The University of Louisville has given the 2011 Grawemeyer Award in Religion to Luke Timothy Johnson, a professor of New Testament and Christian origins at Emory University’s Candler School of Theology, for a 2009 book in which he argued that early Christians had much more in common with their Jewish and pagan neighbors than is commonly appreciated today. Mr. Johnson, a former Benedictine monk, writes in the book, Among the Gentiles: Greco-Roman Religion and Christianity (Yale University Press), that the ancient faiths shared certain ways of being religious regardless of their doctrinal differences. The Grawemeyer Award, which comes with a $100,000 prize, is the last of four awards (music composition, world order, and psychology) created by a Louisville alumnus that were presented this week.
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3 Responses to Bible Scholar at Emory U. Wins Grawemeyer Award in Religion
princeton67 - December 3, 2010 at 3:05 pm
Too bad that the fundamentalists/fanatics – be they Rabbi, Imam, Cardinal, of the surviving religions connected by Professor Johnson will ever read his book.
Francois Therin - October 25, 2011 at 2:16 pm
Many interesting ideas. Who starts first by refusing to send data to the commercial providers of rankings ? ;-)
deutschw - October 31, 2011 at 6:06 am
Interesting ideas — perhaps new in detail but old in general — but I suspect they too will fade away. An issue is why the demand for rankings – among students and others. Students (and their parents and sponsors) — especially international students — often do not have the resources — time, understanding, knowlege, etc. — to dig thru all the information available to make a truly informed decision about a choice of schools. So the easiest way to pick a school from the plethora of choices is to make ranking an important element. And as long as that is true, schools (which at least in the U. S. are often competitive) feel thay have little choice but to try to raise their rank — and continue to complain about the system.