POGOS: Patrick T. Smith on the Role of Social Justice in Intergroup Reconciliation (Logos Conference 2019)

Jonathan Rutledge
Thursday 19 December 2019

This week in Pogos we have the fourth presentation from the Logos Conference 2019 series with Professor Patrick T. Smith’s presentation called “The Role of Social Justice in Intergroup Reconciliation” followed by a response from Dr Amy Peeler. We hope you enjoy!

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Patrick T. Smith (Associate Research Professor of Theological Ethics and Bioethics & Senior Fellow at the Kenan Institute for Ethics @ Duke University) is, along with his appointment at the Divinity School, is associate faculty with the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities, and History of Medicine at Duke University School of Medicine. He has specific academic interests in the areas of bioethics, social ethics, Black Church studies, and philosophical theology. He was named a 2016-2017 Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology. His work and service in bioethics and social ethics has spanned academic, professional, community, and ecclesial spaces.

 

Amy Peeler is a Fellow with the Logos Institute, an Associate Professor of New Testament at Wheaton College, and Associate Rector at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church, Geneva, IL. Her primary research centers in the Epistle to the Hebrews, which has prompted her to explore ancient rhetoric, the use of the Old Testament in the New, Israel’s sacrificial system, atonement, family and inheritance in the Ancient World, and theological language. 

 

Jonathan C Rutledge is a producer and host of the Logos Institute’s official podcast, Pogos, as well as its blog, creatively-dubbed Blogos. He holds a Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Oklahoma, where he studied under Linda T. Zagzebski, and he holds a Ph.D. in divinity from the University of St Andrews where he studied under Alan J. Torrance. He currently serves as a research fellow at the Logos Institute, and his primary academic interests lie in the areas of epistemology, philosophy of religion, and systematic & analytic theology. His current projects include a monograph on the nature of forgiveness & a sacrificial model of atonement, philosophical Arminianism as an account of divine creation, and constructing a Foley-inspired account of epistemic rationality & defeat. His favorite pastime involves walking on the East Sands with his son, Caspian, and spouse, Bethany.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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