The Annual Dunning Memorial Lecture
The Annual Dunning Memorial Lecture
The annual Dunning Memorial Lecture is made possible by the first endowment gift ever given to St. Mary’s Ecumenical Institute. It came in the first years of the Ecumenical Institute (1971-72) as a gift of J. Fitzgerald Dunning, one of the EI’s first Honorary Directors. From that first lecture in 1972 until the present, a parade of distinguished Dunning lecturers have contributed to the increase of ecumenical and interfaith understanding.
| 2022 | Romero and the Preferential Option for the Poor: An Ecumenical Praxis | Edgardo Colón-Emeric |
| 2021 | The Mission of the Holy Son Into an Unholy World | Katherine Sonderegger |
| 2019 | Interpreting the Gospel of John: Writing a Commentary in Good Company | Marianne Meye Thompson |
| 2018 | Saving Christianity from the Racial State | Willie James Jennings |
| 2017 | Where are the Nail Prints? Luther’s Road to Reformation Faith and What it Means for Us Today | Timothy George |
| 2017 | Liberty and the Things of God: Christian Origins of Religious Freedom | Robert Louis Wilken |
| 2015 | The Puzzles of the Cross: Ancient Texts, Contemporary Challenge | N. T. Wright |
| 2014 | Theology as a Way of Life | Rowan Williams |
| 2013 | Jesus as Remembered by John | James D.G. Dunn |
| 2012 | The Death of the Messiah: Theology, Spirituality, Politics | Michael J. Gorman |
| 2011 | Do Muslims & Christians Worship the Same God? | Miroslav Volf |
| 2010 | Divine Sovereignty, Community & Care | Ellen Davis |
| 2009 | Torture & Christians | George Hunsinger |
| 2008 | Justification & Justice | Michael J. Gorman |
| 2007 | Jesus & Judaism: The Connection Still Matters | Amy-Jill Levine |
| 2006 | What Are We To Think of the Gospel of Judas? | Craig A. Evans |
| 2004 | Remembering Jesus: What the Quest of the Historical Jesus Forgot | James D.G. Dunn |
| 2004 | Just Peacemaking in the 21st Century | Glen H. Stassen |
| 2002 | Modern Religious Fundamentalisms & Violence | Martin E. Marty |
| 2001 | The Death of the Messiah & the Destruction of the Temple | John R. Donahue, S.J. |
| 2000 | Jesus’ Resurrection & Christian Origins | N.T. Wright |
| 1999 | On Being a Christian & an American | Stanley Hauerwas |
| 1998 | Tradition in Slow Motion | Jaroslav Pelikan |
| 1997 | The Authority of the New Testament in Christian Ethics | Richard B. Hays |
| 1996 | The Circle of 12 Disciples: A Creation of Jesus or of the Early Church? | John P. Meier |
| 1995 | The Afrocentric Idea in Ecumenical Dialogue | Cheryl J. Sanders |
| 1994 | Christian Social Witness | John Howard Yoder |
*no lecture was held in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic