News from the Hill February 23, 2007 | back to index
Professor Mark S. Burrows Appointed “Henry Luce III Fellow in Theology” for 2007-08
Dr. Mark S. Burrows, Professor of the History of Christianity, has been awarded the Luce Fellowship in Theology for the coming academic year. Each year this program selects “distinguished scholars from the various theological disciplines whose work has provided theological studies with fresh insight, strong leadership, and significant contributions.”
As a Luce Fellow, Dr. Burrows will be granted a year-long sabbatical during the upcoming academic year in order to pursue his current research, resulting in a book tentatively entitled Untamed Wisdom: The Poetics of Desire and the Renewal of Theology as an Art. The project brings together his research interests in poetics and mysticism, exploring mysticism as a way of knowing in pre-modern Christian theology and the manner in which this tradition continued to flower, with the rise of modernity, among the literary arts.
Dr. Burrows will be teaching courses related to this research during the 2007 Summer Semester at the Kirchliche Hochschule in Wuppertal, Germany. The fellowship will also enable him to lecture and collaborate with other scholars interested in questions raised by this research in Asia, Australia, and Europe.
