Provost's Guest Lecturer: Stan Rosenberg
February 16, 2015: 7:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Address: "Augustine’s Confessions and Christian Spirituality."
Dr. Rosenberg is the Director of Scholarship and Christianity In Oxford (SCIO), a program of the Council of Christian Colleges and Universities (CCCU), of which Union is a member. Stan is a member of the University of Oxford's Theology and Religion faculty where he teaches early Christian History and Doctrine. He also co-directs a Templeton research project on science and religion, is a senior academic member on Wycliffe Hall’s current research projects, and is on the advisory board of the Green Scholars Initiative, a project on ancient texts. He chairs the International Education Committee of the National Collegiate Honors Council and is currently co-editing a volume for its monograph series entitled, Seeking the Soul of Excellence: Exploring Spirituality in Honors Education.
His research and teaching interests focus on Augustine’s works (the sermons in particular), early Christian cosmology, Greco-Roman science, culture and philosophy, and the interplay between intellectual and popular thought during this period. A dual national of the UK and USA, he has lived in Oxford for 13 years with his wife and two children.