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    PAST  LECTURES



11 JANUARY  2003
Dickinson School of Law -  Dr. Bruce Hindmarsh,
"I am a sort of Middle-man: The Generous Evangelicalism of John Newton (1725-1807)."
To learn more go to Dedicatory Lecture & Reception.



31 JANUARY  - 2 FEBRUARY 2003

Dickinson Christian Fellowship Retreat
Dr. John J. Bombaro,  "Who was Jesus?"



22
APRIL 2003
Dickinson College
The Revd. Leon Blosser,
"What is Man...?"
(Lecture published in The Banner of Truth magazine, July 2003.)





19 SEPTEMBER 2003 
Dickinson College
Dr. Philip G. Ryken, "Is Jesus the Only Way?"




2 OCTOBER 2003
Dickinson College
Dr. Ted Davis, "Reading God's Two Books: The Harmony of Nature
and Scripture in Nineteenth-Century American Thought,"



31 OCTOBER 2003
Dickinson College 
Jonathan D. Olsen, "Being a Disciple of Jesus Christ."    
                               


20 NOVEMBER 2003
Dickinson College       
Dr. Anees Zaka, founder and director of Church Without Walls and founder
and president of the Biblical Institute for Islamic Studies, both in Philadelphia.

"Worldviews in Conflict: Islam and Christianity."



6 February 2004

Dickinson College
Prof. Phillip Cary, "Christ the Wisdom of God: Toward a Christian Philosophy of Life."



25 February 2004
Dickinson College
Prof. Robert P. George, "Freedom, Reason, and the Rule of Law."
(Lecture Published in The Clarion Review)




10 March 2004

Dickinson College
Prof. Stephen N. Dunning, "Religion and Violence"



2 April 2004
Dickinson School of law
Rebecca Rees Dummermuth
(Associate Director for Legal Affairs White House Office of Faith-Based and Community Initiatives)
"Promoting Results, Protecting Religious Liberty: The President's Faith-Based and Community Initiative"
 



12 April 2004
Dickinson School of Law
Prof. David A. Skeel, Jr., "Law and Literature"


16 April 2004
Dickinson College
Dr. R. Bryan Bademan (Univ. of Notre Dame and Princeton University)
"Contesting the Evangelical Age: Nineteenth-Century Protestants Challenge
the American Way of Religion"


17 September 2004
Dickinson College, The First Annual Philip N. Lockhart Lecture
Dr. Philip Jenkins
Distinguished Professor of History and Religious Studies, The Pennsylvania State University.

"The Future of Global Christianity"


1 October 2004
Dickinson College
Creston Davis, Ph.D. candidate (Univ. of Virginia)
"Seeking the Spirit of Truth in the Ghostly Existence of
the 'Real': The Christian Faith IN the Virtual"



29 October 2004

Dickinson College
Apologist, Mark Potter,

"What is the Meaning of Sex?"


9 November 2004
Messiah College
Dr. Darryl G. Hart,
"Fickle Allies: American Protestants and the
Defense of the West"


19 November 2004
Dickinson College
Dr. Gene Edward Veith, Director of the Cranach Institute
"The Doctrine of Vocation: Your Work, Your Family, and Your Citizenship as Callings from God."



7 March 2005
Dickinson College
Dr. Martin Erdmann, Senior Scientist, Universitatsspital Basel Assistant Professor of Biblical Studies, Patrick Henry College, Director, Verax Institute
"The Ultimate Implantable Device: Human Enhancement Technologies Powered by Nanotechnology? A Recent Philosophical-Technological-Medical Debate."



7 April 2005
Dickinson College
Hon. Thomas E. Martin, Jr., Magisterial District Judge

"Christian Participation in Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade"



29 April 2005
Dickinson College
Dr. Friedhelm Radandt, president Emeritus of The King's College and former President of Northwestern College.
"Where Tolerance and Ethics Meet"



13 September 2005
Dickinson College
Dr. Dennis P. Hollinger,
President and Professor of Christian Ethics at Evangelical Theological Seminary.
"World View & Ethics: A Case for Christianity"




4 October 2005
Dickinson College
Dr. Os Guinness - Author of some thirty books and international speaker
"
Unspeakable - facing up to evil in an age of genocide & terror"

 


25 October 2005
Dickinson College

Dr. David Wells -
Professor of  Theology at Gordon-Conwell Seminary
"
Spiritual, but not Religious"



14 November 2005
The John Newton Center
Dr. Terry Mortenson - Author, international speaker and
history of science scholar

"
The Origin of Old-Earth Geology in the 19th Century"




18 November 2005
Dickinson College
Dr. Mark Chavalas - Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin
"Babel and Bible: A Century of Tension



7
February 2006
Dickinson College

Dr. Leland Ryken - Author of Reader's Guide Through the Wardrobe: Exploring C. S. Lewis' Classic Story
"Words of Delight - The Bible as Literature & literary Influence"



8 February 2006
The John Newton Center
Dr. Leland Ryken - Author of Reader's Guide Through the Wardrobe: Exploring C. S. Lewis' Classic Story
"In Search of a Christian Work Ethic"


21 March 2006
Penn State Dickinson School of Law

Hon. Thomas E. Martin
- Magisterial District Judge, cum laude
Dickinson College and Dickinson School of Law graduate.
"Jesus and the 'Big Questions' "
Read this lecture (pdf)


6 April 2006
Penn State Dickinson School of Law
David Skeel - Samuel Arsht Professor of Corporate Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. 
"Christianity and the (modest) Rule of Law"
 


9 February 2007
Carlisle Theatre / The 2007 Lockhart Lecture
Professor James K. Hoffmeier -
Professor of Old Testament and Ancient Near Eastern History and Archaeology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School.
"The Exodus from Egypt
In Light of New Archaeological Evidence: Myth or Reality?


6 April 2007
Memorial Hall, Old West, Dickinson College
Baruch Maoz -
An American-born Jew who grew  up in Israel. He became a Christian in 1963, while serving in the Israeli army. He has pastored Grace and Truth Christian Congregation in Israel since 1976. Baruch's writings have been published in Hebrew, English, Dutch and German.
"Passover and Jesus
- a Jewish Christian's Point of View"

 
27 October 2007
International Human Trafficking & Enslavement Symposium
A serious consideration of modern slavery ~ the  trafficking, buying and selling of humans ~ as it exists pervasively throughout the world today.
Read about our theological motivations regarding modern human slavery & exploitation
See some scenes from the October 27th, 2007 International Human Trafficking & Enslavement Symposium
 

17 November 2007
Hymn sing & discussion of what makes a good hymn 
Led by Jim Correnti on the piano
 
This was an evening of singing and discussion.




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Note: The John Newton Center believes that a wide variety of Christian viewpoints should be presented and discussed, and does not necessarily endorse all of the views expressed by those invited to present lectures, whether presented at the Newton sponsored lecture or elsewhere.
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