Paul Tillich Lecture: James Carroll

Date: 

Wednesday, April 30, 2014, 7:30pm

Location: 

The Memorial Church Sanctuary

James CarrollJames Carroll, award winning author and columnist for The Boston Globe, will deliver the 2014 Paul Tillich Lecture, entitled  “Tillich, Bonhoeffer, and the Future of Jesus Christ.”

Read “Who Am I To Judge?” — James Carroll’s recent profile of Pope Francis for The New Yorker.

James Carroll is author of ten novels and seven works of non-fiction, including the National Book Award winning An American Requiem; the New York Times bestselling Constantine’s Sword, now an acclaimed documentary; House of War, which won the first PEN-Galbraith Award; and Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World, which was named a 2011 Best Book by Publishers Weekly. His Boston Globe columns were honored with the 2012 Scripps Howard Award for Best Commentary. He lectures widely, both in the United States and abroad. In 2014, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt will publish his eleventh novel, Warburg in Rome, and Viking will publish Christ Actually: The Son of God for The Secular Age, his eighth work of non-fiction.

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