Speakers will give a public talk broadly defined under the banner of "What Kind of Baptist?: The Importance of Public Witness in a Secular Age."

 

3:30 p.m. | Reception - Lower Auditorium 

5 p.m. |  Lecture - Davis Chapel

 

Elizabeth “Beth” Newman teaches in The Baptist House of Studies, Union Presbyterian Seminary, Richmond, VA, and is adjunct professor of theology at Duke University Divinity School. Previously she was a professor at Saint Mary’s College, Notre Dame, Indiana and at the Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond, VA. She is the author of Untamed Hospitality: Welcoming God and Other Strangers (2007); Attending the Wounds on Christ’s Body: Teresa’s Scriptural Vision (2012); and Divine Abundance: Leisure, the Basis of Academic Culture (2018). She currently serves as Chair of the Baptist World Alliance Commission on Baptist Doctrine and Christian Unity and as Co-Chair of the Baptist World Alliance Delegation for Theological Conversations with the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity.