Professor Kathryn Tanner - Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism Professor Kathryn Tanner is Marquand Professor of Systematic Theology, at Yale Divinity School. Event Details Dates: 2, 3, 5, 9, 10 and 12 May 2016 Time: 5.30pm to 6.30pm The lecture may be followed by questions. Latest finishing time is 7pm. Venue: Multiple venues. Please see the series summary below. Tickets are free of charge and available here Series summary The current configuration of capitalism, in which finance plays a dominant role, has the capacity to shape people in ways that hinder the development of any critical perspective on it. This series of lectures will explore the various cultural forms of finance-dominated capitalism and suggest how their pervasive force in human life might be countered by Christian beliefs and practices with a comparable person-shaping capacity. In this way, these lectures reverse the project of the German sociologist Max Weber in his Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, while employing much the same methods as he used. Weber showed how Christian beliefs and practices could form persons in line with what capitalism required of them. These lectures will demonstrate the capacity of Christian beliefs and practices to help people resist the dictates of capitalism in its present, finance-dominated configuration. Lecture 1 - Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism: An Introduction Monday 2 May 2016, 17:30 to 18:30 Business School Auditorium, 29 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9JS Tickets are free of charge and available here Lecture 2 - Chained to the Past Tuesday 3 May 2016, 17:30 to 18:30 *Please note this lecture will be held in the George Square Lecture Theatre, George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LK Tickets are free of charge and available here Lecture 3 - Total Commitment Thursday 5 May 2016, 17:30 to 18:30 Business School Auditorium, 29 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9JS Tickets are free of charge and available here Lecture 4 - Nothing but the Present Monday 9 May 2016, 17:30 to 18:30 Business School Auditorium, 29 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9JS Tickets are free of charge and available here Lecture 5 - Another World? Tuesday 10 May 2016, 17:30 to 18:30 Business School Auditorium, 29 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9JS Tickets are free of charge and available here Lecture 6 - Which World? Thursday 12 May 2016, 17:30 to 18:30 Business School Auditorium, 29 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9JS Tickets are free of charge and available here Comment on Professor Tanner's series on our blog Series videos The lecture will be recorded and links will be posted in the respective pages of each lecture. Biography Kathryn Tanner joined the Yale Divinity School faculty in 2010 after teaching at the University of Chicago Divinity School for sixteen years and in Yale’s Department of Religious Studies for ten. Her research relates the history of Christian thought to contemporary issues of theological concern using social, cultural, and feminist theory. She is the author of God and Creation in Christian Theology: Tyranny or Empowerment? (Blackwell, 1988); The Politics of God: Christian Theologies and Social Justice (Fortress, 1992); Theories of Culture: A New Agenda for Theology (Fortress, 1997); Jesus, Humanity and the Trinity: A Brief Systematic Theology (Fortress, 2001); Economy of Grace (Fortress, 2005); Christ the Key (Cambridge, 2010); and scores of scholarly articles and chapters in books that include The Oxford Handbook of Systematic Theology, which she edited with John Webster and Iain Torrance. Professor Tanner serves on the editorial boards of Modern Theology, International Journal of Systematic Theology, and Scottish Journal of Theology, and is a former coeditor of the Journal of Religion. Active in many professional societies, Professor Tanner is a past president of the American Theological Society, the oldest theological society in the United States. For eight years she has been a member of the Theology Committee that advises the Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops. In the academic year 2010-2011, she had a Luce Fellowship to research financial markets and the critical perspectives that Christian theology can bring to bear on them. May 02 2016 17.30 - May 12 2016 18.30 Professor Kathryn Tanner - Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism 2nd - 12th MAY 2016 - Professor Kathryn Tanner's Gifford Lecture Series is made up of six lectures under the series title 'Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism'. Multiple Venues
