HARVARD UNIVERSITY

    TITLE: Alonzo L. McDonald Family Professorship of Evangelical Theological Studies       1998-Perpetuity

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Visiting Professors:

        Mark A. Noll, Wheaton College, University of Notre Dame

        N. T. Wright, Theological Canon of Westminster Abbey, Bishop of Durham      

        William J. Abraham, Southern Methodist University

Tenured Professor:

        David N. Hempton, University of Belfast, Boston University

                                (2007-2008 HDS Teacher of the Year)

EMORY UNIVERSITY

    TITLE: McDonald Family Chair in the Study of Jesus and Culture

    SUBTITLE: A Distinguished Visiting University Professorship on the Person and Teachings 

                        of Jesus and Their Impact on Culture

                  McDonald Chair Initial Animator for Provost Office

                        Luke Timothy Johnson, Emory University

McDonald Visiting Professors:

        Jaroslav Pelikan; Yale University

                “Impact on Slavic World”

        John T. Noonan; Ninth U.S. Current Court of Appeals

                “Impact on Law”

        Alice Parker; Composer, Conductor

                “Impact on Music”

        Wayne Meeks; Yale University

                “Impact on History”

            Early Christian Centuries

EMORY LAW SCHOOL

    TITLE: Alonzo L. McDonald Family Foundation Distinguished Professor of Law and Religion

John Witte, Jr., Emory University

            “Impact on Religious Freedom”; Christian Foundation

                of Religious Freedom and Rule of Law

Herbert L. Kessler, John Hopkins University

            “Impact on Art”; Competing Faces of Christ and the

                Emergence of an Authentic Portrait

Stanley Balmer, Barnard College, Columbia University

            “Impact on Politics”; Religion and the American Presidency

David C. Steinmetz, Duke University

            “Biblical Leadership in Early Modern Europe: Luther and Calvin”

Beauty Maenzanise, Africa University

            “Towards an African Theology of Mission:

            A Case of Zimbabwe Methodist Church”

James Carroll, Suffolk University, Boston Globe

         “Jesus Against Himself:  From Itinerant Galilean To Christ

          of God and Back Again”

John Witte, Jr., Emory University

        (Multiple Teacher of the Year Awardee)

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