Professor Werner Jeanrond is to preach the Hulsean Sermon on Sunday, 14 February in the University Church, Great St Mary's, at 11.15 a.m.
The Hulsean Sermon, to be preached on 'The Truth and Excellence of Revealed Religion, or the Evidence of Christianity', originates in the will of John Hulse, of St John's College, who died in 1790.
Werner Jeanrond has been Master of St Benet's Hall in Oxford since 2012, the first lay-person to hold the post. He studied theology, German, and pedagogics at the Universities of Regensburg and Saarbrucken before going to Chicago as a Fulbright Scholar to complete a PhD.
Subsequently his career has included appointments at Trinity College Dublin, the University of Lund and the University of Glasgow (where he held the 1640 Chair of Divinity) and he has held or holds a number of visiting professorships and lectureships.
Professor Jeanrond teaches contemporary systematic theology, hermeneutics, theological method and German literature. He researches the theological virtues of love, hope, and faith within a global and pluralistic religious and cultural context and he is also interested in the conditions and methods of theological thinking and the contributions which Christian theology might make to the study of the relational nature and vocation of the human person.
Werner Jeanrond's publications include A Theology of Love (2010), Call and Response: The Challenge of Christian Life (1995) and Theological Hermeneutics: Development and Significance (1991).
All are welcome and there will be a wine-reception in Michaelhouse afterwards for those present.
Members of the University attending should wear their gowns.