Weltin Lectures

Professor E. G. Weltin retired from full time teaching after a long distinguished career as Professor of Greek and Roman History and Director of the Program in Religious Studies here at Washington University. Upon retirement a lectureship in early Christian history was established in his honor by gifts from his students.

Past Lectures:

Prof. Sidney H. Griffith

"Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Thinkers in Abbasid Baghdad:
Religion and Philosophy in the Circle of the
Jacobite Christian Yahya ibn ‘Adi (893-974)"
Catholic University of America
2-9-09

Prof. Richard A. Horsley

"Jesus as Exorcist and Healer"
University of Massachusetts, Boston
2-18-08

Prof. Bart D. Ehrman

"Lost Gospels and Rediscovered Christianities"
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
4-17-07

Prof. Margaret R. Miles

"Who Are We Really?
A Platonist's Contribution to Christianity"
2-13-06

Prof. Paula Fredriksen

"What Parting of the Ways?
Jews and the Christians in the
Ancient Mediterranean City"
Boston University
4-27-05

Prof. Ross S. Kraemer

"When is a Text About a Woman a Text About a Woman:
Dilemmas of a Feminist Historian of Women's Religions in the
Greco-Roman Mediterranean"
Brown University
10-16-03

Prof. Robin Jensen

"The Image of the Invisible God in Early Christian Art"
Andover Newton Theological School in Massachusetts
10-31-02

Dr. Steve Friesen

"Poverty and Social Status in Paul's Churches:
Prospects for a Demography of Pauline Mission"
University of Missouri-Columbia
04-09-02

Prof. J. Patout Burns

"Divine Sovereignty and Human Agency in
the Theology of St. Augustine"
Vanderbilt University
11-16-00