A Conversation Between Dr. Farr Curlin and Dr. Stanley Hauerwas

Please join us at Wilson Library on January 27th for an interdisciplinary conversation between Dr. Farr Curlin and Dr. Stanley Hauerwas focused on the question: Why are Americans so afraid of death?

Dr. Stanley Hauerwas is a theological ethicist and the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor Emeritus of Divinity and Law at Duke University. He is a leading voice for the recovery of the significance of the virtues for understanding the nature of the Christian life. His work cuts across disciplinary lines as he is in conversation with systematic theology, philosophical theology and ethics, political theory, as well as the philosophy of social science and medical ethics. He was named "America’s Best Theologian" by Time magazine in 2001 and has previously delivered the prestigious Gifford Lectureship at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland.

Dr. Farr Curlin (UNC graduate, B.A. & M.D.) is a hospice and palliative care physician and the Josiah C. Trent Professor of Medical Humanities at Duke University. He holds joint appointments in the School of Medicine, including its Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine, and in Duke Divinity School, including its Initiative on Theology, Medicine and Culture.

This event is part of the ‘Christianity in Conversation Series’ cohosted by the North Carolina Study Center and InterVarsity Graduate and Faculty Ministries. This series features faculty guest speakers whose scholarship is relevant in some form or fashion to Christian intellectual life.

Past series speakers include Dr. Chris Clemens and Dr. Molly Worthen.