Harvard University

The Thomistic Institute at Harvard University presents a lecture by Prof. Gary Anderson of the University of Notre Dame titled “No Justice without Mercy; No Mercy without Justice.”

Thursday, March 30

5:30 PM

Sever 103

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the Speaker:

Professor Gary Anderson is the Hesburgh Professor of Catholic Theology at Notre Dame University. He holds a B.A. from Albion College, an M.Div. from Duke University, and a Ph.D from Harvard University and previously taught at the University of Virginia and Harvard Divinity School  Prof. Anderson has won numerous awards including most recently grants from the American Philosophical Society, Lilly Endowment and the Institute for Advanced Study at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Prof Anderson’s is well known for his books Sin: A History and Charity: The Place of the Poor in the Biblical Tradition (Yale University Press, 2009 and 2013). His newest book, That I May Dwell among Them: Incarnation and Atonement in the Tabernacle Narrative will appear this coming November. Some recent articles include: “To See Where God Dwells: The Tabernacle, Temple, and the Origins of the Christian Mystical Tradition;” “The Roman Church as Casta Meretrix;” and “God Doesn’t Break Bad in the Old Testament.” Anderson served as President of the Catholic Biblical Association from 2013-14.