, Luther Seminary, St. Paul, Minnesota
Janet Martin Soskice, D. Phil., Professor of Philosophical Theology, University of Cambridge, England
Heather Walton, Ph.D., Head of Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Glasgow, Scotland
James A. Wiseman, O.S.B., S.T.D., Ordinary Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, The Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
Ms. Robinson's aim is to help scholars in the academy write theology with clarity for wider readerships.
“Theology has been the mediator of the primary literature of faith since antiquity. The writers of the psalms, the prophets, the Apostle Paul all interpret core belief--that God is One, the Creator of heaven and earth, and that he has made humankind in his image. Augustine, Chrysostom, Aquinas, Luther and Calvin each gave intellectual, social and artistic form to modes of Christian life which without them are hardly to be imagined. Lately the practice of this ancient tradition has receded into the academy and learned the idiom of specialization, leaving religion increasingly vulnerable to the charge, and the fact, of vacuousness. We will consider the impulse to think and write theologically, always in light of the intrinsic and profound significance of theology to the life of faith and the world of thought.” - Marilynne Robinson
The Center of Theological Inquiry is honored that Marilynne Robinson, one of its distinguished Senior Members, has agreed to lead its first writing workshop for theologians in the academy. Widely acclaimed for her novels, Housekeeping (PEN/Hemmingway Award winner), Gilead (winner of the Pulitzer Prize), and Home (winner of the Orange Prize), and a faculty member at the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, she is also a lay theologian and public thinker who writes on religion and society, including The Death of Adam: Essays on Modern Thought. In this intensive workshop she will draw on her love of theology and wisdom as a teacher to help scholars in the academy who have "learned the idiom of specialization" to write theologically for "the life of faith and the world of thought."