The 2011 Integration Symposium was held February 16 & 17, 2011.   To see the Video, please visit http://vimeo.com/album/1537339.

Please note that Dr. Hauerwas' lectures are now available through iTunes University.  

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REFLECTIONS ON GOD AND MENTAL ILLNESS  

Professor Stanley Hauerwas was the speaker of the 2011 integration symposium. 

Professor Hauerwas has sought to recover the significance of the virtues for understanding the nature of the Christian life. This search has led him to emphasize the importance of the church, as well as narrative for understanding Christian existence. 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.  

Stanley Hauerwas is the Gilbert T. Rowe Professor of Theological Ethics at the Divinity School of Duke University.  He holds a joint appointment in Duke Law School.  A graduate of Yale Divinity School (B.D. 1965) and Yale University Graduate School (M.A., M. Phil, Ph.D. 1968), Hauerwas did his undergraduate work at Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas.  He taught at Augustana College and the University of Notre Dame before he joined the faculty of Duke University in 1984.   

 Dr. Hauerwas was named "America’s Best Theologian" by Time magazine in 2001. He has delivered many lectures across the U.S. as well as overseas, and delivered the Gifford Lectures at the University of St. Andrews, Scotland in the year 2000-2001.  Though he is often identified as an ethicist, his work is more properly described as theology.  His primary intent is to show in what way theological convictions make no sense unless they are actually embodied in our lives.  To that end, his work draws on a great range of literatures -- from classical, philosophical, and theological texts to contemporary political theory.  He also works in medical ethics, issues of war and peace, and the care of the mentally handicapped.   

 His book, A Community of Character: Toward a Constructive Christian Social Ethic, was selected as one of the 100 most important books on religion of the 20th century.  He published With the Grain of the Universe: The Church's Witness and Natural Theology (Brazos, 2001), edited Dissent from the Homeland: Essays after September 11 (Duke University Press, 2003), and authored Performing the Faith: Bonhoeffer and the Practice of Nonviolence (Brazos, 2004). Dr. Hauerwas also authored Matthew: Brazos Theological Commentary on the Bible, (Grand Rapids: Brazos Press, 2006) and The State of the University: Academic Knowledges and the Knowledge of God, (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2007). 

• Lecture 1 - Wednesday, Feb 16, 10am - 12pm (Travis Auditorium/ Payton 101 overflow)
  • Mental Illness: My Story 
    • The first lecture told the story of Dr. Hauerwas' marriage to someone suffering from bi-polar illness.  In particular, he focused on the suffering and pain the illness entails for the one so affected. 
     
   

• Lecture 2 - Wednesday, Feb 16, 7 - 9pm (First United Methodist Church of Pasadena)
  • Enduring: How To Go On  
    • The second lecture focused on the person who lives with a mentally ill individual.  The lecture addressed the loneliness mental illness creates, a loneliness made even more poignant by the destruction of our language that occurs in the face of mental illness. 
     
   

• Lecture 3 - Thursday, Feb 17, 7 - 9pm (First United Methodist Church of Pasadena)
  • God and the Mentally Ill
    • The final lecture was built on the previous presentations and explored the theological challenge mental illness presents.  Given the inadequacy of our current language for mental illness, what language is faithful to the experience of the ill person and faithful to the theological heritage of the Christian community? 
     
   

The Integration Symposium took place in Travis Auditorium and the First United Methodist Church of Pasadena. 

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