Baylor University

The Thomistic Institute at Baylor University and the Baylor Honors College present a lecture by Prof. Ulrich Lehner of the University of Notre Dame titled “God Is Not Nice: Rejecting Pop Culture Theology and Discovering the God Worth Living For.”

Alexander Reading Room

Thursday, February 6

4:00 PM

This lecture is free and open to the public.

About the speaker: Ulrich L. Lehner specializes in religious history and theology of the Early Modern period, the Enlightenment, and the 19th century. Among his publications are ten authored books and sixteen edited volumes, including The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Theology, 1600-1800 (Oxford UP: 2016) and Women, Enlightenment, and Catholicism: A Transnational Biographical History (Routledge: 2018). He was selected as a Member and Herodotus Fellow in the School of Historical Studies at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study, a fellow at the Institute for Comparative History of Religious Orders at the University of Eichstätt, Distinguished Fellow at the NDIAS (twice), fellow of the Earhart foundation (twice), and fellow of the Humboldt and Friedrich von Siemens Foundation. In 2014 he was inducted into the European Academy for Sciences and Arts.