Westminster Lectures in Contemporary Theology
Special Event—April 20 and 21

Westminster’s newly established Lectureship in Contemporary Theology will offer an inaugural program dealing with the church and environmental concerns on April 20
and 21, featuring Dr. Holmes Rolston, Professor, Author, Environmental Ethicist, as speaker. Delivering the first series of Westmonster Lectures, he will challenge his Charlottesville audiences to consider how faith plays a role in preserving the planet.

Professor Rolston, an ordained Presbyterian minister and Virginia native, is the Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Colorado State University. He has focused his studies on interfaces between science and religion, and on the field of environmental ethics, which he established.  As an internationally recognized scholar, he has published numerous books and articles in these fields; he was recently honored as the Gifford Lecturer at the University of Edinburgh (1997) and was the recipient of the Templeton Prize in Science and Religion (2003). 

Rolston will give sermons at the 8:30 & 11:00 services on Sunday, April 20, titled "Christians, Wildlife, Winldlands". Sunday evening, April 20, he will be delivering a lecture titled "Caring for Creation" (a reception to follow). His final presentation on Monday, April 21, is titled "Human Uniqueness, Human Responsibility".

Presentations will be free and open to the Westminster and Charlottesville communities.