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J. J. Thiessen Lectures
Audio (mp3) and Video Files
Digitized by the CMU Library
Founded in 1978 by Canadian Mennonite Bible College, the J. J. Thiessen Lectures are named in honour of a founder and long-time chairperson of the CMBC Board. The lectures seek to bring to the Canadian Mennonite University community something of his breadth of vision for the church.
1978 — Marlin E. Miller (1938–1994), Mennonites and Contemporary Theology
1979 — Lectures cancelled.
1980 — J. Gerald Janzen (1932– ), The Terrors of History and the Fear of the Lord
1981 — Frank H. Epp (1929–1986), Mennonites with the Millennium on Their Mind
1982 — Jürgen Moltmann (1926– ), Responsibility for the World and Christian Discipleship
1983 — Cornelius J. Dyck (1921–2014), Rethinking the Anabaptist Vision
1984 — Kenneth Bailey (1930–2016), Jesus Interprets His Own Cross: A Middle Eastern Cultural Approach
1985 — Orlando E. Costas (1942–1987), The Crisis of Mission in the West and the Challenge of World Missions
- The Crisis of the Modern Missionary Movement and the Collapse of Christendom
- Divergence and Solidarity in the Church of the Southern Hemisphere: The Emergence of a New Missiological Agenda
- The Poor: A Biblical and Theological Reflection
- The Church’s Mission and the Preferential Option for the Poor
1986 — Susan Muto (1942– ), Christian Spirituality and Everyday Living: A Practical Approach to Faith Formation
1987 — Walter Klaassen (1926– ), The Emancipated Laity: Anabaptism in Its Time
1988 — W. Sibley Towner (1933–2018), The Bible and Our Human Nature
1989 — Stanley Hauerwas (1940– ), Resident Aliens: The Church and its Ministry
1990 — Werner O. Packull (1941– ), Rereading Anabaptist Beginnings
- Origins — Religious or Social?
- Persecution — Provocation or Innocent Suffering?
- Finding the Promised Land — Sixteenth Century Moravia
- Congregation of God — Ideal and Reality
1991 — I. Howard Marshall (1934–2015), The Theological Message of the Letter to the Philippians
- The Church at Philippi
- Jesus Christ is Lord
- Life in Christ
- Fellowship and Growth in the Church
1992 — George A. Lindbeck (1923–2018), The Church as Hermeneutical Community: Jesus, Christians, and the Bible
1993 — Phyllis A. Bird (1934– ), Feminism and the Bible: A Critical and Constructive Encounter
1994 — David Augsburger (1938– ), Shepherding, Reconciling, Healing: The Church and Christian Counselling
1995 — George A. Rawlyk (1935–1995), Is Jesus Your Personal Saviour? In Search of Canadian Evangelicalism in the 1990s
1996 — Nancey Murphy (1951– ), Christian Faith in a Scientific Age
1997 — Richard B. Hays (1948– ), New Testament Ethics: The Story Retold
1998 — Eugene H. Peterson (1932– ), Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places
- Clearing the Field for Christ
- Christ in Creation
- Christ in History
- Christ in Community
1999 — Ted D. Regehr (1937– ), Peace, Order & Good Government: Mennonites & Politics in Canada
- Mennonites and Secular Government: An Overview
- Special Privileges and Democratic Participation: Mennonites and the Emergence of a Protestant Consensus in Nineteenth-century Ontario
- Rebuilding the Prairie West: Mennonites and Agrarian Socialism
- Delusions Complete or Partial: Have Mennonite Politicians Made a Difference?
2000 — William P. Brown (1958– ), God and the Imagination: A Primer to Reading the Psalms in an Age of Pluralism
2001 — Letty M. Russell (1929–2007), Practising God’s Hospitality in a World of Difference
- Introduction: Practicing God’s Hospitality
- God’s Pentecostal Gift of Understanding
Hot House Ecclesiology- The Spirituality of Not Giving Up
2002 — Seán Freyne (1935–2013), Jesus, Jews, and Galilee
2003 — Paul G. Hiebert (1932–2007), Doing Missional Theology
2004 — Peter C. Erb (1943– ), Late Medieval Spirituality and the Sources for Peace and Reconciliation: Bridget of Sweden, Catherine of Siena, Julian of Norwich
- Public Worship as the Foundation of Peace.
- Private Revelation and Practical Peacemaking.
- Pax Romana: When the Centre Falters.
- Suffering & Peace: A Broken Church, Divided Christendom, &
even Christians
2005 — Paul J. Griffiths (1955– ), Curiosity: Towards a Theology of Intellectual Appetite
- Curiosity as a Vice: An Augustinian View.
- Owning & Controlling Knowledge: A Theological Critique.
- Discipline, Mastery, Novelty: The Modern University.
- Studiousness: How (and What) Christians should Want to Know.
2006 — Joel James Shuman (1958– ), To Live is to Worship: Bioethics and the Body of Christ
- What We Cannot NOT Do
- Archai, Exousiai, Iatroi? Naming Medicine among the Principalities and Powers
- Baptism, Communion and the Body
- Burial and the Body
2007 — Ellen F. Davis (1950– ), Live Long on the Land: Food and Farming in Biblical Perspective
- Hebrew Scriptures and the Land
- Reading the Bible Through Agrarian Eyes
- Learning from the Land
- Wisdom or Sloth: The Character of Work
2008 — Mark Noll (1946– ), A Yankee Looks At Christianity In Canada
2009 — Peter Ochs (1950– ), The Free Church and Israel’s Covenant
2010 — Belden C. Lane (1943– ), Desert Spirituality and Cultural Resistance: From Ancient Monks to Mountain Refugees
2011 — Peter Widdicombe, Scripture and the Christian Imagination: Text, Doctrine, and Artistic Representation in the Early Church and Beyond
2012 — Beverly Roberts Gaventa (1948– ), From Powerlessness to Praise in Paul’s Letter to the Romans
- Unable to Help Ourselves
- The God of Peace Makes War [corrupt audio file]
- Let All the People Say
Amen! [corrupt audio file]
2013 — P. Travis Kroeker (1957– ), Mennonites and Mammon: Economies of Desire in a Post-Christian World
2014 — John Swinton (1957– ), Becoming Friends of Time: Disability, Timefulness and Gentle Discipleship
2015 — Darren T. Dochuk, Crude Awakenings: The Faith, Politics, and Crises of Oil in American’s Century
2016 — J. Richard Middleton (1955– ), The Silence of Abraham, The Passion of Job: Explorations in the Theology of Lament
2017 — C. Arnold Snyder (1946– ), Faith and Toleration: A Reformation Debate Revisited
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