Notre Dame Professor of Philosophy to Deliver Lecture Honoring Richard Bell
For Immediate Release
November 6, 2003
WOOSTER, Ohio - The Rev. David R. Burrell, C.S.C., the Theodore Hesburgh Professor
of Philosophy and Theology at The University of Notre Dame, will
lead a discussion and deliver a lecture to honor the storied career
of Richard H. Bell at The College of Wooster on Monday, Nov. 10.
Both events are free and open to the public.
A scholar of comparative theology as well as philosophical theology
in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, Burrell will lead an informal
discussion on the topic of "Maimonides and Jewish Philosophy" at
4 p.m. in Room 100 of Scovel Hall (944 College Mall). A reception
in the main lobby at 3:30 p.m. will precede the event, which is
sponsored by The College of Wooster's Department of Philosophy,
The Lilly Project (made possible by Lilly Endowment, Inc.), and
Hillel. Burrell's lecture, titled "Faith, Culture, and Reason: Analogous
Language and Truth," begins at 8 p.m. in Room 105 of Scovel Hall,
following a dessert reception at 7:30 p.m. in the main lobby.
Burrell is the author of eight books, including Friendship and
Ways to Truth (2000), Original Peace: Restoring God's Creations
with Elena Malits (1997), Freedom and Creation in Three Traditions
(1993), and Knowing the Unknowable God (1986). He earned
his B.A. at Notre Dame, his S.T.L. at Gregorian University in Rome,
and his Ph.D. at Yale. He received Woodrow Wilson, Fulbright, and
Kent Fellowships, and was a Visiting Fellow at Perkins School of
Theology and Institut Dominicain des Etudes Orientales. Professionally,
he is a member of several organizations, including the Society for
the Study of Islamic Philosophy and Science, the Society of Christian
Philosophers, and the American Philosophical Association. In addition,
he is a member and former board member of the Society for Values
in Higher Education.
Bell, the Frank Halliday Ferris Professor of Philosophy and a member of Wooster's faculty since 1969, is an expert in the philosophy of religion (with special interests in Ludwig Wittgenstein, Simone Weil, and Sēren Kierkegaard), African philosophy, aesthetics, and the philosophy of language. He received his B.A. from Vanderbilt University (1960) and his B.D. in Theology from Yale Divinity School (1964) before securing a M.A. (1966) and Ph.D. (1968) from Yale University.
Bell has edited and written seven books, including The Grammar
of The Heart, Simone Weil's Philosophy of Culture, Seeds of the
Spirit: Wisdom of the 20th Century (with Barbara Batton), and
Simone Weil: The Way of Justice as Compassion. His most recent
book, Understanding African Philosophy: A Cross-cultural Approach
to Classical and Contemporary Issues, was published in 2002.
He has also edited a special issue of the journal Philosophical
Papers, titled African Philosophy and the Analytic Tradition,
which was published in 2002. In addition, he is a member of the
American Weil Society, the American Academy of Religion, the Ohio
Philosophical Society, the International Development Ethics Association
(IDEA), and the Sēren Kierkegaard Society. He also served as dean
of the Wooster Clergy Academy of Religion for more than a decade.
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