Woolsey Lectures Features Theologian Ellen Charry

HOUGHTON, N.Y. —The Woolsey Lectures in Theology and Culture at Houghton College features Ellen Charry as guest lecturer on Nov. 6-7.

Charry is Princeton Theological Seminary’s Margaret W. Harmon Associate Professor of Systematic Theology and serves as an editor-at-large for The Christian Century. Previously she was editor of Theology Today and the Allan Richardson Fellow at Durham University in 2006.

Currently Charry is working on an interdisciplinary project on “The Pursuit of Happiness: Scientific, Theological and Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Love of God, Neighbor, and Self,” at Emory University, under a grant from the John Templeton Foundation. She has written two books: “By the Renewing of Your Minds: The Pastoral Function of Christian Doctrine” and “Inquiring After God: Classical and Contemporary Readings.”

Charry will speak on “When Christians Speak of Happiness” at 7:30 p.m. on Nov. 6 in Wesley Chapel. Her second lecture, “When Happiness and Goodness Embrace,” will be at 11 a.m. in Wesley Chapel on Nov. 7. 

The Woolsey Lectures in Theology and Culture is named for Warren Woolsey, professor emeritus of New Testament and missions at Houghton College. This lecture series is funded by the Margaret Hayes Randall Endowment.

The Woolsey Lectures are free and open to the public. For more information contact Laura Wardwell at 585.567.9460.