May 16, 2008
Faith comes from hearing the message, and the message is heard through the word of Christ [Romans10:17]
The Preacher's Divine Comedy
I. The Preacher in Hell
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Peter S. Hawkins
Professor of Religion at Boston University
BA, the University of Wisconsin at Madison; M.Div. Union Theological Seminary; MA, Ph.D. Yale University. Formerly Professor of Religion and Literature at Yale Divinity School, Professor Hawkins joined the BU Department of Religion in 2000. He has received fellowships from the Andrew Mellon and Henry Luce Foundations. Professor Hawkins' work has long centered on Dante, most recently in Dante: A Brief History (2006), Dante's Testaments: Essays on Scriptural Imagination (1999)—winner of a 2001 AAR Book Prize, and The Poets' Dante: Twentieth-Century Reflections, ed. (2001). In addition to Dante: A Brief History, Professor Hawkins has two co-edited volumes forthcoming in fall 2006: Scrolls of Love: Ruth and the Song of Songs (with Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg) and St. Paul's Letters to the Romans in the Middle Ages (with William Campbell and Brenda Deen Schildgen). He has also published books on twentieth-century fiction, utopia, and the language of ineffability. His essays have dealt with such topics as memory and memorials, the NAMES Project Quilt, televangelism, and scriptural interpretation. In 2006, Boston University awarded Professor Hawkins a Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching.
BA, the University of Wisconsin at Madison; M.Div. Union Theological Seminary; MA, Ph.D. Yale University. Formerly Professor of Religion and Literature at Yale Divinity School, Professor Hawkins joined the BU Department of Religion in 2000. He has received fellowships from the Andrew Mellon and Henry Luce Foundations. Professor Hawkins' work has long centered on Dante, most recently in Dante: A Brief History (2006), Dante's Testaments: Essays on Scriptural Imagination (1999)—winner of a 2001 AAR Book Prize, and The Poets' Dante: Twentieth-Century Reflections, ed. (2001). In addition to Dante: A Brief History, Professor Hawkins has two co-edited volumes forthcoming in fall 2006: Scrolls of Love: Ruth and the Song of Songs (with Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg) and St. Paul's Letters to the Romans in the Middle Ages (with William Campbell and Brenda Deen Schildgen). He has also published books on twentieth-century fiction, utopia, and the language of ineffability. His essays have dealt with such topics as memory and memorials, the NAMES Project Quilt, televangelism, and scriptural interpretation. In 2006, Boston University awarded Professor Hawkins a Metcalf Award for Excellence in Teaching.
Recorded on Monday, Oct. 8, 2007
4:00 pm EST
Marquand Chapel
New Haven, Connecticut
4:00 pm EST
Marquand Chapel
New Haven, Connecticut
