Annual Lectures
The Kenneth Willis Clark Lectures
Established in 1984, the Kenneth Willis Clark Lectureship Fund honors the life and work of Reverend Professor Kenneth Willis Clark, a Divinity School faculty member for 36 years. Each year this fund enables the Divinity School to offer a distinguished program with special emphasis on New Testament studies and textual criticism.
The Historical Jesus and the Theological Jesus
The 2008 Kenneth Willis Clark Lectures by Dr. Dale C. Allison Jr.
February 27-28, 2008
The James A. Gray Lectures
These annual lectures, established in 1950 as part of a bequest made in 1947 by James A. Gray of Winston-Salem, N.C., are delivered during the Divinity School Convocation and Pastors’ School.
The Franklin S. Hickman Lectures
This lectureship was established in 1966 as part of a bequest by Mrs. Franklin S. Hickman in memory of her late husband, Dr. Franklin Simpson Hickman, professor of psychology of religion, Duke Divinity School, and dean of the Chapel, Duke University. This lectureship enables the Divinity School to bring practicing ministers of extraordinary qualities to lecture and preach, often in conjunction with Convocation and Pastors’ School, and to participate in Divinity School classes, worship, and informal sessions with students and faculty.
The Jameson Jones Lectures
A legacy of the ninth dean of the Divinity School, the Jameson Jones Fund provides for an annual lecture in the practice of ministry. Occasional seminars in preaching are offered in conjunction with the named lectures.