Yale Divinity School

Reunion Gatherings • Locations TBD (Lunch provided at 12:00pm)

  • Class of ’59, 50th Reunion • ISM Great Hall

  • ’73, ’74 & ’75 Cluster, 35th Reunion • RSV Room

  • Class of ’84, 25th Reunion • Bushnell S-100

  • ’93, ’94 & ’95 Cluster, 15th Reunion • Latourette

Opening Convocation • Marquand Chapel

First Beecher Lecture:  Eugene L. Lowry

Keeping Time with the Word: The Sound of the Sermon

I. Time After Time: the three levels of narrativity

Dinner for the ’73, ’74 &’75 Cluster Reunion • Quinnipiack Club

Class of ’84 Reunion Dinner • Quinnipiack Club

Dinner for the ’93, ’94 & ’95 Cluster Reunion • Quinnipiack Club

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

Breakfast Conversation: The Impact of the Economy on Our Churches, Schools, Social Service Organizations, Families, and Selves • Neibuhr Hall

Jerry Henry ’80 M.Div., Facilitator

Worship • Marquand Chapel

Otis Moss III ’95 M.Div., preacher
Timothy R. Weisman ’07 Mus.M. ’09 M.Div., liturgist

Walking Tours of Sterling Divinity Quadrangle • Front Gate of Sterling Divinity Quadrangle

First Taylor Lecture:  Michael Welker • Niebuhr Hall

The Theology and Science Discourse on Anthropology
I. What Can Theology Contribute to the Theology and Science Discourse?

ISM Kavanagh Lecture:  Gabriele Winkler • ISM Great Hall

Some New Considerations Concerning the Relationship between the Liturgies of St.

Basil and St. James

State of the School Address by Dean Harold Attridge and Annual General Meeting of Alumni • Marquand Chapel

Second Beecher Lecture:  Eugene L. Lowry • Marquand Chapel

Keeping Time with the Word: The Sound of the Sermon
II. Encountering the Aristotle Blues: a jazz homiletic of narrative address and piano improvisation

Saturday Night & Sunday Morning • Don ’62 B.D. and Emily Saliers • Battell Chapel

An evening of music and conversation exploring their musical journeys and the crossovers

between the musical languages of Saturday night and Sunday morning. Ticket-holding Convocation registrants must arrive by 7:45 pm to claim reserved seating.

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

Alumni Leaders Breakfast with Dean Harold Attridge • Dean’s Residence

(Open to all current Alumni Board Members, Class Agents, and Class Secretaries)

Worship • Marquand Chapel

Sharon Watkins ’84 M.Div., preacher

Timothy R. Weisman ’07 Mus.M. ’09 M.Div., liturgist

Second Taylor Lecture:  Michael Welker • Niebuhr Hall

The Theology and Science Discourse on Anthropology

II. Flesh — Body — Heart — Soul — Spirit: Exploring the Depth of the Human Person

Breakout Sessions over pizza lunch

Student Panel • Nieburh Hall

30th Birthday Party for the Coalition (Yale Divinity School’s student group for LGBTQ students and their allies) • Sterling Divinity Quadrangle Tent

Conversation with Alumni Award Winners • Cancelled

Berkeley Graduate Society Reunion Banquet Luncheon • Old Refectory

BDS Pitt Lecture:  Musonda Trevor Selwyn Mwamba • Marquand Chapel

God of Wonder, Grace and Surprises

Third Beecher Lecture:  Eugene L. Lowry • Marquand Chapel

Keeping Time with the Word: The Sound of the Sermon

III. Recovering the Voice(s) of Orality

Berkeley Evensong and Awarding of Honorary Degrees • Marquand Chapel

Robert A. Willis, preacher

Thursday, October 15, 2009

Worship • Marquand Chapel

Ellen F. Davis ’84 M.A., ’87 Ph.D., preacher

Third Taylor Lecture:  Michael Welker • Niebuhr Hall

The Theology and Science Discourse on Anthropology

III. The Human Being in His/Her Relation to the Sustaining, Saving, and Ennobling God: Spiritual Realism in the Theology and Science Discourse