{"id":148,"date":"2010-10-19T10:59:46","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T15:59:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/?p=148"},"modified":"2011-02-17T09:32:49","modified_gmt":"2011-02-17T15:32:49","slug":"belden-c-lane-for-2010-j-j-thiessen-lecture-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cmu.ca\/media_archive\/2010\/belden-c-lane-for-2010-j-j-thiessen-lecture-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Belden C. Lane for 2010 J.J. Thiessen Lecture Series"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Author and Professor of Theological Studies Speaks on \u201cFierce Landscapes and Counter-Cultural Spirituality\u201d
\n<\/em><\/strong>For release October 19, 2010
\n<\/em><\/strong>
\nCMU welcomes Belden C. Lane, Professor of Theological Studies at Missouri\u2019s Saint Louis University, as lecturer for the 33rd annual J.J. Thiessen Lecture Series October 19 and 20.<\/p>\n

Lane presents three lectures on the theme \u201cFrom Desert Christians to Mountain Refugees: \u00a0Fierce Landscapes and Counter-Cultural Spirituality \u201d \u2013 a theme that resonates in a province with vast stretches of rugged Canadian Shield country, an inland desert, powerful rivers, and harsh winters that render any landscape \u2018fierce\u201d.<\/p>\n

CMU\u2019s JJ. Thiessen Lecture Series is open to the public and includes the following:
\nOctober 19, 11:00 AM <\/strong>Places on the Edge: The Power of Desert\/Mountain Terrain in Christian Thought
\nOctober 19, 7:30 PM<\/strong> The Counter-Cultural Spirituality of the Desert Fathers for Today
\nOctober 20, 11:00 AM<\/strong> Fire in the Desert: Learning from the Desert Mothers<\/em><\/p>\n

<\/em>Admission is free as a community service offered by CMU. \u00a0Lectures are held in the CMU Chapel at 600 Shaftesbury Boulevard (south campus).<\/p>\n

\u201cBelden Lane is a story-teller, lover of language, and academic,\u201d notes CMU Vice President (External) Terry Schellenberg. \u201cA Presbyterian theologian teaching at a Catholic, Jesuit school at Saint Louis University in Missouri, Lane is writer and thinker who integrates spiritual practice within deeply rooted historical and theological roots. As evidenced in his writings, he is one who imaginatively explores spirituality in its many forms within landscapes of geography, place, and nature.\u201d<\/p>\n

Recipient of many awards and honours, including the Faculty Excellence Award for 2008 by Saint Louis University\u2019s Student Government Association, Lane teaches in the areas of American religion, the history of spirituality, and the connections between geography and faith.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe relationship of Christian spirituality to the wonder and beauty of the natural world is close to my heart,\u201d Lane writes, \u201cwhether seen in the earth-sensitive practices of Celtic spirituality or Calvin and Edwards’ perception of the world as a theater of God’s glory in the Reformed tradition.\u201d<\/p>\n

Author of a large body of published works, Lane\u2019s books include Landscapes of the Sacred<\/em> (Johns Hopkins, 2001), The Solace of Fierce Landscapes <\/em>(Oxford University Press, 1998), and Ravished by Beauty: The Surprising Legacy of Reformed Spirituality<\/em> (Oxford, 2011).<\/p>\n

In addition to writing and teaching, Lane is a revered storyteller and an avid wilderness backpacker who is supremely interested in the area of Desert Spirituality.<\/p>\n

In the J.J. Thiessen Lectures Series, Lane draws from his own work on the symbolic significance of wilderness in Christian spirituality. \u201cIn the history of Christian spirituality, desert and mountain terrain has often been the source (and refuge) of counter-cultural movements,\u201d says Lane. \u00a0\u201cThe Desert Christians in the fourth century went into the desert beyond the Nile, reacting after Constantine to the church\u2019s support of a prosperity theology, gospel of success, and militarism.\u201d Relating to aspects of Anabaptist history, he notes that, \u201cin sixteenth-century Switzerland, Anabaptists hid in barns and fled to caves in the Jura Mountains, questioning the magisterial Reformation in similar ways.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe appeal of fierce landscapes in the Christian life is closely related to its prophetic witness to the dynamism of faith on the margins,\u201d says Lane.
\nFor J.J. Thiessen Lecture Series information, visit www.cmu.ca<\/a> <\/em><\/p>\n

Canadian Mennonite University (CMU) is a Christian university in the Anabaptist tradition, offering undergraduate degrees in arts and science, and such disciplines as business and organizational administration, communications and media, peace and conflict resolution studies, music and music therapy, theology, and church ministries, as well as graduate degrees in Theological Studies and Christian ministry. CMU is a Member of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC)<\/a><\/em>. <\/a><\/p>\n

For further information, contact:
\nNadine Kampen
\nCommunications and Marketing Director
\nnkampen@cmu.ca<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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