Kavanagh Lectureship
The Kavanagh Lecture, presented by the Yale Institute of Sacred Music, is named for the late Professor Emeritus of Liturgics Aidan J. Kavanagh O.S.B., and given in conjunction with Convocation Week at YDS.
2023
Juliette J. Day, Lecturer in Church History, Helsinki University. Hearing Our Prayers: Audition and Its Rituals in Christian Worship, Yale Divinity School, October 12, 2023.
2022
Harald Buchinger, Professor of Liturgical Studies at the University of Regensburg9 Germany), Dramatic Liturgy and Its Media Between East and West, Yale Divinity School, October 13, 2022.
2017
Edward Foley, Duns Scotus Professor of Spirituality and Professor of Liturgy and Music, Catholic Theological Union. Preaching in an Age of Disaffiliation: Respecting Dissent while Keeping the Faith, Yale Divinity School, October 19, 2017.
Published as: “Preaching in an Age of Disaffiliation: Respecting Dissent while Keeping the Faith,” in Liturgy with a Difference: Beyond Inclusion in the Christian Assembly, edited by Stephen Burns and Bryan Cones (London: SCM Press, 2019).
2014
Gordon Lathrop, Professor of Liturgy Emeritus, Lutheran Theological Seminary at Philadelphia. Saving Images: New Testament Metaphors and the Purposes of Christian Worship, Yale Divinity School, October 23, 2014.
Published as: “Saving Images: the New Testament and the Purposes of Christian Worship,” in Saving Images: the Presence of the Bible in Christian Liturgy. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress Press, 2017.
2012
John D. Witvliet, Director of the Calvin Institute of Christian Worship and Professor of Worship, Theology, and Congregational and Ministry Studies, Calvin College and Calvin Theological Seminary. The Biblical Psalms in Christian Worship: Overlapping Scripts in the Unfolding Drama of Liturgical Performance, Yale Divinity School, October 25, 2012.
2011
Don Saliers, William R. Cannon Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Theology and Worship at Candler School of Theology, Emory University. When Language Fails: Liturgy in a Time of Excess, Yale Divinity School, October 11, 2011.
2009
Gabriele Winkler, Language and liturgical expert and former Chair for Liturgical Science, University of Tübingen (Germany). Some New Considerations Concerning the Relationship between the Liturgies of St. Basil and St. James, Yale Divinity School, October 13, 2009.
Published as: “Preliminary observations about the relationship between the liturgies of St. Basil and St. James.” Orientalia christiana periodica 76, no. 1 (2010): 5-55.
2008
Robert F. Taft, Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Anaphorae Orientales. Mrs. Murphy Goes to Moscow: Kavanagh, Schmemmann, and the ‘Byzantine Synthesis’, Yale Divinity School, October 14, 2008.
2007
Nathan D. Mitchell, Associate Director for Research and Publications, University of Notre Dame’s Center for Liturgy. From Text to Tablature: Reimagining Liturgical Language Today, Yale Divinity School, October 9, 2007.
2006
Maxwell E. Johnson, Professor of Liturgy, University of Notre Dame. Is the Liturgical Year the Fifth Gospel?: Bible and Liturgy in Relationship, Yale Divinity School, October 10, 2006.
2005
Janet R. Walton, Professor of Worship, Union Theological Seminary. Ritual Action – Global Action, Yale Divinity School, October 2005.
2002
Paul F. Bradshaw, Professor of Liturgy, University of Notre Dame. Liturgy in the Absence of Hippolytus, Yale Divinity School, October 10, 2002.
2001
James Baldovin, Professor of Historical and Liturgical Theology, Weston Jesuit School of Theology (Boston College). Lo, the Full Final Sacrifice: On the Seriousness of Christian Liturgy, Yale Divinity School, October 2, 2001.