Professor Kathryn Tanner - Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism Professor Kathryn Tanner is Marquand Professor of Systematic Theology, at Yale Divinity School. Event Details Dates: 2, 3, 5, 9, 10 and 12 May 2016 Time: 5.30pm to 6.30pm The lecture may be followed by questions. Latest finishing time is 7pm. Venue: Multiple venues. Please see the series summary below. Tickets are free of charge and available here Series summary The current configuration of capitalism, in which finance plays a dominant role, has the capacity to shape people in ways that hinder the development of any critical perspective on it. This series of lectures will explore the various cultural forms of finance-dominated capitalism and suggest how their pervasive force in human life might be countered by Christian beliefs and practices with a comparable person-shaping capacity. In this way, these lectures reverse the project of the German sociologist Max Weber in his Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, while employing much the same methods as he used. Weber showed how Christian beliefs and practices could form persons in line with what capitalism required of them. These lectures will demonstrate the capacity of Christian beliefs and practices to help people resist the dictates of capitalism in its present, finance-dominated configuration. Lecture 1 - Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism: An Introduction Monday 2 May 2016, 17:30 to 18:30 Business School Auditorium, 29 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9JS Tickets are free of charge and available here Lecture 2 - Chained to the Past Tuesday 3 May 2016, 17:30 to 18:30 *Please note this lecture will be held in the George Square Lecture Theatre, George Square, Edinburgh, EH8 9LK Tickets are free of charge and available here Lecture 3 - Total Commitment Thursday 5 May 2016, 17:30 to 18:30 Business School Auditorium, 29 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9JS Tickets are free of charge and available here Lecture 4 - Nothing but the Present Monday 9 May 2016, 17:30 to 18:30 Business School Auditorium, 29 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9JS Tickets are free of charge and available here Lecture 5 - Another World? Tuesday 10 May 2016, 17:30 to 18:30 Business School Auditorium, 29 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9JS Tickets are free of charge and available here Lecture 6 - Which World? Thursday 12 May 2016, 17:30 to 18:30 Business School Auditorium, 29 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh, EH8 9JS Tickets are free of charge and available here Comment on Professor Tanner's series on our blog Series videos The lecture will be recorded and links will be posted in the respective pages of each lecture. Biography Kathryn Tanner joined the Yale Divinity School faculty in 2010 after teaching at the University of Chicago Divinity School for sixteen years and in Yale’s Department of Religious Studies for ten. Her research relates the history of Christian thought to contemporary issues of theological concern using social, cultural, and feminist theory. She is the author of God and Creation in Christian Theology: Tyranny or Empowerment? (Blackwell, 1988); The Politics of God: Christian Theologies and Social Justice (Fortress, 1992); Theories of Culture: A New Agenda for Theology (Fortress, 1997); Jesus, Humanity and the Trinity: A Brief Systematic Theology (Fortress, 2001); Economy of Grace (Fortress, 2005); Christ the Key (Cambridge, 2010); and scores of scholarly articles and chapters in books that include The Oxford Handbook of Systematic Theology, which she edited with John Webster and Iain Torrance. Professor Tanner serves on the editorial boards of Modern Theology, International Journal of Systematic Theology, and Scottish Journal of Theology, and is a former coeditor of the Journal of Religion. Active in many professional societies, Professor Tanner is a past president of the American Theological Society, the oldest theological society in the United States. For eight years she has been a member of the Theology Committee that advises the Episcopal Church’s House of Bishops. In the academic year 2010-2011, she had a Luce Fellowship to research financial markets and the critical perspectives that Christian theology can bring to bear on them. May 02 2016 17.30 - May 12 2016 18.30 Professor Kathryn Tanner - Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism 2nd - 12th MAY 2016 - Professor Kathryn Tanner's Gifford Lecture Series is made up of six lectures under the series title 'Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism'. Multiple Venues
May 02 2016 17.30 - May 12 2016 18.30 Professor Kathryn Tanner - Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism 2nd - 12th MAY 2016 - Professor Kathryn Tanner's Gifford Lecture Series is made up of six lectures under the series title 'Christianity and the New Spirit of Capitalism'.
