Roland Bainton Lectureship

The Roland Bainton Lectureship, inaugurated in 1988, represents the two foci of Professor Bainton’s life and work: church history and the church’s witness to peace and justice. Check the Yale Divinity Library Audio-Visual collections for lectures available online.

2024

Christoph Markschies, Professor of Ancient Christianity, Humboldt University (Berlin), Apocalyptic Time: Time in (Ancient Christian) Apocalyptic Literature, Yale Divinity School, March 4, 2024.

2021

Emmanuel Katongole, Professor of Theology and Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame. A Different Fulcrum: Doing Theology at Bethany, Yale Divinity School, October 14, 2021.

2019

Teresa Morgan, Professor of Graeco-Roman History, Oxford University. Travels in the Interior: The Evolution of Fides Qua, Yale Divinity School, September 16, 2019.

2019

David Saperstein, former United States Ambassador-at-Large for International Religious Freedom. Being the Hands of God: Religious Social Justice at a Time of Crisis and Opportunity, Yale Divinity School, February 28, 2019.

2008

John Van Engen, University of Notre Dame, Free Spirits, Harassed Beguines, and Arrogant Clerics: A New Look at Religious Communities in the Early Fourteenth-Century Low Countries, Yale Divinity School, January 27, 2008.

2004

Andrew F. Walls, Founder and Director Emeritus of the Center for the Study of Christianity in the Non-Western World, Aberdeen University. The Vernacular Principle in Christian History, Yale Divinity School, November 16, 2004.

2004

H.C. Erik Midelfort, Professor of History, University of Virginia. The Reformation and the Early Social Sciences: Marx, Durkheim, Weber and Freud, Yale Divinity School, April 1, 2004.

Published as: “The Reformation and the Early Social Sciences: Marx, Durkheim, Weber and Freud,” in Politics and Reformations: Histories and Reformations: Essays in Honor of Thomas A. Brady, Jr., edited by Christopher Ocker et al. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2007.

2001

Lamin Sanneh, D. Willis James Professor of World Christianity and History, Yale Divinity School. Antislavery for the Love of God: New Haven and the Campaign for Africa, Yale Divinity School, October 1, 2001.

2000

Barbara J. Newman, Professor of English and Religion, Northwestern University. Seeing, Imagining, Believing: Adventures in Visionary Theology, Yale Divinity School, October 10, 2000.

1998

Frank M. Turner, John Hay Whitney Professor of History, Yale University. John Henry Newman, E.B. Pusey, and the Commerce of Religion in the Oxford Movement, Yale Divinity School, October 12, 1998.

1997

Albert Raboteau, Henry W. Putman Professor of Religion, Princeton University. In Search of Common Ground: Howard Thurman and Religious Community, Yale Divinity School, October 16, 1997.

Published as: “In Search of Common Ground: Howard Thurman and Religious Community,” in Meaning and Modernity: Religion, Polity, and Self, edited by Richard Madsen, et al. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002.

1995

Margaret R. Miles, Bussey Professor of Theology, Harvard Divinity School. Human Community and Responsibility: Living Beings and Rational Minds in Augustine's Debate with Manicheans/Love's Body, Intentions, and Effects: Augustine's Homilies on The First Epistle of John, Yale Divinity School, October 10, 1995.

Published as: “Love’s Body, Intentions, and Effects: Augustine’s Homilies on the First Epistle of John,” Sewanee Theological Review 41, no. 1 (Christmas 1997): 19-33.

1995

Robert Bellah, Ford Professor of Sociology, University of California at Berkeley. Religious Pluralism and Religious Truth, Yale Divinity School, February 7, 1995.

Published as: “Religious Pluralism and Religious Truth,” in The Robert Bellah Reader, edited by Robert Bellah and Steven Tipton. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2006.

1993

E. Glenn Hinson, Professor of Church History, Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond. Inclusiveness in Teaching and Writing Church History: The Case of Marcella, Yale Divinity School, November 3, 1993.

1991

Clarissa W. Atkinson, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, Harvard Divinity School. The Modesty of the Elephant: Marriage, Families, and Holiness in the 16^th Century, Yale Divinity School, February 5, 1991.

1990

James Melvin Washington, Professor of Church History, Union Theological Seminary. The Crisis of Christian Conscience at the Nadir of the 20^th Century, Yale Divinity School, February 13, 1990.

1989

Donald G. Mathews, Professor of History, University of North Carolina. One Nation Under God, Indivisible, Yale Divinity School, February 15, 1989.

1988

Eric W. Gritsch, Professor of Church History and Reformation Studies, Gettysburg Seminary. Give Peace a Chance: An Appraisal of Roland H. Bainton, Yale Divinity School, February 16, 1988.