Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology

Established in 1993, the program of the Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology supports the research of junior and senior scholars whose projects offer significant and innovative contributions to theological studies. The program seeks to foster excellence in theological scholarship, and to strengthen the links among theological research, churches, and wider publics.

The program is administered by the Association of Theological Schools, the accrediting and program agency for graduate theological education in the United States and Canada. Its 235 member institutions are Catholic, Orthodox, and Protestant schools of theology, including freestanding seminaries and university-related divinity schools.

Full-time faculty members at ATS-accredited and candidate schools are eligible to apply. Each fellowship provides up to $75,000 of salary replacement and research funds during a sabbatical year. Applications for fellowships in 2009-2010 must be received in the office of the Association of Theological Schools by December 1, 2008.

Guidelines for Henry Luce III Fellows in Theology can be found at the Association for Theological Schools’ website (www.ats.edu). To request an application, please email your name, ATS school name, and preferred email address to grants@ats.edu. For additional information about this competitive program, please contact its administrator, Dr. Stephen Graham (phone: 412-788-6505, ext. 251, email: graham@ats.edu).

Since the program's inception, 105 faculty members in ATS schools have been named Luce Fellows. The three most recently selected groups are named below.

2008-2009 Henry Luce III Theology Fellows

Douglas E. Burton-Christie
Loyola Marymount University Department of Theological Studies
The Gift of Tears: Contemplative Ecology and the Renewal of the Earth

Margot E. Fassler
Yale University Divinity School
Church and Cosmos: Hildegard’s Scivias and Related Chants, Drama, and Illuminations

Carole R. Fontaine
Andover Newton Theological School
The Gazelle, the Tree and the Goddess: Visual Theology in the Song of Songs, Biblical Israel and Today

Arun Wayne Jones
Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary
Brown and White: The Emergence of Protestantism in North India, 1800 - 1980

Demetrios S. Katos
Holy Cross Greek Orthodox School of Theology
Advocating the Theological Alternative: Palladius of Helenopolis and the Origenist Tradition

Elizabeth Newman
Baptist Theological Seminary at Richmond
Attending to the Wounds on Christ’s Body: The Politics of Teresa’s Ecclesial Vision

Allen D. Verhey
Duke University Divinity School
"Ars Moriendi": Jesus' Death and a Christian's Dying

2007-2008 Henry Luce III Theology Fellows

Lewis Ayres
Candler School of Theology of Emory University
The Giver of Life: The Spirit and Christian Life in Nicene Theology

Hans Boersma
Regent College
Ressourcement: The Quest for a Sacramental Ontology

William Patrick Brown
Columbia Theological Seminary
The Seven Ways of Creation: A Field Guide to the Ancient Cosmologies

Mark S. Burrows
Andover Newton Theological School
Untamed Wisdom: Poetics of Desire and the Renewal of Theology as an Art

Amy M. Hollywood
Harvard University, The Divinity School
Acute Melancholia: On Loss, Mourning, and Mysticism

Jennifer Wright Knust
Boston University School of Theology
Loose Texts, Loose Women: A History of Jesus, an Adulteress, and the Gospel of John

Maura A. Ryan
University of Notre Dame
Health, Development and Human Rights: New Directions for Christian Bioethics

2006-2007 Henry Luce III Theology Fellows

Jerome P. Baggett
Jesuit School of Theology at Berkeley
Sense of the Faithful: An End and Beginning of American Catholicism

D. Bruce Hindmarsh
Regent College
The Roots of Evangelical Spirituality: A Historical Conversation

Kevin Madigan
Harvard University, The Divinity School
Apostle of Doubt, Apostle of Faith: Thomas in the History of Western Christianity, 200-1500

Otto A. Maduro
Drew University Theological School
The Role of Pentecostal Congregations in the Creative Adaptation of Hispanic Immigrants to the United States

Gene Outka
Yale University Divinity School
The Ethics of Love and the Problem of Abortion

Gabriel Said Reynolds
University of Notre Dame
Reading the Qur'an in Light of a Jewish-Christian-Islamic Tradition

Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza
Harvard University, The Divinity School
The Rhetoric of Empire and Ekklesia in the Pauline Tradition