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 Vanderbilt University.
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 Vanderbilt 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 Vanderbilt Divinity School, Vanderbilt 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 Vanderbilt Divinity School by Sylvia Sanders Kelly of Atlanta, a
1954 Vanderbilt 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